The snake was associated with the goddess as the holy animal, and this was quite natural. To let you follow, I have to begin far back, though. Women give birth to new life, which is a mystery of highest rank to this day, so it is near at hand that the divine power was associated with the female. This fact is known from ancient literature, but was challenged by modern scientists as it is evidently not true. But modern women found out that this is due to the artificial light available nowadays.
Every woman can easily switch back to synchronization by simulating moonlight with a bedroom lamp.
And indeed synchronisation works within one to three months. Now the moon is the perfect example of a cyclic change. He grows, diminishes, dies and is born again. Three days he stays in the underworld, and here you got the magic formula known from our Lord Jesus. But this formula is much older than Jesus, it is used in conjunction with many rituals associated with death and rebirth, which is very important to agricultural societies being dependent on the fertility of the earth.