The Inexorable Pull of Life

The snails are some sort of medieval in-joke that is just completely or we wouldn't even get it even if it was explained to us now. There's a more popular theory that it represents what happened to the Lombards after they lost a crucial battle and were stripped of their military power but still had political power. John Connington sees them as having huge amounts of wealth carried on their body because where else are they gonna put it? The resurrection is thrown in there is tossed about as an idea because hey Christianity is ubiquitous the resurrections ubiquitous from from knighthood European medieval times.