Mozart Chronicles: The Pink Slug

Slugs are descended from snails and more properly are just snails who have lost their shell. They are mollusks and also referred to as 'molluscans.' They are blind for the most part but can detect light and dark. There are many kinds of slugs living on land and in the sea some with beauty to rival the most beautiful flower. The vision of the many antennaed pink slug Mozart sent me is not so unrealistic as sea slugs do exist with many, many antennae and of as many hues as the visible spectrum (as far as we know). I believe the many glowing antennae symbolized the number of years he had lived in his rainforest home, here only about ten or so appear in this illustration.


Slugs were used in divination by various cultures and also symbolized writing because of the curvy, curious trails they leave. They are a symbol of the Hermetic Path, the ancient way of alchemists, mystics and such.