This ritual implement is ensconced in my cabinet of curiosities, where it has been carefully warded by protective sigils. Discovered during an archaeological dig in Central America supervised by Prof. Joseph Broers of Miskatonic Unversity, the item is one of a number of anomalous artefacts which appear to have been produced by a hitherto unknown - yet vastly ancient (and possibly prehuman) - civilization. In light of which, Prof. Broers has subsequently remarked that the object resembles ritual implements described in certain spurious tomes of arcane lore currently held under lock-and-key in the special collections of the Miskatonic Unversity Library.
Prof Broers also informs me that the item may well have been used in acts of ritual sacrifice in honour of the primordial snake-deity Yig, supposedly worshipped by (and progenitor of) the fabled Serpent Folk of lost Valusia. Whatever the truth of the matter, when the aperture at the back of the head of the item’s snake-like visage is blown through, it produces a strange and sibilant hissing noise. People who hear that sound claim to have been haunted for days afterward by dreams of lithe, scaly, and serpentine things, long buried in a state of hibernation deep beneath the earth, but coming to a state of wakefulness, and seeking to reclaim the surface world which, untold millions of years previously, they called home...
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