I wonder if the design of the prop is a Vancouver film industry in-joke. On Stargate, the Jaffa serpent guards wore cobra-shaped helmets with glowing red eyes.
The animated version is the same.
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“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass