THREE ANIMALS. At the center of the wheel one finds three animals -- a pig, a snake and a rooster. The pig symbolizes greed and ignorance and stupidity, the snake anger and hatred and the rooster lust and desire and delusion. The three animals are often shown biting each others tails, to show that these evils are inseparably connected. The emotions of the three stem from fundamental ignorance. Together, the triad represents the root causes of trouble on earth.