Sun sheds its skin like a snake:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3226844.stm

Solar cycles move like snakes:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/SSN_Predict_NASA.gif

The Stanford scientists have both identified new structures in the interior of the Sun and clarified the form of previously discovered ones. Understanding their relationship to solar activity will require more observations and time for analysis.
"At this point, we do not know whether the plasma streams snake around like the jet stream on Earth, or whether it is a less dynamic feature," said Dr. Douglas Gough, of Cambridge University, UK.


My precioussssssss