Answer:
Known as a great deceiver, It is evil's incarnation, Once used for veneration, The root of all procreation. All you can do is shiver, When it begins to slither.
A darkΒ-colored creature serenaded by Lennon and McCartney.
When I'm metal or wood, I help you get home. When I'm flesh and I'm blood. In the darkness I roam.
Oh how I love my dancing feet! They stay together - oh so neat. And when I want to walk a line, They all stay together and do double time. I count them up, ten times or more, And race on-off, across the floor.
A warrior amongs the flowers, He bears a thrusting sword. Able and ready to use, To guard his golden hoard.
I hold two meanings. With one I may be broken, with the other I hold on. What am I?