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11-7-2006 2:52 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e2275b76-18cd-429f-b8cd-eb2788e04822/7D11D3ED-58FC-4AA8-B540-2F7CEF6346E0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ouroboros&oldid=85765192" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ouroboros&oldid=85765192" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ouroboros&oldid=85765192"><P>The <B>Ouroboros</B> (also spelled <B>Oroborus</B>, <B>Uroboros</B> or <B>Uroborus</B>) is an ancient <A title="Symbol" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol">symbol</A> depicting a <A title="Snake" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake">serpent</A> or <A title="European%20dragon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_dragon">dragon</A> swallowing its own <A title="Tail" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail">tail</A> and forming a <A title="Circle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle">circle</A>. It has been used to represent many things over the ages, but it most generally symbolizes ideas of <A title="Social%20cycle%20theory" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory">cyclicality</A> and primordial unity. The ouroboros has been important in religious and mythological symbolism, but has also been frequently used in <A title="Alchemy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy">alchemical</A> illustrations. In the last century, it has been interpreted by psychologists such as <A title="Carl%20Jung" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung">Carl Jung</A> as having an <A title="Archetype" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetype">archetypal</A> significance to the human <A title="Psyche%20%28psychology%29" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_%28psychology%29">psyche</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ouroboros&oldid=85765192"><P>The name <I>ouroboros</I> (or, in Latinized form, <I>uroborus</I>) is Greek <SPAN class="Unicode">οὐροβóρος</SPAN>, "tail-devourer". The depiction of the serpent is believed to have been inspired by the <A title="Milky%20Way" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way">Milky Way</A>, as some ancient texts refer to a serpent of light residing in the heavens. <SUP class="noprint" title="The%20text%20in%20the%20vicinity%20of%20this%20tag%20needs%20citation.">[<A title="Wikipedia:Citing%20sources" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources"><I>citation needed</I></A>]</SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ouroboros&oldid=85765192"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/9AB7A0DE-5042-44EB-A513-1548CA80CC42" alt="An image drawn in 1478 by one Theodoros Pelecanos in an alchemical tract entitled Synosius." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ouroboros&oldid=85765192"><DIV class="thumbcaption">
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