Ouroboros: the serpent eats its tail


	Ouroboros: the serpent eats its tail

abailart

4-22-2008 5:08 AM

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4-22-2008 1:13 PM

willhelm

Wikipedia:

The Ouroboros, also spelled Ourorboros, Oroborus, UroborosUroborus (pronounced /ˌjʊəroʊˈbɒrəs/ or /ʊˈrɒbɔrɔs/), is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. It has been used to represent many things over the ages, but it most generally symbolizes ideas of cyclicality, unity, or infinity. The ouroboros has been important in religious and mythological symbolism, but has also been frequently used in alchemical illustrations. More recently, it has been interpreted by psychologists, such as Carl Jung, as having an archetypical significance to the human psyche. or
The name [i]ouroboros...

4-22-2008 1:48 PM

carrerinyes

Love those sites, Abailart.

4-22-2008 3:40 PM

bignosemousie

I've always thought this would be a cool tattoo.

4-23-2008 12:59 AM

Deepti

interesting

4-23-2008 3:31 PM

tmtx76

Actually, it does make a really good tattoo. Check out my mog profile mog.com/tmtx . That's on my shoulder blade. I would've just added it here as a picture but I don't have a good photo with me at work.

4-23-2008 3:36 PM

tmtx76

As an addendum it has also been called Jormungandr by the Norse as the world dragon that will fight Loki. The version I chose was an alchemical design of infinity.

4-24-2008 3:07 PM

bignosemousie

Looks nice, tmtx. Thanks for sharing that.

5-8-2008 3:38 PM

ramsesemerson

hehe red dwarf

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