Ouroboros is an ancient symbol used in cultures around the world. It depicts a snake swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. The image of the Uroboros appears in the cultures of ancient Egypt, China, Mesoamerica, and also in European and West African cultures. The Ouroboros is seen as early as 1600 BC in Egypt. From there the ancient Phoenicians and Greeks adopted the symbol and called it Ouroboros, which literally translates to "devourer of the tail." of Loki and Angrboda, it was so large that it encircles the Earth. He guarded the Tree of Life and is often depicted as an Ouroboros. In Mesoamerican culture, the serpent god Quetzalcoatl is sometimes depicted biting his own tail on Aztec and Toltec ruins. Quetzalcoatl is carved into the base of the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, in Xochicalco, Mexico, dated 700-900 AD. In Hindu culture, Ouroboros is represented as the dragon surrounding the tortoise supporting four elephants carrying the Earth. Christianity also adopted the symbol as a representation of the material nature of our world, the transitory and self-consuming nature of existence. the physician-philosopher Sir Thomas Browne in his Letter to a Friend of about 1657 linked the symbol of the Ouroboros with the idea of eternal recurrence thus: "That the first day should be the last, that the serpent's tail should return in his mouth at that very moment, and they should end on the day of their Nativity, is indeed an extraordinary coincidence, which although astrology has wittily endeavored to resolve, yet has been very cautious in making predictions of i..... . half of the card ......body of parthenogenesis or self-fertilization. As a cyclical representation of an already powerful symbol, the Ourboros depicts time, especially eternity, and is a form of infinity of all things, which begin and end with chaos. Ouroboros presents us with the element of order and peace in the midst of this chaos. Another view is that the Ouroboros is a representation of the eternal return, the fall of spirit in what we call the physical world and its return to the spirit world. Nature constantly revisits its own rebirth with its cyclical patterns of the seasons; therefore, every ending contains the seed of a new beginning. It is understood that the Uroboros includes all recurring systems in nature; unity, multiplicity and return to unity; evolution and devolution; birth, growth, increase, decrease, life and death.
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