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The Ouroboros Ring

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There are ouroboros types in which 1 creature forms a ring and consumes itself, and types in which 2 creatures form a ring and consume each other. In the 2-creature type, 1 has a plain appearance with nothing added (though some versions wear a crown), while the other 1 has 1 crown, 1 pair of wings, and 1 pair of limbs. Snakes symbolize “death and rebirth” and “immortality” through shedding skin and growing large, and their strong vitality enduring prolonged starvation. A snake eating its own tail thus gained symbolic meaning as something complete without beginning or end. In Hellenistic cultural regions such as Alexandria in late antiquity, it expressed ideas that world creation was all and one, perfection, and the world spirit. In alchemy, used to symbolize the union of opposites (such as yin and yang). Carl Gustav Jung regarded it as symbolizing archetypes of the human psyche. Its meanings also broadly include cyclicality (vicious cycles/eternal return), continuity (eternity/circular motion/death and rebirth/destruction and creation), primordiality (the origin of the universe), infinity (immortality), and perfection (omniscience and omnipotence); it has been used in many cultures and religions. https://scrapbox.io/files/65a5ee76421cae00236b23c6.png

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