Ouroboros

a symbol that depicts a snake or dragon eating its own tail, usually -ssociated with some religious groups or old age practices such as alchemy. it was said the symbol was dicovered on the silk road and was named by greek travelers.
ouroboros would make an awesome tattoo.
a circular symbol of a snake or dragon devouring its tail, standing for infinity or wholeness.
he had the mark of the ouroboros on his hand.
an ancient symbol frequently used in alchemical ill-strations to symbolize the circular nature of the alchemist’s opus. often represents self-reflexitivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly recreating itself thus ill-strating the nietzschean concept of eternal recurrence.
hey look at that ouroboros that carl jung ill-strated.
a symbol of a dragon eating it’s own tail and meaning that it is a self sustaing everlasting creature. the ouroboros symbol first originated in the egyptian book of the dead. it is also used by greeks and alchemist.
if something recycles it relates to the ouroboros
the act of self f-ll-t–. named after the serpent that eats its own tail, the ouroboros is generally regarded as an act of extreme self-loathing.
“this said, his guilty hand pluck’d his piece, and as the grim ouroboros he did feast.”
— shakespeare, the rape of lucrece.
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