Ragnar later has a son with another woman named Kráka and this son is born with the image of a white snake in one eye. The serpent is slain by Ragnar Lodbrok who marries Þóra. In the legends of Ragnar Lodbrok, such as Ragnarssona þáttr, the Geatish king Herraud gives a small lindworm as a gift to his daughter Þóra Town-Hart after which it grows into a large serpent which encircles the girl's bower and bites itself in the tail. In Norse mythology, the ouroboros appears as the serpent Jörmungandr, one of the three children of Loki and Angrboda, which grew so large that it could encircle the world and grasp its tail in its teeth. Seal of the Theosophical Society, founded 1875 Ī 15th-century alchemical manuscript, The Aurora Consurgens, features the ouroboros, where it is used among symbols of the sun, moon, and mercury. The chrysopoeia ouroboros of Cleopatra the Alchemist is one of the oldest images of the ouroboros to be linked with the legendary opus of the alchemists, the philosopher's stone. Its black and white halves may perhaps represent a Gnostic duality of existence, analogous to the Taoist yin and yang symbol. The famous ouroboros drawing from the early alchemical text, The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra ( Κλεοπάτρας χρυσοποιία), probably originally dating to the 3rd century Alexandria, but first known in a 10th-century copy, encloses the words hen to pan ( ἓν τὸ πᾶν), "the all is one". 400 CE) describes the ouroboros as a twelve-part dragon surrounding the world with its tail in its mouth.
In Gnosticism, a serpent biting its tail symbolised eternity and the soul of the world. Gnosticism and alchemy Early alchemical ouroboros illustration with the words ἓν τὸ πᾶν ("The All is One") from the work of Cleopatra the Alchemist in MS Marciana gr. The jar belonged to the neolithic Yangshao culture which occupied the area along the basin from 5000 to 3000 BCE. China Īn early example of an ouroboros (as a purely artistic representation) was discovered in China, on a piece of pottery in the Yellow River basin. The 4th-century CE Latin commentator Servius was aware of the Egyptian use of the symbol, noting that the image of a snake biting its tail represents the cyclical nature of the year. The symbol persisted from Egyptian into Roman times, when it frequently appeared on magical talismans, sometimes in combination with other magical emblems. The ouroboros appears elsewhere in Egyptian sources, where, like many Egyptian serpent deities, it represents the formless disorder that surrounds the orderly world and is involved in that world's periodic renewal. Ouroboros swallowing its tail based on Moskowitz's symbol for the constellation Draco The whole divine figure represents the beginning and the end of time. Both serpents are manifestations of the deity Mehen, who in other funerary texts protects Ra in his underworld journey. The ouroboros is depicted twice on the figure: holding their tails in their mouths, one encircling the head and upper chest, the other surrounding the feet of a large figure, which may represent the unified Ra-Osiris ( Osiris born again as Ra). The text concerns the actions of the Ra and his union with Osiris in the underworld. One of the earliest known ouroboros motifs is found in the Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld, an ancient Egyptian funerary text in KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the 14th century BCE.
Historical representations First known representation of the ouroboros, on one of the shrines enclosing the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun Ancient Egypt The snake biting its own tail is a fertility symbol in some religions: the tail is a phallic symbol and the mouth is a yonic or womb-like symbol. The ouroboros is often interpreted as a symbol for eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death and rebirth the snake's skin-sloughing symbolises the transmigration of souls.
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The term derives from Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος, from οὐρά oura 'tail' plus -βορός -boros '-eating'. Another wild rat snake was found having swallowed about two-thirds of its body. One captive snake attempted to consume itself twice, dying in the second attempt. Some snakes, such as rat snakes, have been known to consume themselves. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in alchemy. The ouroboros entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition. The ouroboros or uroboros ( / ˌ j ʊər ə ˈ b ɒr ə s/ ) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. For other uses, see Ouroboros (disambiguation).Īn ouroboros in a 1478 drawing in an alchemical tract
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