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Ouroboros

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A serpent that swallows its tail in Egyptian, Greek, and later alchemical image. Not the animal serpent and not every cycle-diagram.

Egyptian religion

  • Ouroboros appears in Egyptian religion.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris discusses Egyptian serpent and circular year/cosmos image that later emblem speech calls ouroboros — a named ouroboros presence in egyptian-religion under this source, not the animal serpent alone and not alchemical phoenix dump.

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

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