The alchemists were fond of picturing their opus as a circulatory process, as a circular distillation or as the uroboros, the snake biting its own tail, and they made innumerable pictures of this process.
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Ouroboros
//uːˈrɒbəˌrɒs//
Synonyms for "ouroboros"
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36 translations across 33 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أوربوروس noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Armenian
2 entries- ուրոբորոս noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
- օրոբորոս noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- uroboros noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Bulgarian
1 entries- уроборос noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Catalan
1 entries- uròbor noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 銜尾蛇 /衔尾蛇 noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Czech
1 entries- úroboros noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Esperanto
1 entries- uroboro noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Estonian
1 entries- uroboros noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Finnish
1 entries- ouroboros noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
French
1 entries- ouroboros noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Galician
1 entries- uróboros noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
German
1 entries- Uroboros noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Greek
1 entries- ουροβόρος noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Hebrew
1 entries- אורובורוס noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Hindi
1 entries- ओरोबोरोस noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Hungarian
1 entries- uroborosz noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Italian
1 entries- uroboro noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Japanese
1 entries- ウロボロス noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Korean
1 entries- 우로보로스 noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Latin
1 entries- ūroborus noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Lithuanian
1 entries- uroboras noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഊറൊബോറസ് noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Persian
1 entries- اوروبروس noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Polish
1 entries- uroboros noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Portuguese
1 entries- uróboro noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Romanian
1 entries- uroborus noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Russian
1 entries- уробо́рос noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Slovak
1 entries- uroboros noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Spanish
3 entries- ouroboro noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
- pescadilla que se muerde la cola noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
- uróboro noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Swedish
1 entries- ouroboros noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Ukrainian
1 entries- уробо́рос noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
Urdu
1 entries- اوروبورس noun (a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail)
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Khepera eating his own seed is a model of Romantic creativity, where the self is isolated and sexually dual. Khepera bent over himself is a uroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, a magic circle of regeneration and rebirth. The uroboros is the prehistoric track of natural cycle, from which Judaism and Hellenism make a conceptual break.
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One myth speaks of Ouroboros, a serpent-like creature that survived and regenerated itself by eating only its own tail. By neither taking from nor adding to its environment, this creature was said to be completely environmentally benign and self-sufficient.
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First, the snake has not caught its tail—the ouroboros figure is uncompleted. Blake executed fully formed ouroboros figures for the verso of this Night Thoughts page and for a later passage (6:690-92), and was familiar with numerous full ouroboros figures from contemporary and earlier sources […]
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