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ouroboro • pescadilla que se muerde la cola • uróboro
A serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
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 tai…
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 p…
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