The Ouroboros

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: The Ouroboros
Reply To: [Yahoo! #3212] The Ouroboros
Date: 7/2/00 6:48 pm  (ET)

> Someone asked awhile back what an Ouroboros is. (snip) I found these
pictures on the same website where someone else found nfo on Nicholas
Flamel.
 http://www.alchemylab.com/ouroboros.htm

I love the Ouroboros pictures, but the word just means the Serpent
Swallowing Its Own Tail, which is an ancient Greek symbol for Infinity
(so the one folded into a figure-eight is a pun, because a figure-eight
on its side is a modern symbol for infinity).

There is a famous adult fantasy trilogy named THE WORM OUROBOROS, but
I found the first paragraph so dull that I never got past it.