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== 2024==
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During [[Gnaiger C|Carolina's]] stay in Vienna, she spotted an Oroboros around the emblem of Marie Christine on a monument right next to Albertina.
File:Palazzo_Vecchio_Primizie_della_terra_offerte_a_Saturno.jpg|An Ouroboros artwork at "First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn" at the Palazzo Vecchio
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== 2023==
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During [[Gnaiger C|Carolina's]] stay in Vienna, she spotted an Oroboros around the emblem of Marie Christine on a monument right next to Albertina.
File:VickyInk_tattoo.jpeg|An Ouroboros tattoo  observed during an O2k-Workshop, made by the tattoo artist @vicky.ink
File:Marienkirche_in_krakau.jpg|Photo from the outside of St Mary's Basilica in Krakau, Poland.
File:PalazzoMediciRiccardi-AntroEternita.jpg|The picture shows one of the ends of the ceiling in the Galleria Riccardiana (opposite to the entrance) reproduce the Cave of Eternity. Giordano presents a gathering of mythological figures associated with time and mortality. They are encircled by an Ouroboros, which symbolises Eternity.
File:Oroboros_AI_generated_may_2023.png|The image depicts the city of Innsbruck, Austria, with a stunning Ouroboros at its center. The use of AI in creating the image adds an element of surrealism and depth, making for a truly captivating piece of art.
File:Carolina-WindowColours 1.JPG|Check out the lovely view from our office. Oh, and what's that? An Oroboros attached to the window and took in the scenery.
File:Paris St Germain des Pres 04.JPG|An Ouroboros in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_Saint-Germain-des-Pr%C3%A9s Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés], discovered at the occasion of [[ESCI 2016 Paris FR]] - the [[Oroboros_picture_of_the_month#2016 |Oroboros picture of the month, May 2016]] (2016-04-30; photo by [[Gnaiger A |Andrea Gnaiger]])).
File:Odra_Noel_Powerplant.jpg|Powerplant. Odra Noel combines scientific work with scientific art creation. Her main subjects are healthy human organs and tissues, cell structure and mitochondria.  ([[Odra_Noel]])
File:Oro in mumok.jpg|Oduduwa Myth - Story of Creation 1963. This beautiful cassava starch batik of an Ouroboros was spotted in the Mumok museum in Vienna. The artist of this piece is the Austrian-Nigerian artist, Susanne Wenger. (Susanne Wenger Fondation, 1915 Graz, Austria - 2009 Oshogbo, Nigeria)
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== 2022==
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File:ORO Christmas 2022.jpeg| HAPPY HOLIDAYS. Please note that our office and technical support will be closed for the Christmas period from December 24th, 2022 until January 8th, 2023. For orders that need to be shipped before our holiday break, please send us your request and the corresponding information by December 13th, 2022. The Oroboros Team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
File:ORO in Innsbruck.png|The Ouroboros in Innsbruck. During a recent walk through Innsbruck, [[Gnaiger Carolina|Carolina]] spotted an Ouroboros sticker. Have you ever seen an Ouroboros in your town? We would love to see your photos. Please feel free to share them with us.
File:UroborosPaleAleHQ.jpg|Czech Ouroboros beer. During the [[EMC2022 Prague CZ|EMC2022 in Prague]] [[Gnaiger Erich|Erich]] was given a beautiful gift - An Uroboros beer! The Ouroboros symbolizes the concept of eternity and endless return.
File:Altmann_Paier-Pourani.jpg|MitoDesign. Mouse liver, osmium mixture by Richard Altmann on top. Live rat liver cells, stained with a deep-red-flurescent dye; laser scanning microscope. By [[Paier-Pourani J|Jamile Paier-Pourani]] at the bottom. Presented at [[Renner-Sattler_2010_Mitochondr_Physiol_Network_MiP2010|MiP2010]]
File:Oroboros-15th-century-French_manuscript.jpg|Oroboros eating tail. An interesting illustration of an oroboros from the 15th century, depicted in a French manuscript. © Dragons: A Natural History by Karl P. N. Shuker
File:Odra Noel 2022.jpeg|Oroboros Art. [[Odra Noel|Odra Noel's]] stunning artwork was on display at the recent [[Bioblast_2022|Bioblast 2022: BEC Inaugural Conference]]. Odra Noel combines scientific work with scientific art creation
File:Ouroboros.jpg|Serpent Eating Tail. The Ouroboros spotted in the city of Grove, OK. The name Ouroboros comes from the Greek language, where (oura) means "tail" and (boros) means "eating," resulting in "one who eats the tail." (Source: https://www.cityofgroveok.gov/building/page/serpent-eating-tail-ouroboros)
File:AngewChem2010.jpg|The Oroboros in Applied Chemistry.An ouroborand is presented in the publication by Durola and Rebek (2010), which in its cavity coordinates an internal side chain and looks to swallow its own tail. The form is caused by the presence or absence of zinc(II) in solution, which flips the cavity between open and closed states (see https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200906753).
File:Barchusen 1.jpg|Johann Conrad Barchusen, towards the tail end of alchemy's golden period, attempted to elucidate alchemy's allegorical imagery by detailing the procedures as plainly as he could. He paired the enigmatic photos with the chemical equipment utilized in the technique. (Plate 504, Figures 10-13 from Johann Conrad Barchusen's Elementa chemiae)
File:Sladkova MiPArt2010.jpg|Alien A snapshot of HeLa cells done by Sladkova Jana([[Renner-Sattler_2010_Mitochondr_Physiol_Network_MiP2010|Jana SlĂĄdkovĂĄ. MiP2010]])
File:Alchemy-fire 1.jpg|Aurora Consurgens, a 15th-Century alchemical manuscript, features the ouroboros, linked with the symbols of the sun, moon, and mercury (Credit: Zentralbibliothek ZĂŒrich)
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== 2021==
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File:Oro xmas 2021.jpg|Happy Holidays! The Oroboros office is enjoying a break from December 23rd to January 6th.
File:Koopman MiPArt2010.jpg|Human skin fibroblast Three confocal sections (bottom to top; red, green blue) of a living cell stained with rhodamine 123. Presented by [[Koopman Werner JH]].
File:Copenhagen5.jpg|Oroboros in Copenhagen Before departing for the [[Greenland_Expedition|Greenland 2004 expedition]], [[Gnaiger_E|Erich Gnaiger]] strolled through the Kierkegaard graveyard in Copenhagen, observing a suprising variety of Ouroboros emblems - symbols of transformation and eternal recycling (2004-02-22; photo by Erich Gnaiger).
File:Altmann 1894 Tafel VII.jpg|Science and Art - The Beauty of Mitochondria [[Altmann 1894 Verlag Von Veit & Comp |Richard Altmann (1894)]] coined the term [[Bioblasts]] to describe the 'elementary particles' observed by osmium staining in metazoan cells, endosymbiotic and free-living bacteria (Tafel VII 1 Pankreas der Maus VII 2 Wurzelknöllchen von ''Coronilla glauca'').
File:Dali oroboros.jpg|DalĂ­'s Ouroboros. "DalĂ­'s Ouroboros is more naturalistic than his other prints in Alchimie des Philosophes, and its features are similar to an eel or sea serpent. It is cut in many pieces, though the head biting the tail remains one piece. The Ouroboros maintains its circular shape, though the oozing pieces of the serpent interrupt its sense of eternity. The decaying pieces also represent the alchemical stage of putrefaction, when the alchemical matter decomposes. The pieces are arranged around a large, circular gem. Each facet of the jewel contains a different symbol, including keys and ants. DalĂ­ frequently used ants as symbols of decay and temporality. In this sense, the ants are fitting in their placements around the dead Ouroboros, a symbol of eternity now subjected to the effects of time. The center features an interlocking Yin and Yang. However, the shapes seem intentionally ambiguous, and also resemble slabs of meat similar to the pieces of the serpent." (Source: [libmedia.willamette.edu https://libmedia.willamette.edu/hfma/omeka/exhibits/show/salvador-dali--alchimie-des-ph/the-ouroboros]
File:Picofmonth2021-07.jpg|Oroboros in Italy. During his vacation in Soave, Italy, our Team member [[Reinelt M|Maximilian]] discovered an Oroboros on a stone plaque placed on the garden wall of Casa Scrinzi.
File:Odra Noel 2008 Barcode mitochondria.jpg|Scientific Art. Mitochondria as boxes of secrets: of the past, of the future, of life itself. If information is power, mitochondria have the power and the information, in their own genes. Watch this space. [https://odranoel.eu/ Odra Noel] (2008) Barcode mitochondria. [[MiPArt Gallery]].
File:Spirasolaris-b.jpg|Ouroboros was and is the name for the Great World Serpent, encircling the earth. The word 'Ouroboros' is really a term that describes a similar symbol that has been cross-pollinated from many different cultures. From "Ouroboros," there is the serpent or dragon gnawing at its own tail. The symbolic connotation from this owes to the returning cyclical nature of the seasons; the oscillations of the night sky; self-fecundation; truth and cognition complete; the potential before the spark of creation; the undifferentiated; the Totality; and the idea of the beginning and the end as being a continuous unending principle. It represents the conflict of life as well in that life comes out of life and death. 'My end is my beginning.' In a sense life feeds off itself, thus there are good and bad connotations that can be drawn. It is a single image with the entire actions of a life cycle - it begets, weds, impregnates, and slays itself, but in a cyclical sense, rather than linear. Thus, it fashions our lives to a totality more towards what it may really be - a series of movements that repeat. "As Above, So Below" - we are born from nature, and we mirror it because it is what man wholly is a part of. ([http://www.spirasolaris.ca/sbb4f.html Copyright © 1997. John N. Harris, M.A.(CMNS)])


File:Mipart2014.1.jpg|Science is beautiful: it has truth, it has drama, it is full of wonder. The Mitchell’s dreamseries by [[Odra Noel]] is a vision of some aspects of science through art. We hope it explains, inspires or makes you curious to find out more [https://wiki.oroboros.at/images/f/f8/MiPArt-Mitchells_dream.pdf here]
File:Sigillum sapientum.jpg|The ‘Sigillum Sapientum’ (Seal of the Wise) of the alchemist. The inner union (hexagram and ouroboros) takes place as a result of the inner working of the divine Sophia (woman with sword and scales). Source: JM Faust, Philalethes Illustratus, 1706
File:Oro19.jpg|Oroboros is popular in African art - This clay molding is from the walls of King Ghezo's palace of Dahomey. (African Mythology, Geoffrey Parrinder)
File:Volatile 2.jpg|The Ouroboros represents the perpetual cyclic renewal of life and infinity, the concept of eternity and the eternal return, and represents the cycle of life, death and rebirth, leading to immortality, as in the phoenix.
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File:Ancient Egypiton Ouroboros.jpg| The sun god and the Ouroboros, image on a  golden shrine in the tomb of Tutankhamun. The Ouroboros first appeared in its classical, circular form on a golden shrine in the  tomb  of Tutankhamun,  the  pharaoh  who, at  the  end  of  the  revolutionary Amarna Period, returned to Thebes and the traditional religion. (Articles, [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de%2Findex.php%2Faegyp%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F66091%2F58906%2F&psig=AOvVaw3_KVqrmijzObE-aIXctZG2&ust=1606917537500000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAMQjB1qFwoTCPC36r34rO0CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAJ Aegyptiaca. Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt], 2019)
File:Oro music.png|Oroboros in the world of music. While going through some new music, our customer and colleague Prof. [[Joseph Vincent]] spotted an Oroboros on a album cover of the band "WookieFoot" and send it to us. Thank you for that!
File:SM.jpg| Full Circle. This image was created for the cover of an issue of Angewandte Chemie that featured an article on the geometric and electronic connections between different types of pericyclic reactions. The background is a page from Woodward and Hoffmann's classic Conservation of Orbital Symmetry. The circle is an orobouros - a mythical serpent eating its own tail - that I created in response to a suggestion by Roald Hoffmann; it is meant to emphasize both the cyclic nature of pericyclic transition structures as well as the fact that the article accompanying this illustration marked Roald's return to the topic of simple pericyclic reactions of hydrocarbons, nearly three decades after he first described many of their key electronic features. (Dean J Tantillo -[http://blueline.ucdavis.edu/2ndTier/Representation.html link])
File:SassAdam4.jpg| The Ouroboros symbol. In this personal Symbology by Adam Sass, he writes about his discovery of the ouroboros symbol and its meaning [http://www.literate-lemur.com/ouroboros/ here]. (Sass A, 2003)
File:Trogerhof-Sgrafitti 1.JPG| Oroboros Sgrafitto. Another snapshot taken at Trogerhof in Tyrol, Austria. Symbolizing the ouroboros, an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.
File:Sphinga.JPG|The 'Sphinga' is from an artist who exhibited in Krumau (CZ). The Sphinga's tail ends in a snake head and is wrapped around her neck. The snake head touches her lips and results in a kiss which represents a closed circle, just as the Oroboros.
File:Oroboros austria library2.jpg|Oroboros spans the world - [[Doerrier C|Carolina Doerrier]] visited the library in Admont (June 2017), https://www.stiftadmont.at/en/library. She spotted two different Oroboros there. More pictures [https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Oroboros_symbol#Oroboros_in_Austria here]
File:Krakow2.jpg|Oroboros spans the world - An excursion at the FLAWOPIRYNIA conference in Lodz to Krakow (2012-10-25 to 26) revealed a Ouroboros emblem in a crypt beneath the Wawel Cathedral  (photo by [[Watala C|Prof. Cezary Watala]]).
File:Copenhagen12.jpg|Oroboros spans the world - Before departing for the [[Greenland Expedition CMRC 2004|Greenland 2004 expedition]], Erich Gnaiger strolled through the Kierkegaard graveyard in Copenhagen, observing a suprising variety of Ouroboros emblems - symbols of transformation and eternal recycling
File:Ouroboros Jennis Lucas.jpg|Ouroboros by Lucas Jennis, in the 1625 alchemical tract De Lapide Philosophico. Ouroboros, a mythical dragon-snake that eats up itself, speaks to the cyclic nature of all things. Image of reflection and attentive reasoning, the Ouroboros can be related with each one of those things that, after having reached their end, start again, in an endless return.
File:Ouroboros Jennis Lucas.jpg|Ouroboros by Lucas Jennis, in the 1625 alchemical tract De Lapide Philosophico. Ouroboros, a mythical dragon-snake that eats up itself, speaks to the cyclic nature of all things. Image of reflection and attentive reasoning, the Ouroboros can be related with each one of those things that, after having reached their end, start again, in an endless return.
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