Oroboros picture of the month
2018
As on the cover of Ken Follett's historical novel "World without End", describing the struggle of mankind to find the balance between old structures and progressive minds.
"QVOD SVPERIVS EST EST EST SICVT ID QVOD INFERIVS" ("As above so below")
![OUROBOROS, 1597. The Basilisk monster as an Ouroboros. Woodcut from an edition of Horapollo's 'Hieroglyphica,' printed in Rome, 1597. - [1]](/images/thumb/0/02/Horapollo.jpg/592px-Horapollo.jpg)
OUROBOROS, 1597. The Basilisk monster as an Ouroboros. Woodcut from an edition of Horapollo's 'Hieroglyphica,' printed in Rome, 1597. - [1]
![Native American Ouroboros. It is a common belief among indigenous people of the tropical lowlands of South America that waters at the edge of the world-disc are encircled by a snake, often an anaconda, biting its own tail. [2]](/images/thumb/9/91/Australia_1.jpg/435px-Australia_1.jpg)
Native American Ouroboros. It is a common belief among indigenous people of the tropical lowlands of South America that waters at the edge of the world-disc are encircled by a snake, often an anaconda, biting its own tail. [2]
Ouroboros — An Ancient Symbol that Survived Through Millennia;The ouroboros appears in the classic alchemical study, Atalanta Fugiens (1617), by the physician to Emperor Rudolf II, Michael Maier (Credit: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) - By Percy Ramsey
M. C. Escher: Dragon (wood-engraving, 1952). 'However much this dragon tries to be spatial, he remains completely flat. Two incisions are made in the paper on which he is printed. Then it is folded in such a way as to leave two square openings. But this dragon is an obstinate beast, and in spite of his two dimensions he persists in assuming that he has three; so he sticks his head through one of the holes and his tail through the other.
![OUROBOROS, 1597. The Basilisk monster as an Ouroboros. Woodcut from an edition of Horapollo's 'Hieroglyphica,' printed in Rome, 1597. - [1]](/index.php/File:Horapollo.jpg)
![Native American Ouroboros. It is a common belief among indigenous people of the tropical lowlands of South America that waters at the edge of the world-disc are encircled by a snake, often an anaconda, biting its own tail. [2]](/index.php/File:Australia_1.jpg)
2017
Eat art. Exhibit in the Ludwig museum in Budapest Ludwig museum Artist
Cosmic Ouroboros By Adams and Primack Scalometer. Phycisist Prof. Joel Primack and his wife, lawyer/philosophe Nancy Abrams, also use the ouroboros to visually describe quantum and cosmic realtionships.
A leggy Ouroboros decorating the flour of rural tavern gem Forellenhof in Haggen, Tyrol.
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The Ouroboros and the Tree of Life - The ouroboro was believed to be the protector of the Tree of Life in some europe and norse mythology stories.
A copy of a 1478 drawing by Theodoros Pelecanos, of an alchemical tract attributed to Synesius - Wikipedia
Codex Marcianus - offers one of the best Ouroboros representations.It is the most ancient and complete among greek manuscripts examinated by Marcelin Berthelot in his “ Collection des Anciens Alchimistes Grecs” Paris 1887, Collection of Ancient Greek Alchemists. In the treatise on Chrysopeia, namely by Cleopatra, Berthelot found an entire page with symbols together with the Ouroboros we are examining. Find out more here.
The Book of Kells, Thames & Hudson with the Ouroboros as a frame. Discovered at the 1. TRACT Marie Curie Meeting at the Trinity College in Dublin - Museum
The snake eating its own tail simply represents the recreation of life through death by the Universe. It is interpreted as some kind of a rebirth of the dead reaching an immortality of sorts. Therefore, it is assumed that the infinity symbol was derived from the original symbol of ouroboros. - mythologian.net
Ouroboros represents many things, including totality, the cycle of life, and the union of opposites. "Cum patientia" sums up the struggle between self-knowledge and self-deception.
The REAL ouroboros: This is an Armadillo Lizard, which, if frightened, will grab its tail in its mouth and roll into a ball. (from pets blogspot)
2016
We wish you a relaxing holiday, with best wishes for a bioenergetic, communicative and productive New Year 2017 in the spirit of Gentle Science
Oroboros' own Christina Plattner reveals the global dispersion of the Ouroboros in the Moroccan desert while feeding on its tail.
An Ouroboros in the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, discovered at the occasion of ESCI 2016 Paris FR.
Jules Devaux, PhD student at the O2k-Network Lab of Prof. Hickey in Auckland, NZ did some garnishing on the O2k.
2015
Nicole Bezuidenhout, visiting scientist from Cape Town (South Africa) at the Oroboros MitoFit Lab, is proudly showing her new Ouroboros tattoo. Nov 2015.
The mitochondrial Oroboros (by Odra Noel, London, 2012) was a centre piece of MiPArt at Bioblast 2012 illustrating the cycle of fission and fusion, with quality control as an essential mechanism to stay MitoFit. Sept 2015.
An Ouroboros (made by Anna Stepanova, New York, 2015) helping with DatLab analysis - the picture was sent by Anna Stepanova during her participation in the O2k-Workshop in Greenville, August 2015.
An Ouroboros tattoo from Sao Paulo walking in Manaus - observed during the O2k-Workshop July 2015.
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