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The symbol of a serpent [[Auto Cannibalism|eating its own tail]], making a circle.
Dating back from [[Ancient Egypt]], the Ouroboros is a symbol of [[Infinite|eternity]] and the cyclical nature of time and the universe. The fact that the serpent is eating itself is also indicative of the idea of self-consumption in the way we live. Sometime it may even be two serpents each eating the others tail, taking on similarities with the [[Dragons Up the Yin
The [[Motif]] gains a lot of a secondary tier of association with alchemy and [[Time Travel]]. Note the connection to [[The Phoenix]] and also the serpent as the shedder of skin and rejuvenator which acts much like [[The Phoenix]] motif.
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** In the film, they make the specific addition of having the two snakes also intertwine in the centre to make the other common variation of having the infinity symbol in the centre.
* This is mentioned in a crappy children's book called Redwork. It's about alchemy, and there's a ring in the shape of a serpent eating its own tail.
* The above picture comes from the early alchemists' text ''The Chrysopoeaia of Cleopatra'' which dates all the way back to 2nd century Alexandria. "Chrysopoeaia" means rather literally "Making Gold" or basically, since we're dealing with alchemists here, transmutation into gold i.e. a Philosopher's Stone. You can also see from the light dark comparisons the similarity to the [[Dragons Up the Yin
* In [[Robert E Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[The Phoenix On the Sword (Literature)|The Phoenix On the Sword]]", Thoth-amon's Ring of Power.
{{quote| ''He triumphantly lifted a ring of curious make. It was of a metal like copper, and was made in the form of a scaled serpent, coiled in three loops, with its tail in its mouth. Its eyes were yellow gems which glittered balefully. ''}}
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* Early on in ''[[The Invisible Man (TV)|The Invisible Man]]'', Darien Fawkes gets a special Ouroboros tattoo that monitors the amount of counteragent in his blood via sections of the tattoo turning green or red. Once the entire tattoo turns red, Quicksilver Madness sets in.
* ''[[Lost]]'': In Mrs. Hawking's first appearance, she is wearing a brooch in the shape of an ouroboros. Appropriately enough, her role is to tell Desmond [[Mental Time Travel|(who is in the past, but with memories of his future)]], to [[You Can't Fight Fate|not deviate from the timeline he remembers]]. In Season Six, when Desmond meets her, she's wearing a different brooch that [[Alternate Universe|has two parallel lines on it]].
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