The famous Ouroboros drawing from the early alchemical text The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra dating to 2nd century Alexandria encloses the words hen to pan, " one is the all ".

Chrysopoeia, the artificial production of gold is the symbolic goal of alchemists.

* There is also mention of the Analytical Engine ( or the Clockwork Ouroboros as it is also known there ) in The Book of the War, a Faction Paradox anthology edited by Lawrence Miles.

The concept is similar to that of the Ouroboros.

The " Ouroboros ", which depicts a dragon eating its own tail, is perhaps one of the most ancient and universal symbolic representations of the reflexive loop concept.

This image is reminiscent of a Ouroboros symbol and could be mistaken for a torus with a continuously-increasing diameter:

In the German-Egyptian dictionary by R. Hannig it is said that the Mehen ( mḥn ) or the Mehenet ( mḥnt ) snake is equivalent to the Ouroboros.

Eternity is often symbolized by the image of a snake swallowing its own tail, known as Ouroboros ( or Uroboros ), though the symbol can also carry a number of other connotations.

The related concept, infinity, is symbolized by, which may be based on the Ouroboros.

The Ouroboros or Uroborus is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.

The Ouroboros symbol appears in both 14th-15th century Albigensian printing watermarks and is also worked into the pip cards of many early ( 14th-15th century ) playing cards, including Tarot cards.

In alchemy, the Ouroboros is a sigil.

The Ouroboros is also seen in Fon or Dahomean iconography as well as in Yoruba imagery as Oshunmare.

An early example of this type is Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, nominally set on the planet Mercury, but a Mercury that is indistinguishable in any way from a fantasy Earth.

Eddison is best known for the early romance The Worm Ouroboros ( 1922 ) and for three volumes set in the imaginary world Zimiamvia, known as the Zimiamvian Trilogy: Mistress of Mistresses ( 1935 ), A Fish Dinner in Memison ( 1941 ), and The Mezentian Gate ( 1958 ).

In their picaresque and unrelenting strangeness, Shea's tales evoke Jack Vance and Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique tales, as well as The Worm Ouroboros ; but what his work most reminds me of is David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus, a book which had always struck me as being sui generis.

Lister is in fact his own father, shown in the episode " Ouroboros " when he fills up a test tube for Kochanski, and then realises after seeing a battery box with an " Ouroboros " logo, that he in fact is the baby in the test tube.

Rêve: the Dream Ouroboros is a French fantasy tabletop role-playing game created by Denis Gerfaud and re-published in English by Malcontent Games.

At one extreme, the heroes of E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros grieve for the end of the war and that they have no more foes equal to those they defeated ; in answer to their prayers, the gods restore the enemy city so that they can fight the same war over again.

Some international polls have voted them ( in particular the album Ouroboros ) as one of the most influential psychedelic albums from Mexico.

As such, the Ouroboros could be interpreted as the Western equivalent of the Taoist Yin-Yang symbol.

C. S. Lewis wrote a short preface to an anthology of Eddison's works, including The Worm Ouroboros, concluding that " No writer can be said to remind us of Eddison.

" Davidson, though, faulted Eddison's conception, saying " Ouroboros is a classic, but it is not and cannot be a great classic ," because it lacks " humanity " -- the realistic detail of great works like the Arabian Nights, where characters " do not merely kiss and declaim and posture.

This gave rise to the symbol for immortality being the Ouroboros, a serpent with a tail in its mouth.

The next episode, " Ouroboros ", makes contact with a timeline in which Kochanski, rather than Lister, was the sole survivor of the original disaster ; this alternate Kochanski then joins the crew for the remaining episodes.

The Ouroboros often represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end ( compare with phoenix ).

The band released the highly anticipated album, the second part of the Apocalypse trilogy, Scandinavian Leather in 2003, complete with artwork of a skull Ouroboros from legendary Revolver-designer Klaus Voorman.

Gerald Hayes, a cartographer with the Royal Navy, created the first map for Ouroboros circa 1925, initially from internal evidence, and later in consultation with Eddison.

The Worm Ouroboros is often compared with J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings ( which it predates by 32 years ).

In the 1922 heroic high fantasy novel The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison, there is a character named " Queen Sophonisba ", though her role in the book has little in common with the historic Sophonisba.

This album, along with brother Project Frolic Froth's album Ouroboros were also released in Italy by the D-dabliu label in LP format.

* The cover of the album pictures an Ouroboros, with a vulture's head instead of a serpent, which was made to symbolize greed.

* A 19th-century Japanese map, the Jishin-no-ben, in the shape of Ouroboros depicts a dragon associated with causing earthquakes.

The Ouroboros has been important in religious and mythological symbolism, but has also been frequently used in alchemical illustrations, where it symbolizes the circular nature of the alchemist's opus.

* Eric Rücker Eddison ( The Worm Ouroboros and The Zimiamvian Trilogy ) was a pre-Tolkien high fantasy writer.

Worm Ouroboros.

Hippogriffs and hippogriff eggs play a key role in Eric Rücker Eddison's 1922 novel The Worm Ouroboros.

The events of the episode " Ouroboros ", the final episode written by Wolfe, introduced the last major changes that Wolfe was willing to make to the series.

After production of Fire and Ice wrapped, Bakshi attempted several projects that fell through, including adaptations of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction of Sherlock Holmes.

* E. R. Eddison-The Worm Ouroboros

The Society's seal incorporated the Swastika, Star of David, Ankh, Aum and Ouroboros symbols.

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