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Ouroboros is an ancient alchemy symbol depicting a snake or dragon [DNA] swallowing its own tail, constantly creating itself and forming a circle. It is the Wheel of Time - The Alchemy Wheel - 12 Around 1 to manifest grid programs that give the illusion of linear time allowing souls to experience emotions.
衔尾蛇是一个古代的炼金术标记——被描绘成蛇或龙（DNA），吞咽着它自己的尾部，不断地创造它自身和形成一个圆形。这是时间之轮——炼金术之轮——12围绕1，（应该是指十二因缘和无明） Ouroboros is associated with Alchemy -- Gnosticism and Hermeticism. It represents the cyclical nature of things, eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end.
衔尾蛇与炼金术——诺斯替主义和赫姆提卡主义连结在一起。它代表大自然万物的循环，没完没了的来来回回，和<敏感詞>代表循环的事物，起始又是结束。 In some representations the serpent is shown as half light and half dark, echoing symbols such as the Yin Yang, which illustrates the dual nature of all things, but more importantly, that these opposites are not in conflict.
在一些表示里面，衔尾蛇表现为半黑半白，就像阴和阳象征的反射现象，阐明了万物的二元性，但更重要的是，这些对立面并不冲突。 Origins of the Ouroboros
衔尾蛇的起源 The serpent or dragon eating its own tail has survived from antiquity and can be traced back to Ancient Egypt, circa 1600 B.C.E.
衔尾蛇或者龙在吞吃自己的尾巴这个保存下来的古代遗物可以追溯到古代埃及，大约公元前1600年左右。 From there it passed to Phoenicia and then to the Greek philosophers, who gave it the name Ouroboros ('the tail-devourer').
从腓尼基到希腊哲学家，都把它命名为Ouroboros（“吞吃尾巴者”）。 Norse Mythology - the serpent Jormungand, one of the 3 children of Loki - the Trickster who grew so large that it could encircle the world and grasp its tail in its teeth.
挪威神话——衔尾蛇Jormungand，火神洛基的三个孩子之一—如此巨大的魔法师，以致可以环围世界和把尾巴放进自己的嘴里。 Hindu Mythology - the dragon circling the tortoise which supports the four elephants that carry the world.
印度神话——龙围绕着代表世界四条支柱的四只海龟上。 The serpent or dragon also appears in Aztec, Chinese, and Native American mythology.
衔尾蛇或者龙也出现在阿芝台达，中国和美洲土著神话里。 Christians adopted the Ouroboros as a symbol of the limited confines of this world (that there is an 'outside' being implied by the demarcation of an inside), and the self-consuming transitory nature of a mere this-worldly existence following in the footsteps of the Preacher in Ecclesiastes.
基督教采用衔尾蛇作为这个世界的有限界线标记（那就是有限的划分之外还有无限），自我强烈只是一个这个世界瞬间存在的本性，延着《传道书》上传教士的足迹。 It could very well be used to symbolize the closed-system model of the universe of some physicists even today.
今天也可以用作表示一些物理事件上的宇宙封闭系统。 Symbology behind the Ouroboros
衔尾蛇背后的象征
The ouroboros has several meanings interwoven into it. Foremost is the symbolism of the serpent biting, devouring, eating its own tail. This symbolises the cyclic Nature of the Universe: creation out of destruction, Life out of Death. The ouroboros eats its own tail to sustain its life, in an eternal cycle of renewal. In the above drawing, from a book by an early Alchemist, Cleopatra, the black half symbolises the Night, Earth, and the destructive force of nature, yin. the light half represents Day, Heaven, the generative, creative force, yang.
衔尾蛇包含着几个象征意义。首先是象征着像蛇一般地咬，吞吃，吃自己的尾巴。这是宇宙的轮转标记：创造之外是毁灭，生命之外是死亡。大毒蛇吃着自己的尾巴来支持自己的生命，在一种永恒的更新周期里。
Alchemy
炼金术
Alchemically, the ouroboros is also used as a purifying glyph. Ouroboros was and is the name for the Great World Serpent, encircling the Earth.
炼金术上，衔尾蛇也被用作一个净化的标记。衔尾蛇是世界之蛇，环围着地球。
The word Ouroboros is really a term that describes a similar symbol which has been cross-pollinated from many different cultures. Its symbolic connotation from this owes to the returning cyclical nature of the seasons; the oscillations of the night sky; self-fecundation; disintegration and re-integration; truth and cognition complete; the Androgyne; the primaeval waters; the potential before the spark of creation; the undifferentiated; the Totality; primordial unity; self-sufficiency, and the idea of the beginning and the end as being a continuous unending principle.
“衔尾蛇”是一个真正的术语，描绘一种相似的标记，从很多文化中交替地出现。它含蓄地象征着季节的来回循环；黑夜的振动；自我受胎；瓦解和综合；真理和认识的完成；雌雄同体；原始的水；潜在的创世火花；无差别性；整体；原初的合一；自给自足；象征无休止的永恒法则下的开始和终结。 Ouroboros 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 which 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.
衔尾蛇描绘了生命的冲突，同时也伴随着生命与死亡。“我的终结也是我的开始”。这样一种生命意义来喂养着自己，因此可以描绘出好与坏的内涵。它是一个整个生命周期活动的标记——诞生，结婚，怀孕，然后杀死自己，但是在循环的意义上，而不是线性的。
Thus, it fashions our lives to a totality more towards what it may really be - a series of movements which repeat. 'As Above, So Below' - we are born from nature, and we mirror it, because it is what man wholly is a part of. It is this symbolic rendition of the eternal principles that are presented in the Emerald Tablets of Thoth.
从而，它改变了我们整个生命，更加地朝向真实——一系列重复的运作。“上如是，下亦如是”——我们生于自然，我们也反射了它，因此这是人完全是其中一部分。这是表现永恒法则的象征，描绘在透特神的裴翠石版上。
The Ouroboros connects the Above and Below
衔尾蛇的连结：上面和下面 Born from this symbolic notion, there are many different cultures which share this great dragon-serpent symbol (the serpent Jormungandr, from the myth of Yggdrasil, is just one). There are some cultures thatsee the image as not being beneficial, but evil - like Satan. These more specific re-interpretations will be spoken of later.
出自这种象征性的概念，很多不同的文化都共同拥有这条龙—蛇的标记（衔尾蛇Jormungandr，从Yggdrasil的神话而来，是其中一个）。一些文化可以看到这个象征不是正面的，而是邪恶的——就像撒旦。更加详细的重新解释将在后面说明。 It is of interest to mention that a symbol such as that of the Ouroboros is something which Carl Jung refers to as an archetype; it seems to makes its way into our conscious mind time and time again in varying forms. The 19th century German chemist named Kekule dreamed of a snake with its tail in its mouth one day after dosing off. He had been researching the molecular structure of benzene, and was at a stop point in his work until after waking up he interpreted the dream to mean that the structure was a closed carbon ring. This was the breakthrough he needed.
有趣的是衔尾蛇作为一种标记，卡尔容格有时把它作为一种原型；它看起来似乎是在我们头脑的意识内制造了自己的习惯，以各种形式来周而复始。19世纪的德国化学家Kekule梦见一条把自己的尾巴放在自己的嘴里的衔尾蛇，一复一日。他研究过笨的分子结构，在他工作的短暂休息期间，直到他完成了自己的解梦，意味着这个结构与封闭的铜环相当相似。这是他必要的突破。 There is another mention of the Ouroboros laying at the edge of 'the sea which surrounds the world,' called Pontus. The Ouroboros encircles the Universe; everything known and unknown is encompassed in its embracing coils, supporting and maintaining the earthly balance. It injects life into death and death into budding life. Its form suggests immobility with its locked jaws upon itself, yet at the same time it pushes the insistent message of perpetual movement through its twined coils. The first clues to this symbol go back as far as 1600-1700 BC in Egypt. Through the years the serpent moved on to the Phoenicians and the Greeks-who were what gave it the name 'Ouroboros.' The Greek translation means, 'tail eater.'
这是对衔尾蛇的另一种说法，蛇躺在“包围世界的海洋”岸边上，称为本都。衔尾蛇环绕着宇宙；每一样知道和未知的事都包围在它的拥抱的卷带马口铁里面，支撑和维持地球的平衡。它注入生命到死亡里面，死亡又进入发芽的生命里面。它的形状暗示了它上面锁定的狭口的坚固不移，同时又通过成双的卷带马口铁推动着坚持不懈的信息。这个标记的第一条线索可以回溯到公元前1600年——1700年的埃及。随着年岁，大毒蛇移动到腓尼基和希腊——给予了“Ouroboros”的名字。希腊的翻译意思是“尾巴吞吃者”。 'All is One!' cries this Ouroboros from Alexandrian Egypt.
亚历山大时期埃及的衔尾蛇声称：一即一切 'The Serpent Ouroboros' from ancient Egypt.
古代埃及的“衔尾蛇” Papyrus of Dama Heroub Egypt, 21st Dynasty
埃及纸草文书 The zodiac as a tail-eating snake (Ouroboros) symbolizes the eternity of Time and the boundry of the universe. Below it, the double lion Routi ('Yesterday and Tomorrow'), the agency of ressurection, supporting the newborn Sun God.
黄道带作为一个吞吃尾巴的蛇标记，代表永恒的时间和受束缚的宇宙。下面的是两只连体的狮子罗蒂（“昨天与明天”），救赎的中介，支撑着新生的太阳。 It has a strong relation to what is known as the Androgyne. The androgyne is the united male and female principles together. This is the prime primordial end to human endeavor, the reunion which births totality and creation. It is not unlike the idea of androgyny, which is a duality complete. 'A return to wholeness.'
它与雌雄同体（阴阳人）有着极大的联系。雌雄同体（阴阳人）是男性与女性法则的联合。这是原初状态和人类努力的终极成果，联结引起了全体的诞生和创造。它与雌雄同体的概念不同，是一个完全的二元性。“回归到整体”。（圆满）
Seven-segmented Aztec Ouroboros.
阿兹特克的七节衔尾蛇 This is an Aztec Ouroboros (with proportions that even Hermes would have found pleasing) originally from: Project Ouroborus at the University of Minnesota, which has a large and diverse selection of these impressive archtypes. The following commentary from this source links with what has already been said and also adds further points of interest:
这是阿芝台克人的蛇（比例甚至连赫尔墨斯也感觉完美），源自：明尼苏达大学的Ouroborus计划，这些给人深刻印象的拱形物拥有巨大和变化多样的选择。以下注解是源自与已经提到过的资料有关的来源，也进一步加上重要的地方： This symbol appears principally among the Gnostics and is depicted as a dragon, snake or serpent biting its own tail. In the broadest sense, it is symbolic of time and the continuity of life. It sometimes bears the caption Hen to pan - 'The One, the All', as in the Codex Marcianus, for instance, of the 2nd century A.D. It has also been explained as the union between the chthonian principle as represented by the serpent and the celestial principal as signified by the bird (a synthesis which can also be applied to the dragon).
这个标记主要地出现在诺斯替派里面，被描绘成一条龙，蛇或衔尾蛇，自己咬着自己的尾巴，在广泛的感知里面，它是时间和生命连续性的象征。它有时候具有Hen to pan的标记——“一即一切”，例如，在公元二世纪的马西娅文献里面。它也说明了地狱法则与天堂法则的联合，衔尾蛇作为地狱法则，鸟作为天堂法则（也可以应用于龙的一种综合）。 Ruland contends this proves that it is a variant of the symbol for Mercury - the duplex god. In some versions of the Ouroboros, the body is half light and half dark, alluding in this way to the successive counterbalancing of opposing principls as illustrated in the Chinese Yin-Yang symbol for instance. Evola asserts that it represents the dissolution of the body, or the universal serpent which (to quote the Gnostic saying) 'passes through all things'.
罗兰主张这原来是墨丘利神（众神的信使）的各种不同标记——双面的神。在一些版本的蛇里面，身体是半黑半白，以这种方式暗指相反律则的连续性平衡，例如在中国阴和阳的插图上表现出来。伊沃拉断言它代表了身体的分解（我觉得法性的分解比身体贴切些），或者宇宙的衔尾蛇（引自诺斯替派的话语）“穿过了万物”。 Poison, the viper and the universal solvent are all symbols of the undifferentiated-of the 'unchanging law' which moves through all things, linking them by a common bond. Both the dragon and the bull are symbolic antagonists of the solar hero. The Ouroboros biting its own tail is symbolic of self-fecundation, or the primitive idea of a self-sufficient Nature - a Nature, that is which, ?la Nietzsche, continually returns, within a cyclic pattern, to its own beginning. There is a Venetian manuscript on alchemy which depicts the Ouroboros with its body half-black (symbolizing earth and night) and half-white (denoting heaven and light).
毒药，毒蛇和普遍的溶解力是所有无差别的标记——“不变的法则”，透过万物来运行，用共同的连结把它们连起上来。龙和公牛都是太阳神英雄对手的象征。蛇咬着自己的尾巴是一个自我受胎的象征，或者一个自给自足自然界的原初思想——那是一种自然，尼采在一种循环的模式中不断归来，回到它的源头。威尼斯的炼金术手稿描绘着衔尾蛇的半黑半白的身体（代表着地球和黑夜，以及天堂和白天）。 As a symbol of the eternal unity of all things, the cycle of birth and death from which the alchemist sought release and liberation, it was familiar to the alchemist/physician Sir Thomas Browne. In his A letter to a friend, a medical treatise full of case-histories and witty speculations upon the human condition, he wrote of it:
作为把万物统一的标记，炼金术士把这种诞生和死亡的周期视作释放和解放，与炼金术士/医师托马斯布朗爵士相似。在他给朋友的一封信里面，一篇充满病历的医药论文，加上人类自身<敏感詞>条件之上的富于机智的思索，他写道： [...] that the first day should make the last, that the Tail of the Snake should return into its Mouth precisely at that time, and they should wind up upon the day of their Nativity, is indeed a remarkable Coincidence.
……第一天应当安排了最后一天，蛇的尾巴应当正好在那个时候回归到它的嘴里，它们应当回到它们的出生日上，事实上是一个不寻常的一致性。 Carl Jung
卡尔容格 Swiss psychologist Carl Jung saw the ouroboros as an archetype and the basic mandala of alchemy. Jung defined the relationship of the ouroboros to alchemy:
瑞士心理学家卡尔容格看见这条衔尾蛇作为一种原型和炼金术的基本曼荼罗。容格定义了衔尾蛇与炼金术的关系： The alchemists, who in their own way knew more about the nature of the individuation process than we moderns do, expressed this paradox through the symbol of the uroboros, the snake that eats its own tail. In the age-old image of the uroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man himself.
炼金术士，以自己的方式得知的自然个性化进展比我们今天懂得的还多，通过这种标记解释了这种似非而是的论点，蛇咬着自己的尾巴。在古老岁月的蛇肖像里，说着吞吃自己和回归自己到一个循环进程中的谎言思想，因为更多机敏的炼金术士清楚，这种艺术的原初母亲正是人类自己。 The ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This 'feed-back' process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the uroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilises himself and gives birth to himself. He symbolises the One, who proceeds from the clash of opposites, and he therefore constitutes the secret of the prima materia which [...] unquestionably stems from man's unconscious'. (Collected Works, Vol. 14 para.513)
“衔尾蛇”是与影子对立面综合与同化的一个戏剧性标记。这种“来回”过程同时也是一个永恒的标记，据说他是杀死了自己又给自己带来生命，喂养他自己和诞生了他自己。他象征着“一”，从对立面的冲突中得益，因此他也隐藏着原初之母，那是……（缺失），无疑地是由人的无意识引发的。（Collected Works, Vol. 14 para.513） Celestial Symbology
天体的标志 The Ouroboros is believed to have been inspired by the Milky Way,
as some ancient texts refer to a serpent of light residing in the heavens.
衔尾蛇据说是由天上的银河的灵魂而来，正如一些古籍所提及，是居住在天空中的光明之蛇。 Sagittarius - The Archer is in the heart of the summer Milky Way.
人马座——弓箭是夏天银河的心脏
The center of our Milky Way Galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius.
我们银河系的中央位于人马座里 The Eye of a Galaxy
银河系的眼睛
The Milky Way Galaxy is the inspiration for the symbol of the Ouroboros. Myth refers to a serpent of light residing in the heavens. The Milky Way is this serpent, and viewed at galactic central point near Sagittarius, this serpent eats its own tail. The Milky Way galaxy keeps a great time cycle that ends in catastrophic change. The sign of the Suntelia Aion is the sun rising out of the mouth of the ouroboros, which will occur on the solstice December 2012 - which links with the Mayan Calendar as a symbolic date for the clse our our reality - virtual reality program - Quetzalcoatl - and escalating Earth changes in the Ring of Fire.
银河系是衔尾蛇标记的灵感。神话提到了居住在天空的光明之蛇。银河系就是这条蛇，在人马座附近的极大中心点上观看着，这条蛇吃着自己的尾巴。银河系保持相当长的一段时间，周期在灾难性的变化中结束。Suntelia Aion的标记是太阳从蛇的口中升起来，将会发生在2012年12月的冬至日上——与玛雅历法相连接，与我们的现实有关——虚幻的真实过程——羽蛇神——在火的包围的变化中从地面上逐步升起来。
The Greeks called this End of the Age the Suntelia Aion. Ancient historians and especially Plato referred to a cycle of catastrophe at the End of the Age. The AION was symbolized by the Ouroboros.
希腊人把这个终结的时期称为Suntelia Aion.古代历史学家，尤其是析拉图提到了终结时期的灾难性循环。AION是衔尾蛇的标记。
The galactic center of the galaxy is 26 degrees 54 minutes Sagittarius. It approaches 27 degrees 0 minutes in the year 2010. In the year 2012 the galactic center is 27 degrees and 1 minute.
银河系的中心是半人马座26度54分。它在2010年接近27度0分。在2012年，银河系中心是27度1分。
27+1=10=1+0=1 = New Beginnings
27+1=10=1=0=1=新的开始
If your birthday is on or around December 18th - you are aligned with the sun pointing to the center of the galaxy. People born on this date include my friends George, Robert and Steven Spielberg! You could also have the Galactic Center as Sun, Ascendant, Midheaven, or other sensitive point in your charts.
如果你的生日是在12月18日或者左右——你就与银河系中心的太阳点连成一行。在这天出生的人包括我的朋友乔治罗伯特和史蒂文！你应该也有银河系中心点，比如太阳，运星和子午圈，或者在你的图表上的<敏感詞>敏感点。
The Ouroboros and the Tree of Life
衔尾蛇（龙）与生命之树（加起上来好像是“龙树”） The Double Triangle of Solomon
双重的所罗门三角形
Stylized Ouroboros in a medieval alchemy lab in Heidelberg
固定化的衔尾蛇存放在海德尔堡的中世纪炼金术室里 Janus 1608
两面神：1608 The Ouroboros is the connection between man and God.
衔尾蛇是人与神之间的连结 Chinese Ouroboros from Chou dynasty, 1200 BC.
中国的衔尾蛇是从公元前1200年的周朝开始 Pre 1400 Japan
公元前1400年的日本
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India
印度
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Native American
美洲土著
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Earthly Ouroboros from Alciato's Emblems
阿尔西托象征的大地之蛇
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Oceanic Ouroboros from Alciato's Emblems
阿尔西托象征的海洋衔尾蛇 Late 1700's
十八世纪后期 Emblem of the Theosophical Society
通神学会的微章
Ouroboros这个词，在通用的Robert法语词典上是查不到的，这个拉丁词汇词源古希腊语 ουροβοροs，后被拉丁化成 uroborus ，继而变成名词ouroboros，意为绕成环形，口中吞尾首尾相衔的蛇环或是龙环。拆开看，“ouro”就是希伯来语中的“王（roi），“ob”则是“蛇”（serpent）。很多情况下环形蛇以双蛇反绕形式出现，或是龙蛇互缠相衔，这里龙蛇的区分大部分以有无脚与齿须来判断。 环形蛇与蛇王几乎是最早出现的神话隐喻之一了。几乎在全世界古老文明的任何地域，都有关于龙蛇象征的文化遗迹。在古埃及，环形蛇主要的象征是宇宙四神的统一。说到这里，我们来重温一下埃及神谱。
万神之始的落日太阳神Atum创造了天空女神Nut，大地之神Geb，空气之神Shu和雨云女神Tefnut。
Atum的这两对儿女分别结成了夫妻，天空女神Nut嫁给了弟弟大地之神Geb，空气之神Shu娶了妹妹水气女神。Nut先后诞下4个儿女，分别是：
冥神欧西瑞斯Osiris，守护女神爱西斯Isis，邪恶之神赛斯Seth以及女神奈菲斯Nephthys。
然后又是兄妹通婚，Osiris娶了妹妹Isis，Nephthys嫁给了哥哥Seth。
但是Seth垂涎Isis的美丽，便想害死哥哥Osiris。Seth骗Osiris说找到了一个非常漂亮的金棺，谁能够睡进去，他就把金棺送给谁。Osiris中计的试着躺进棺材，Seth即刻关上了盖子，把Osiris杀死在棺中。后又把其兄长碎成14块，撒在了埃及的各个角落。
伤心的Isis寻遍了埃及大地，把找到的Osiris的身体碎块用裹尸布包扎起来，双手交错置于胸前使之重生。这也就是后来笃信死能复生的法老们要把自己的尸身制作成木乃伊，并捆扎成双手交错的姿势的原因。
复生后Osiris与Isis这对恩爱夫妻又生下了著名的天空之神何若斯Horus。Horus以鹰为化身，故经常被描画成人身鹰首的形象。又称鹰神。 在这里，象征宇宙四神统一的蛇环意旨的四神，即冥神Osiris，守护女神Isis，（也就是希腊罗马神话里的Diana），鹰神Horus（象征王权守护者），邪恶之神赛斯Seth（埃及十九王朝为其翻案，视其为伟大的沙漠之神）。 首尾相衔的深意即是:自行繁衍。通常在西方宗教哲学史中，蛇环是诺斯替教（Gnostcism），神秘主义（l’hermétisme），炼金术（l’alchimie），通神论（la théosophie）的主要象征。据说炼金术士们都佩戴蛇形手镯，而以此繁衍而生的古代化学，延续到今天，也不忘在分子绵延相套的环，链结构里，继续眷享着蛇王的隐喻。
纵观古代神话，蛇环与蛇王的寓意随着时代的变迁在不断的更新变换，但其寓意里最佳的诠释莫过于宇宙时光的循环观念。古埃及的人们相信，宇宙中，时光的每一次循环都比<敏感詞>任何事物的生灭更加完美准确的回到起点。重新开始的另一段时光是颠倒，倒置，对立而逆向于前一段时光的，这种观念早在一万五千年前的中古世纪就根深蒂固了。待到基督降生，西方世界里这种时间循环论被线性空间论所完全替代。线性空间论主张世界有创始的开端，更有最后的判决日。有生，有灭。此时蛇王在神秘主义神学家与炼金术里还是代表着相当重要的意义：物质的精炼提升的过程。首尾相衔的环形蛇图案此时更加鲜明的象征时光永恒，永生的神的力量以及宇宙生生不息的循环。
待到意大利文艺复兴时期，蛇神象征又与多神教的复兴以及新柏拉图主义相遇，并因此被再次赋予象征道德与精神上的智慧能量的标志。
我一直认为古代人们对于事物的感知能力是超凡的，两级四元素八方开来，特别是在神话溯源里，竟是世界大同的。我国的环形龙案在出土的夏商时代的铜玉礼器纹样标徽中相当普遍，其阴阳轮转的意义也是图腾氏族的精神动力之一。环形蛇图案很多纵身看去是半黑半白的，象征大地与天空两种相对因素的统一。象征一切原始的内心力量的集合。从龙蛇象征里，我们可以发现更多古代东西方文明的图腾式象征的相似之处。如不死鸟（Phénix）即凤凰涅磐的神话。此鸟在燃烧的灰烬中可以重生，并因此得到肉体与精神的双重升华，得到永生。而较少提到的是那燃烧的灰烬，代表宇宙四种基本元素，意喻不死鸟为人们肉身与灵魂的净化，象征光明永恒。
在古典主义宗教神话题材的绘画中，象征与隐喻永远是绘画的主旨。有兴趣的尽可以研究一下Luca Giordano，或是Giulio Romano十六，十七世纪的神话题材作品。
而在古代北欧神话中的Ouroboros，中译名为乌洛波洛斯（衔尾蛇）。象征着宇宙的统一和永远，用嘴咬住自己的尾巴，构成８字形的蛇，本来是古代北欧神话中，它头尾相衔，雌雄同体，盘绕着整个世界的巨蛇，那奇妙的姿态象征着“不死”、“完全”、“无限”、“世界”、“睿智”等等种种意味，自身却渐渐脱却了客观存在，成为象征性的存在。
Ouroboros中译乌洛波洛斯，可能与Sumerian中期的创世神话有关，在乌尔遗址发现的一块制作于西元二十二世纪的泥板上，绘有目前发现最早的Ouroboros，Sumerian认为这一种神物是创世者的仆从。
这一种神物向东迁移，一度定居于波斯高原动部的埃兰，埃兰人管它们叫Tud’ieh，意为“重新组织”，中国的“饕餮”很可能就来源于埃兰语的Tud’ieh。
最大的Ouroboros可以长到几百里长，它们的头长得像牛的头，它们的身体长得像龙的身体，但没有龙一般的鬣鬃与鳞甲。Ouroboros拥有永远无法填平的食欲，它们会将自己所到的地方所有可以吃的物质全部吞食，它们甚至会吞食质地较软的石灰岩。Ouroboros分布在黑暗阴冷的北方的山中，每隔五百年呼吸一次，呼吸的气息就变化成人间的飓风。呼吸的时候，Ouroboros张开嘴，吞食下所有被飓风带来的物质，经过精确的分解与重组，Ouroboros将物质送回人间。
作者：杀戮的死亡天使
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