Ouroboros Tapestries
Description: Desert Ouroboros! Original design I did recently. Check out more of my work at @OGHPP Olivia Grimley Hand Painted Purses OliviaGrimleyDesign.com The ouroboros or uroborus is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. Originating in ancient Egyptian iconography, the ouroboros entered western tradition via Greek magical tradition and was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in alchemy.
Description: White Ouroboros! Original design I did recently. Check out more of my work at @OGHPP Olivia Grimley Hand Painted Purses OliviaGrimleyDesign.com The ouroboros or uroborus is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. Originating in ancient Egyptian iconography, the ouroboros entered western tradition via Greek magical tradition and was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in alchemy.
Description: The ouroboros representing death and rebirth, creation and destruction, constant renewal, evolution, infinity. The knife through the snake representing the fight, the struggle, the process. Together this symbol can be look at as continual growth through and pass pain, advancing past barriers, growing stronger through the process of life.
Description: Texture. Ouroboros: The snake eating its own tail represents the recreation of life through death by the Universe, in an eternal cycle of renewal. It can also represent the idea of primordial unity related to something existing in or persisting before any beginning with such force or qualities it cannot be extinguished. The mathematical symbol for infinity is said to be derived from a version of Ouroboros.
Description: The Ouroboros is a Greek word meaning "tail devourer," and is one of the oldest mystical symbols in the world. It can be perceived as enveloping itself, where the past (the tail) appears to disappear but really moves into an inner domain or reality, vanishing from view but still existing.
