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Symbol depicting a snake swallowing its tail
Answer for the clue "Symbol depicting a snake swallowing its tail ", 9 letters:
ouroboros
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Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a snake or dragon swallowing its tail. Ouroborus may also refer to:
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A serpent, dragon or worm who eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death. 2 A picture or symbol representing this.
Usage examples of ouroboros.
Given under My signeth of Ouroboros in My pallaice of Carcie thys xxix daie of may, beynge the vii daie of My yeare II.
It was the key that opened the gateway represented by the Ouroboros, just like in the dream.
Thereupon distilled from the neck of the alembic a white oil incombustible, and the King dipped his rod in that oil and described round the seven-pointed star on the floor the figure of the worm Ouroboros, that eateth his own tail.
Rightfully, having such a timeless life, this King weareth on his thumb that worm Ouroboros which doctors have from of old made for an ensample of eternity, whereof the end is ever at the beginning and the beginning at the end for ever more.
And there was the signet upon it of the worm Ouroboros in scarlet wax, and the sign manual of Gorice the King.
Floyt held up an Ouroboros ring, like the one the trader at the Grapple had tried to sell him, and demonstrated how to open the hidden compartments.
When I told him I thought I saw something moving out there he said it was the Ouroboros Serpent.