Ouroboros
The Ouroboros
Ouroboros.
Today I watched a video learning about the ouroboros. The term actually comes from ancient Greece and is a symbol about a snake eating its own tail. It was a word used in a reading I had called All You Zombies so I researched it further to find the origin of the word.
The Symbol can also mean a paradox because it is about the eternal cycle of life and death, the snake eats its tail to survive, but because its eating itself its dying, so it is stuck in this cycle and can never leave.
The ancient Greek word comes from the oura tail and the boros, to eat. The Greek translation literally means "Tail-Eater". This does make me laugh because if it were translated into Spanish this would be a bad word.
Additionally, in this video, it is explained as a symbol that inspired the psychologist Carl Jung, and he explains that the ouroboros is synonymous with a mandala, or cycle. He compares it to the Ego, which in psychology is the infant psychological state of mind.
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