#Ouroboros

[noise-vs-signal]

Communication via Symbols

The subconscious (surrounding consciousness) communicates in symbols because they transmit more meaning than words.

A single symbol - a serpent biting its tail, a cup overflowing, a tower struck by lightning - packs layers of instinct, myth, personal memory and cultural history into one image.

Words arrive one after another; a symbol blooms all at once. You receive shape, colour, emotion, movement, spatial relationship, even somatic feeling in a single gestalt. That simultaneity mirrors the way unconscious cognition actually works: associative, multidimensional and nonlinear.

An archetypal symbol never exhausts itself under analysis; it keeps refracting new meanings as you re-encounter it in different states of mind. That open-endedness invites the conscious ego to keep returning, deepening the dialogue with the surrounding currents that generated it.

[scaphismpriest]

made this instead of relapsing

[thunderbottle]

drew this as fast as i possibly could. yay okay now you do it too

[a-taller-tree-or-something]

OUROBOROS APPRECIATION POST

[tiffanysabrinatattoo]

Picta Poesis (1552) Barthélemy Aneau

[feather-bone]

[ID: a watercolor painting of a 12-winged rainbow serpent with a sun and moon on a green patterned background. end.]

Celestial Ouroboros

(original available here until claimed)

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Ouroboros, sculpture by Ellen Jewett

[gingerhaole]

The snake eats itself... but wouldn't you like the job instead? Crowley, fashion pharoah 🖤✨️

[oceansubconscious]

Vergil, in a cycle of fracture and repair.

[loop i. separately] — to begin with, I must break myself of the arrogance that broke me

[loop ii. separately] — again, with percision to heal this old fracture and let it grow correct and forgiving myself

[complete] — I must break myself again with percision to heal this old fracture and let it grow correct and forgiving (myself) of the arrogance that broke me to begin with,

I've been obsessed with the idea of how Vergil can be the embodiment of ouroboros. He breaks himself into two, into V and Urizen, and reabsorbs himself in a cycle of fracture and repair. Like a broken bone that healed wrong and has to be broken again to set correctly.

I broke my brain trying to write this. Could it have been much easier to compose if I used a snake looping once instead of twice? Yes. Did I have to make the two loops readable separately and together? No, but damn it I just had to write two different lines with the word 'myself' being the crux that linked it all. I couldn't resist. It's agony for me but perfect for Vergil!

See below the cut my utterly messy attempts at trying to connect the two lines into something that loops:

[artsarasp]

The demon realm's most popular ship is doing numbers!

From chapter 5 of "Ouroboros" by @mira-eyeteeth !

[mobius-m-mobius]

#obsessed with their priorities

[illustratus]

[marvelgifs]

LOKI S02E02 Breaking Brad

[weirdlookindog]

Luigi Conconi (1852–1917) - “Ruit Hora”, c. 1893-96

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