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Simbolismo
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UROBOROS
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Uroboros is in the simplest meaning a snake that bites its own
tail. It can be found today in any market of craftsmanship and
custom jewelry: bracelets of this form and earrings are visible
often set to women of every age… After all, the charm
of the snake, positive animal and not negative as instead it
is painted by the Christianity, it is difficult to reject for
the call to the ancestral strengths that it emanates. In fact
the snake recalls the eternity to become that follows a cyclical
run, as the galaxy rotates on itself and contains, from a terrestrial
point of view, the whole sky. The call is that of the Taoist
snakes represented by Yin and Yang, symbolizing the dualistic
nature of all the things. Obvious that such emblem has a tied
up meaning to the concept of death and rebirth, of reincarnation
and of ciclicity of the life like the becoming of the seasons. |
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As the planet
Earth "it dies" to every winter and it revives in spring,
equally the living beings have to intend their existence,
also and above all spiritual, in this way. The uroboros therefore
it is the cosmic egg; it is the androgynous one; it is the
time; it is entirely the evolution that returns to unity.
An amazing concept surely that has obviously been absorbed
and done really from the medieval alchemy and in the first
centuries of the Current Era also from the neoplatonic philosophical-hermetic
tides and from the Gnosticism f Christian derivation. Just
in the most heterodox Christianity the snake assumed new meanings,
reaching to melt itself with the concept of internal awareness
of the eternity return of the soul, in accord with the first
proto-christian conceptions that had done proper the tendencies
of reincarnation of the spirit absorbed by the Indo-Buddhists
philosophies.
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| (Right) The incredibile Uroboros
carved on the tomb of the Italy's writer Giacomo Leopardi, at
the Parco Virgiliano
near Naples. In a megalithic scenery, the poet, living in the
'800, is celebrating with many patent cross and this fantastic
symbolism: the Uroroboros surround the lamp and the fire, symbol
of the Sophia, the Knowledge, and the owl, emblem of Goddess
Athena. |
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