大毒蛇 毒蛇, 印度, 埃及, 煉金術, 美洲

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Ouroboros is an ancient alchemy symbol depicting a snake or dragon [DNA] swallowing its own tail, constantly creating itself and forming a circle. It is the Wheel of Time - The Alchemy Wheel - 12 Around 1 to manifest grid programs that give the illusion of linear time allowing souls to experience emotions.
大毒蛇是一個古老的煉金術標記----被描繪成蛇或龍（DNA），吞着它自己的尾部,不繼地創造自身和形成一個圓形.這是時間之輪---煉金術之輪------12圍繞1,(應該指十二因緣和天明)

Ouroboros is associated with Alchemy -- Gnosticism and Hermeticism. It represents the cyclical nature of things, eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end.
大毒蛇為煉金術--------諾斯替主義和赫姆提卡主連結在一起,它代表大自然萬的循環,沒完沒了的來來回回,和其他代表循的事物,起始又是結束

In some representations the serpent is shown as half light and half dark, echoing symbols such as the Yin Yang, which illustrates the dual nature of all things, but more importantly, that these opposites are not in conflict.
在一些表示裡面,大毒蛇表現為半黑半白,就像陰和陽象征的反射現象,代明了萬物的二元性,但更重要的是,這些對立面並不沖突.

Origins of the Ouroboros
大毒蛇的起源

The serpent or dragon eating its own tail has survived from antiquity and can be traced back to Ancient Egypt, circa 1600 B.C.E.
大毒蛇或者正在吞吃自己的尾巴這個保存下來的古代遺物可以追溯到古代埃及,大約公元前1600年左右

From there it passed to Phoenicia and then to the Greek philosophers, who gave it the name Ouroboros ("the tail-devourer")
以腓尼基到希臘哲學家,都把它命名為Ouroboros（“吞吃尾巴者”）。

Norse Mythology - the serpent Jormungand, one of the 3 children of Loki - the Trickster who grew so large that it could encircle the world and grasp its tail in its teeth.
挪威神話——大毒蛇Jormungand，火神洛基的三個孩子之一如此巨大的魔法師,以致可以包圍世界和尾巴放進自己的嘴裡.

Hindu Mythology - the dragon circling the tortoise which supports the four elephants that carry the world.
印度神话——包圍繞着代表世界四根支柱的四只海龜上.

The serpent or dragon also appears in Aztec, Chinese, and Native American mythology.
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大毒蛇或者也出現阿兹特克人,中國和美洲土著神話裡

Christians adopted the Ouroboros as a symbol of the limited confines of this world (that there is an "outside" being implied by the demarcation of an inside), and the self-consuming transitory nature of a mere this-worldly existence following in the footsteps of the Preacher in Ecclesiastes.
基督教採用大毒蛇作為這個世界有限界標記(那就是有限的划分之外還有無限），自我強烈只是一個這個世界瞬間存在的本性.
延着《傳道經》上傳教士的足跡

It could very well be used to symbolize the closed-system model of the universe of some physicists even today.
今天也可以用作表示一些物理事件上的宇宙封閉系統


Symbology behind the Ouroboros
大毒蛇背後的象征


The ouroboros has several meanings interwoven into it. Foremost is the symbolism of the serpent biting, devouring, eating its own tail. This symbolises the cyclic Nature of the Universe: creation out of destruction, Life out of Death. The ouroboros eats its own tail to sustain its life, in an eternal cycle of renewal. In the above drawing, from a book by an early Alchemist, Cleopatra, the black half symbolises the Night, Earth, and the destructive force of nature, yin. the light half represents Day, Heaven, the generative, creative force, yang.
大毒蛇的含著幾個象征意像.首先是首先是象征着像蛇一般地咬，吞吃，吃自己的尾巴。這個宇宙的轆轉標記,創造之外是毁滅,生命之外是死亡.大毒蛇吃著自己的尾巴來支特自己的生命,在一種永恒的更新周期裡.

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Alchemy
煉金術


Alchemically, the ouroboros is also used as a purifying glyph. Ouroboros was and is the name for the Great World Serpent, encircling the Earth.
煉金術上,大毒蛇也被用作一個淨化的標記.大毒蛇是世界大毒蛇,包圍著地球.



The word Ouroboros is really a term that describes a similar symbol which has been cross-pollinated from many different cultures. Its symbolic connotation from this owes to the returning cyclical nature of the seasons; the oscillations of the night sky; self-fecundation; disintegration and re-integration; truth and cognition complete; the Androgyne; the primaeval waters; the potential before the spark of creation; the undifferentiated; the Totality; primordial unity; self-sufficiency, and the idea of the beginning and the end as being a continuous unending principle.
“大毒蛇”是一个真正的術語,描繪一種相似的標記,以很多文化中心交替地出現,它含蓄地象征着季節的來回循環,黑夜的振動:自我受胎瓦解和综合；真理和理解的完成,雌雄同体；原始的水,濳在創世紀火花,  無差別性  ,  整體       :原初的合一,    自給自足,   象徵無休止的永怛法則下的開始和終結


Ouroboros represents the conflict of life as well in that life comes out of life and death. 'My end is my beginning.' In a sense life feeds off itself, thus there are good and bad connotations which can be drawn. It is a single image with the entire actions of a life cycle - it begets, weds, impregnates, and slays itself, but in a cyclical sense, rather than linear.
大毒蛇描繪了生命的沖突,同時也伴隨差著生命為死亡.     "我的終結也是我的開始".這樣一種生命義意來慰養著自,因此可以描繪出好為
壞的內涵.它是一個整個生命周期活動的標記-------誕生,   結婚,, 懷孕,然後殺死自己, 但是在循環的意義上,而不是綫性的.

Thus, it fashions our lives to a totality more towards what it may really be - a series of movements which repeat. "As Above, So Below" - we are born from nature, and we mirror it, because it is what man wholly is a part of. It is this symbolic rendition of the eternal principles that are presented in the Emerald Tablets of Thoth.
以而,改變了我們整個生命,;更加地朝血真實----------------一系列重複運作."上如是,下亦如是"-----------------我們生於自然,我們也反射了它,因此這個是人完全是其中一部分.這是表現永恒法則象徵,描繪在透特神的裴翠石版上。



The Ouroboros connects the Above and Below
大毒蛇的連结：上面和下面

Born from this symbolic notion, there are many different cultures which share this great dragon-serpent symbol (the serpent Jormungandr, from the myth of Yggdrasil, is just one). There are some cultures thatsee the image as not being beneficial, but evil - like Satan. These more specific re-interpretations will be spoken of later.
出自這種象徵性的概念,很多不同的文化都共同擁有這條為蛇的標記(大毒蛇Jormungandr，以Yggdrasil的神話而来，是其中一個)
一些文化可以看到這個象徵不是正面的,而是邪惡的-----就像撒旦.更加詳細的重新解將在後面說明.
It is of interest to mention that a symbol such as that of the Ouroboros is something which Carl Jung refers to as an archetype; it seems to makes its way into our conscious mind time and time again in varying forms. The 19th century German chemist named Kekule dreamed of a snake with its tail in its mouth one day after dosing off. He had been researching the molecular structure of benzene, and was at a stop point in his work until after waking up he interpreted the dream to mean that the structure was a closed carbon ring. This was the breakthrough he needed.
有趣的是大毒蛇作為一種標記,卡爾容格有時把它作為一種原型,它看起來似乎是我們頭腦的意識讓內制自己的習慣,以各種形式來周而復始,19世紀的德國化學家Kekule夢見一條把自己的尾巴放在自己的嘴裡的大毒蛇,一復一日.他研究笨的分子結構,在他工作短暫休息期間,直到他完成了自己的解夢,意味著這個分子結構為封閉的銅環相當相似,這是他必要的突破.

There is another mention of the Ouroboros laying at the edge of "the sea which surrounds the world," called Pontus. The Ouroboros encircles the Universe; everything known and unknown is encompassed in its embracing coils, supporting and maintaining the earthly balance. It injects life into death and death into budding life. Its form suggests immobility with its locked jaws upon itself, yet at the same time it pushes the insistent message of perpetual movement through its twined coils. The first clues to this symbol go back as far as 1600-1700 BC in Egypt. Through the years the serpent moved on to the Phoenicians and the Greeks-who were what gave it the name "Ouroboros." The Greek translation means, "tail eater."
這是對大毒蛇的另種說法,蛇躺在"包圍世界的海洋"岸邊上,稱為本都.大毒蛇環繞宇宙;每一樣知道同未知的事都包圍在內,支撐和維持地球的平衡.它注入了生命到死亡裡面,死亡又進入萌芽的生命裡,它形狀暗示了它上面鎖定狹口的堅定不移,同時又通過永久的運動的堅特不懈的消息它的纏繞的圈.這個標記第一綫索可以回溯到公元前600年至1700年的埃及。隨著年歲,大毒蛇移動到腓尼基和希臘---給予“Ouroboros”的名字,希臘的意思是"尾巴吞吃者".

All is One!" cries this Ouroboros from Alexandrian Egypt.
亚历山大时期埃及的大毒蛇声称：一即一切

The Serpent Ouroboros" from ancient Egypt.
古代埃及的“大毒蛇”

Papyrus of Dama Heroub Egypt, 21st Dynasty
埃及纸草文书


Seven-segmented Aztec Ouroboros.
阿芝台克的七节大毒蛇

This is an Aztec Ouroboros (with proportions that even Hermes would have found pleasing) originally from: Project Ouroborus at the University of Minnesota, which has a large and diverse selection of these impressive archtypes. The following commentary from this source links with what has already been said and also adds further points of interest:
這是阿兹特克人的蛇(比例甚至連赫爾墨也感覺完美),源自:明尼蘇達州大學的Ouroborus計算,這些給人深刻印象的拱形物有巨大的變化化同多樣性的選擇.以下注解是源自巳經提到過的資料有關來源,也進一步加上重要的地.
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This symbol appears principally among the Gnostics and is depicted as a dragon, snake or serpent biting its own tail. In the broadest sense, it is symbolic of time and the continuity of life. It sometimes bears the caption Hen to pan - 'The One, the All', as in the Codex Marcianus, for instance, of the 2nd century A.D. It has also been explained as the union between the chthonian principle as represented by the serpent and the celestial principal as signified by the bird (a synthesis which can also be applied to the dragon).
這個標記主要地出現在諾斯替派裡面,被描繪成一條龍,蛇或大毒蛇,自己咬著自己尾,在廣泛的感知裡面,它是時間和生命連續性的象徵.它有時具有Hen to pan的標記------"一即一切",例如,在公元二世紀的馬西亞文獻裡面,它也說明了地獄法則為天堂法則的聯合,大毒蛇作為地獄的法則,鳥作為天堂法則(也可以用於為一種綜合)

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Ruland contends this proves that it is a variant of the symbol for Mercury - the duplex god. In some versions of the Ouroboros, the body is half light and half dark, alluding in this way to the successive counterbalancing of opposing principls as illustrated in the Chinese Yin-Yang symbol for instance. Evola asserts that it represents the dissolution of the body, or the universal serpent which (to quote the Gnostic saying) 'passes through all things'.
罗兰主张这原来是墨丘利神（众神的信使）的各种不同标记——双面的神。在一些版本的蛇里面，身体是半黑半白，以这种方式暗指相反律则的连续性平衡，例如在中国阴和阳的插图上表现出来。伊沃拉断言它代表了身体的分解（我觉得法性的分解比身体贴切些），或者宇宙的大毒蛇（引自诺斯替派的话语）“穿过了万物”。
羅蘭主張原來是墨丘利神（眾神的信使)的各種不同的標記------眾面的神.在一些版本的蛇裡面,身體是半黑半白,以這種方暗示相反侓則的連續平衡,例如在中國陰和陽的插圖上表現出來,伊沃拉斷它代表了身體的分解(我覺得法性的分解比身體更合切些)或者宇宙的大毒蛇(引自諾斯替教派話語)"穿過了萬物"

Poison, the viper and the universal solvent are all symbols of the undifferentiated-of the 'unchanging law' which moves through all things, linking them by a common bond. Both the dragon and the bull are symbolic antagonists of the solar hero. The Ouroboros biting its own tail is symbolic of self-fecundation, or the primitive idea of a self-sufficient Nature - a Nature, that is which, ?la Nietzsche, continually returns, within a cyclic pattern, to its own beginning. There is a Venetian manuscript on alchemy which depicts the Ouroboros with its body half-black (symbolizing earth and night) and half-white (denoting heaven and light).
毒葯,毒蛇和普遍的溶解力是所有無差別的標記-----不變的法則"透過萬物來運行,用共同的連結把它們=連起上來,龍和公牛都是太陽神萬雄對手的對手的象徵.蛇咬着自己的尾巴是一個自我受胎的象徵.或者一個自給自足的自然界的原初思想--------那是一種自然,尼采在一種循環的模式中不斷回來.蛇回到疕的源頭,威尼斯的煉金術手搞描繪著大毒蛇的半黑半白的身體.（代表着地球和黑夜，以及天堂和白天）。


As a symbol of the eternal unity of all things, the cycle of birth and death from which the alchemist sought release and liberation, it was familiar to the alchemist/physician Sir Thomas Browne. In his A letter to a friend, a medical treatise full of case-histories and witty speculations upon the human condition, he wrote of it:
作為把萬物統一的一標記.煉金術士把這種誕生和死亡的周期視作釋放和解放,為煉金術士/醫師托馬斯布朗爵士相似。在他給朋友的一封信裡面, 一篇充滿病歷的醫學論文,加上人類自身社會條件之上的富於機智的思索,他寫道:

[...] that the first day should make the last, that the Tail of the Snake should return into its Mouth precisely at that time, and they should wind up upon the day of their Nativity, is indeed a remarkable Coincidence.
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第一天應當安排了最後一天,蛇的尾巴當然正好在那個時候,回到它的嘴裡,它們應當回到它們的出生日上,事實上是一個不尋常的一致性

Carl Jung
卡爾容格

Swiss psychologist Carl Jung saw the ouroboros as an archetype and the basic mandala of alchemy. Jung defined the relationship of the ouroboros to alchemy:
瑞士心理學家卡爾容格看見這條大蛇作為一種原型和.煉金術的基本曼陀羅.容格定義了大毒蛇為.煉金術的關系


The alchemists, who in their own way knew more about the nature of the individuation process than we moderns do, expressed this paradox through the symbol of the uroboros, the snake that eats its own tail. In the age-old image of the uroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man himself.
煉金術士,以自己的方式得知自然個性化進展比我們今天懂得的還多,通過這種標記解釋了這種似非而是的論點,蛇咬著自己的尾巴,在古老歲月的蛇肖像裡,說著吞吃自己和回當自己到一個循環進程中的謊言思想,因為更多機敏的煉金術士清楚,這種藝術的原初母親正是人類自己

The ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This 'feed-back' process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the uroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilises himself and gives birth to himself. He symbolises the One, who proceeds from the clash of opposites, and he therefore constitutes the secret of the prima materia which [...] unquestionably stems from man's unconscious'. (Collected Works, Vol. 14 para.513)
"大毒蛇"是為影子對立面綜合為同化一個對抗性的標記.這種"來回"過程同時也是一個永怛的標記.據說他是殺死了自己又給自己帶來生命,慰養他自己和誔生了他自己,他象徵著"一"以對立面的衝突中得益,因此他也隱藏著原初之母,那是.................(缺失）無疑地是由人的無意引發的.(

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Celestial Symbology
天體的標誌

The Ouroboros is believed to have been inspired by the Milky Way,
as some ancient texts refer to a serpent of light residing in the heavens.
大毒蛇據說是由上天的艮河的靈魂而來,正如一些古籍所提及,是居住天空中的光明之蛇

Sagittarius - The Archer is in the heart of the summer Milky Way.
人馬座--------弓箭是夏天銀河的心臟



The center of our Milky Way Galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius.
我们银河系的中央位于人马座里


The Milky Way Galaxy is the inspiration for the symbol of the Ouroboros. Myth refers to a serpent of light residing in the heavens. The Milky Way is this serpent, and viewed at galactic central point near Sagittarius, this serpent eats its own tail. The Milky Way galaxy keeps a great time cycle that ends in catastrophic change. The sign of the Suntelia Aion is the sun rising out of the mouth of the ouroboros, which will occur on the solstice December 2012 - which links with the Mayan Calendar as a symbolic date for the clse our our reality - virtual reality program - Quetzalcoatl - and escalating Earth changes in the Ring of Fire.
銀河系是大毒蛇標記的靈感。神話提到了居住在天空的光明之蛇。銀河系就是這條蛇，在人馬座附近的極大中心點上觀看著，這條蛇吃著自己的尾巴。銀河系保持相當長的一段時間，週期在災難性的變化中結束。Suntelia Aion的標記是太陽從蛇的口中升起來，將會發生在2012年12月的冬至日上為瑪雅歷法相連接，與我們的現實有關

The Greeks called this End of the Age the Suntelia Aion. Ancient historians and especially Plato referred to a cycle of catastrophe at the End of the Age. The AION was symbolized by the Ouroboros.
希臘人把這個終結的時期稱為Suntelia Aion.古代歷史學家，尤其是析拉圖提到了終結時期的災難性循環。AION是大毒蛇的標記。

The galactic center of the galaxy is 26 degrees 54 minutes Sagittarius. It approaches 27 degrees 0 minutes in the year 2010. In the year 2012 the galactic center is 27 degrees and 1 minute.
銀河系的中心是半人馬座26度54分。它在2010年接近27度0分。在2012年，銀河系中心是27度1分。


27+1=10=1+0=1 = New Beginnings
27+1=10=1=0=1=新的開始


If your birthday is on or around December 18th - you are aligned with the sun pointing to the center of the galaxy. People born on this date include my friends George, Robert and Steven Spielberg! You could also have the Galactic Center as Sun, Ascendant, Midheaven, or other sensitive point in your charts.
如果你的生日是在12月18日或者左右

The Ouroboros and the Tree of Life
大毒蛇（龍）與生命之樹（加起上來好像是“龍樹”）

The Double Triangle of Solomon
雙重的所羅門三角形

Stylized Ouroboros in a medieval alchemy lab in Heidelberg
固定化的大毒蛇存放在海德爾堡的中世紀鍊金術室裡



Janus 1608
兩面神：1608



The Ouroboros is the connection between man and God.
大毒蛇是人與神之間的連結



Chinese Ouroboros from Chou dynasty, 1200 BC.
中國的大毒蛇是從公元前1200年的週朝開始


Pre 1400 Japan
公元前1400年的日本


India
印度


Native American
美洲土著


Earthly Ouroboros from Alciato\'s Emblems
阿爾西託象征的大地之蛇



Oceanic Ouroboros from Alciato\'s Emblems
阿爾西託象征的海洋大毒蛇



Late 1700\'s
十八世紀後期




Emblem of the Theosophical Society
通神學會的微章

資料圖片自http://www.crystalinks.com/

shayuu

其實我有個問題,
點解咁多唔同0既國家唔同0既宗教會出現同一個象徵?
我亦見有同個神祇出現係唔同0既宗教上,
點解??

satan

的確很奇怪..娜魔多不同文化都出現相似圖形... 還是所有文化本來就是原出一致....

gacktau

台東海生館展出的爬蟲動物出現一幕罕見的畫面，一尾產自美國的王蛇（king snake）可能餓昏了，上演活生生的自吞畫面，遊客現場目睹真實版的「蛇吞蛇」景象，大呼不可思議。（照片由海生館提供）
是題外話啦~!!
有問題,
我想知道有無一些國家或者宗教,
是有異見的呢?
無可能真的這樣一志嘛?

哈比人

一神教不是有異見嗎?撒旦嘛~
不過奇就奇在任何一個宗教故事都有蛇的影踪
如印度教濕婆象徵蛇火  佛教(佛祖臨得道前  曾經有條蛇探訪他)
中國的女媧半蛇身  好多好多

瓏瓏

正負是一定要的∼∼如果正太多負太少的話就不算是正常的∼∼為什麼會有這樣的圖片在不同的時代裡出現，或許是在跟人們說，當人們不正當的使用大自然的物資及過度始用，自然會被我們所發明的東西所吞食，而所有的一切將重新開始∼∼

ming1987a

樓主先多謝你的分享~
我對你分享的"阿芝台克的七节大毒蛇"
好有興趣可以多給我一些資料嗎