OUROBOROS, cloth bag

OUROBOROS or uroborus, a dragon or serpant eating its own tail, originated in ancient Egyptian iconography and was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and mainly alchemy; a symbol of a cyclical nature of the universe. The famous ouroboros drawing from the early alchemical text, The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra, encloses the words hen to pan (ἓν τὸ πᾶν), The all is one.

• Size: 35 x 40 cm