Album (Metalcore) - Uroboros, Suicide Season, Scream Aim Fire, the Poison, Living Shades, Iconoclast, the End of Heartache (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Uroboros, Suicide Season, Scream Aim Fire, the Poison, Living Shades, Iconoclast, the End of Heartache, Alive or Just Breathing, Killswitch Engage, as Daylight Dies, Artefakt, Enigma, Count Your Blessings. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: The Ouroboros or Uroborus is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. The Ouroboros often represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end (compare with phoenix). It can also represent the idea of primordial unity related to something existing in or persisting from the beginning with such force or qualities it cannot be extinguished. The ouroboros has been important in religious and mythological symbolism, but has also been frequently used in alchemical illustrations, where it symbolizes the circular nature of the alchemist's opus. It is also often associated with Gnosticism, and Hermeticism. Carl Jung interpreted the Ouroboros as having an archetypal significance to the human psyche. The Jungian psychologist Erich Neumann writes of it as a representation of the pre-ego "dawn state", depicting the undifferentiated infancy experience of both mankind and the individual child. Plato described a self-eating, circular being as the first living thing in the universe-an immortal, mythalogicaly constructed beast. The living being had no need of eyes when there was nothing remaining outside him to be seen; nor of ears when there was nothing to be heard; and there was no surrounding atmosphere to be breathed; nor would there have been any use of organs by the help of which he might receive his food or get rid of what he had already digested, since there was nothing which went from him or came into him: for there was nothing beside him. Of design he was created thus, his own waste...http://booksllc.net/?l=de