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ouroboros
(mythology) A serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
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Khepera eating his own seed is a model of Romantic creativity, where the self is isolated and sexually dual. Khepera bent over himself is a uroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, a magic circle of regeneration and rebirth. The uroboros is the prehistoric track of natural cycle, from which Judaism and Hellenism make a conceptual break.
(by extension) Anything of a circular or recursive nature.