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“You are the oracle, I am the serpent. You speak to me, I speak to you. I open my mouth. I give you dreams, prophecies, terrifying visions. I open my mouth. Violent torrents of water belch forth. I kill you. You die. I create you. You live. I take and give. Again and again, endlessly. This is my tale. I bite my tail for eternity. You ride my back, forever.”
— Ananta Shesha
The ouroboros has been said to have a meaning of infinity or wholeness. In the age old image of the ouroboros 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. The ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This feedback process is at the same time a symbol of immortality since it is said of the ouroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilizes himself, and gives birth to himself. He symbolizes 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.
Mysterium Coniunctionis
Carl Jung
Tuesday Riddell — Fuscia Snake (23.5 karat gold leaf, silver leaf, gold & silver powder, pigment and paint on lacquered board, 2022)
Anantashayana
Form of Vishnu immersed in meditation and lying on the serpent of eternity Ananta, which is located in the Govindaraja temple inside the Chidambaram shrine. This major pilgrimage center of Tamil Nadu is located on the Vellar River, fifty kilometers from Pondicherry. Chidambaram is one of the most sacred places in Shaivism because it is there that Shiva performed the dance of bliss (ananda-tandava) on the body of the dwarf Apasmara (the man without memory). Shiva is therefore worshiped there in the form of Nataraja, the cosmic dancer. The second painting represents an utsavamurti of Vishnu sitting on the serpent Shesha.
rohini // mrigashira
purva bhadrapada // uttara bhadrapada
from rohini to mrigashira the snake travels thru soul and body and leaves a trail of cosmic essence — rohana shakti (growth; power of creation, giving form to the formless) and prinana shakti (fulfilment; weaving threads of joy, a full cup about to spill)
from p.bhadrapada to u.bhadrapada the snake is granted its own body an existence outside of the realm of the senses — yajamana udyamana shakti (awakening spirituality; the giver, the hand that feeds) and varshodyamana shakti (the rain; the cleansing, the renewal of life)
Sweet (and adorable) combination of multiple pairs of arms with an ophidioform lower body.
Adoptable 12-59 by *fydbac
Four (or more)-armed nagas are best nagas. Hair's a big bonus.
characo 067: Rajan by *fydbac
I'm intrigued by the object/device held in the coils of his tail. It doesn't seem to be a weapon.
Roberto Ferri
ayyy
So much love, snakey love
happy snake family :v
year of the snake ayyy
Those hex-shield scales. Genius!
Commission for Otaku1811. The snake tail was really fun to work on!