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Ouroboros
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The Ouroboros is a symbol typical of ancient Egypt and Greece depicting a serpent eating its own tail, signifying the cyclicality of something constantly re-creating itself. As a Gnostic and alchemical symbol, it expresses the unity of all things, material and spiritual, which never disappear but perpetually change form in an eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation. You will find this door knob and knocker in Via Ricasoli.
On December 19th, two days after this post was published, the above piece showed up on page XII of the local daily “Il Tirreno”: the text is copied verbatim from the Italian version of this blog. I think any further comment is unnecessary.
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14 comments:
Yes, must have one for my door! Maybe it would cut down on the number of solicitors. :-)
Very nice!
Interesting post.
Do you think the owners of this house chose the doorknocker because of its symbolism or because they liked the style?
I've learned something new this morning.
I'm sure this symbol popped up in a Dan Brown book too...
Duncan In Kuantan
I learned something today! I would have just thought this was a neat design. :)
Beautiful detail VP, I bet many passers-by do not even see it.
Beautiful.
Knock knock.
It is fun to say the word.
Beautiful find!
Chutspah! Can we write to them in protest?
Plagiarism makes me so angry. And the "author" even signed it!!!
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