"The ouroboros or uroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The ouroboros entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in alchemy.
One of the earliest known ouroboros motifs is found in the Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld, an ancient Egyptian funerary text in KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the 14th century BCE. The text concerns the actions of the Ra and his union with Osiris in the underworld. The ouroboros is depicted twice on the figure: holding their tails in their mouths, one encircling the head and upper chest, the other surrounding the feet of a large figure, which may represent the unified Ra-Osiris (Osiris born again as Ra). Both serpents are manifestations of the deity Mehen, who in other funerary texts protects Ra in his underworld journey.
The whole divine figure represents the beginning and the end of time."
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Nicely done and, dare I say?, a nice invocation of Chip Ahoy.
I do believe the Demos have walked into their own trap letting a NeverTrump fanatic helm the latest persecution. Sitting on 600 pages of exculpatory evidence is the end of this little charade. It was always assumed to be thing gruel by the legal eagles, but they're in MaligNancy Pelosi territory now.
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