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== 2020==
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File:SassAdam4.jpg| The Ouroboros symbol. In this personal Symbology by Adam Sass, he writes about his discovery of the ouroboros symbol and its meaning [http://www.literate-lemur.com/ouroboros/ here]. (Sass A, 2003)
File:Trogerhof-Sgrafitti 1.JPG| Oroboros Sgrafitto. Another snapshot taken at Trogerhof in Tyrol, Austria. Symbolizing the ouroboros, an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.
File:Sphinga.JPG|The 'Sphinga' is from an artist who exhibited in Krumau (CZ). The Sphinga's tail ends in a snake head and is wrapped around her neck. The snake head touches her lips and results in a kiss which represents a closed circle, just as the Oroboros.
File:Oroboros austria library2.jpg|Oroboros spans the world - [[Doerrier C|Carolina Doerrier]] visited the library in Admont (June 2017), https://www.stiftadmont.at/en/library. She spotted two different Oroboros there. More pictures [https://wiki.oroboros.at/index.php/Oroboros_symbol#Oroboros_in_Austria here]
File:Krakow2.jpg|Oroboros spans the world - An excursion at the FLAWOPIRYNIA conference in Lodz to Krakow (2012-10-25 to 26) revealed a Ouroboros emblem in a crypt beneath the Wawel Cathedral  (photo by [[Watala C|Prof. Cezary Watala]]).
File:Copenhagen12.jpg|Oroboros spans the world - Before departing for the [[Greenland Expedition CMRC 2004|Greenland 2004 expedition]], Erich Gnaiger strolled through the Kierkegaard graveyard in Copenhagen, observing a suprising variety of Ouroboros emblems - symbols of transformation and eternal recycling
File:Ouroboros Jennis Lucas.jpg|Ouroboros by Lucas Jennis, in the 1625 alchemical tract De Lapide Philosophico. Ouroboros, a mythical dragon-snake that eats up itself, speaks to the cyclic nature of all things. Image of reflection and attentive reasoning, the Ouroboros can be related with each one of those things that, after having reached their end, start again, in an endless return.
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== 2019==
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File:Oroboros Winter.jpg|Our office will be closed for the Christmas holidays from 23rd December 2019 to 6th January 2020. We wish you a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year 2020! Your Oroboros team.
File:OroborosSylarna Schober Florian.jpg|I wanted to share the Oroboros I found while hiking in the Swedish countryside at Sylarna’s fjällstation in the middle of nowhere. - Schober Florian (Chair [[GRS on Mitochondria & Chloroplasts 2020 West Dover US|GRS 2020]])
File:Mountain at Shanghai Museum.jpg|Jade Ouroboros, Shang Dynasty, by Mountain at Shanghai Museum - [[Mahdihassan 1989 Am J Chin Med]]
File:AlexanderVonHumboldt.jpg |Ouroboros and Alexander von Humboldt - From: Olaf Breidbach (2006) "Visions of Nature: The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel". Prestel, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, page 52. Alexander von Humboldt thought an approach to science was needed that could account for the harmony of nature among the diversity of the physical world. For Humboldt, "the unity of nature" meant that it was the interrelation of all physical sciences—such as the conjoining between biology, meteorology and geology—that determined where specific plants grew. He found these relationships by unravelling myriad, painstakingly collected data
File:WorldwithoutEnd.jpg| As on the cover of Ken Follett's historical novel ''"World without End"'', describing the struggle of mankind to find the balance between old structures and progressive minds.
File:Solomon.jpg| "QVOD SVPERIVS EST EST EST SICVT ID QVOD INFERIVS" ("As above so below")
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== 2018==
== 2018==
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File:Oroborosdrache.gif|M. C. Escher: Dragon (wood-engraving, 1952). 'However much this dragon tries to be spatial, he remains completely flat. Two incisions are made in the paper on which he is printed. Then it is folded in such a way as to leave two square openings. But this dragon is an obstinate beast, and in spite of his two dimensions he persists in assuming that he has three; so he sticks his head through one of the holes and his tail through the other.
File:Horapollo.jpg| OUROBOROS, 1597. The Basilisk monster as an Ouroboros. Woodcut from an edition of Horapollo's 'Hieroglyphica,' printed in Rome, 1597. - [https://www.granger.com/results.asp?image=0096495&itemw=4&itemf=0001&itemstep=1&itemx=6&screenwidth=1920]
 
File:Australia_1.jpg| Native American Ouroboros. It is a common belief among indigenous people of the tropical lowlands of South America that waters at the edge of the world-disc are encircled by a snake, often an anaconda, biting its own tail. [http://www.crystalinks.com/ouroboros.html]
 
File:Oro37 2.jpg|Ouroboros — An Ancient Symbol that Survived Through Millennia;The ouroboros appears in the classic alchemical study, Atalanta Fugiens (1617), by the physician to Emperor Rudolf II, Michael Maier (Credit: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) - [https://www.corespirit.com/ouroboros-ancient-symbol-survived-millennia/ By Percy Ramsey]
 
File:Oroborosdrache.gif| M. C. Escher: Dragon (wood-engraving, 1952). 'However much this dragon tries to be spatial, he remains completely flat. Two incisions are made in the paper on which he is printed. Then it is folded in such a way as to leave two square openings. But this dragon is an obstinate beast, and in spite of his two dimensions he persists in assuming that he has three; so he sticks his head through one of the holes and his tail through the other.  
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File:Cosmic Oro.jpg|Cosmic Ouroboros By Adams and Primack [http://scalometer.wikispaces.com/Primack,+Joel Scalometer]. Phycisist Prof. Joel Primack and his wife, lawyer/philosophe Nancy Abrams, also use the ouroboros to visually describe quantum and cosmic realtionships.  
File:Cosmic Oro.jpg|Cosmic Ouroboros By Adams and Primack [http://scalometer.wikispaces.com/Primack,+Joel Scalometer]. Phycisist Prof. Joel Primack and his wife, lawyer/philosophe Nancy Abrams, also use the ouroboros to visually describe quantum and cosmic realtionships.  
File:Ouroboros Forellenhof.jpg|A leggy Ouroboros decorating the flour of rural tavern gem [http://www.bergoase.at/ Forellenhof] in Haggen, Tyrol.
File:Ouroboros Forellenhof.jpg|A leggy Ouroboros decorating the flour of rural tavern gem [http://www.bergoase.at/ Forellenhof] in Haggen, Tyrol.
File:ElzeazarRA-1760 Uroboros.jpg|The Ouroboros and the Tree of Life - The ouroboro was believed to be the protector of the Tree of Life in some europe and norse mythology stories.
File:EleazarA-1760 Uroboros.jpg|The Ouroboros and the Tree of Life - The ouroboro was believed to be the protector of the Tree of Life in some europe and norse mythology stories.
File:TheodorosPelecanos 1.gif|A copy of a 1478 drawing by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoros_Pelecanos Theodoros Pelecanos], of an alchemical tract attributed to Synesius - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros Wikipedia]
File:TheodorosPelecanos 1.gif|A copy of a 1478 drawing by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoros_Pelecanos Theodoros Pelecanos], of an alchemical tract attributed to Synesius - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros Wikipedia]
File:CodexMarcianus Venedig-b.jpg|Codex Marcianus - offers one of the best Ouroboros representations.It is the most ancient and complete among greek manuscripts examinated by Marcelin Berthelot in his “ Collection des Anciens Alchimistes Grecs” Paris 1887, Collection of Ancient Greek Alchemists. In the treatise on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_the_Alchemist Chrysopeia, namely by Cleopatra], Berthelot found an entire page with symbols together with the Ouroboros we are examining. Find out more [https://www.labyrinthdesigners.org/alchemic-pictures/codex-marcianus-ouroboros/ here].
File:CodexMarcianus Venedig-b.jpg|Codex Marcianus - offers one of the best Ouroboros representations.It is the most ancient and complete among greek manuscripts examinated by Marcelin Berthelot in his “ Collection des Anciens Alchimistes Grecs” Paris 1887, Collection of Ancient Greek Alchemists. In the treatise on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_the_Alchemist Chrysopeia, namely by Cleopatra], Berthelot found an entire page with symbols together with the Ouroboros we are examining. Find out more [https://www.labyrinthdesigners.org/alchemic-pictures/codex-marcianus-ouroboros/ here].
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== 2015 ==
== 2015 ==
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File:Nicole Bezuidenhout tattoo.jpg |[[Bezuidenhout N| Nicole Bezuidenhout]], visiting scientist from Cape Town (South Africa) at the [[Oroboros MitoFit lab: visiting scientists |Oroboros MitoFit Lab]], is proudly showing her new Ouroboros tattoo. Nov 2015.
File:Nicole Bezuidenhout tattoo.jpg |[[Bezuidenhout N| Nicole Bezuidenhout]], visiting scientist from Cape Town (South Africa) at the [[Oroboros Laboratories: visiting scientists |Oroboros O2k-Laboratory]], is proudly showing her new Ouroboros tattoo. Nov 2015.


File:MitoOroboros by Odra Noel.JPG |The mitochondrial [[Oroboros symbol |Oroboros]] (by [[Odra Noel]], London, 2012) was a centre piece of [[MiPArt]] at [[Bioblast 2012]] illustrating the cycle of fission and fusion, with quality control as an essential mechanism to stay [[MitoFit]]. Sept 2015.
File:MitoOroboros by Odra Noel.JPG |The mitochondrial [[Oroboros symbol |Oroboros]] (by [[Odra Noel]], London, 2012) was a centre piece of [[MiPArt]] at [[Bioblast 2012]] illustrating the cycle of fission and fusion, with quality control as an essential mechanism to stay [[MitoFit]]. Sept 2015.

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