Just some geeky insight...
Not sure how many people know about this, and I don't know if this makes sense to anybody, LOL. Also: Sorry for the double-post. XD
I JUST finished reading Dan Brown's latest novel, "The Lost Symbol," which is part 3 in his Robert Langdon series, and there's a symbol there that I was SURE I'd seen before. It kept cropping up, because it's essential to finding out what -and where- the titular lost symbol is. Then, as I was looking through this community's current front page, it occurred to me where I'd seen the symbol.
This is the symbol, expressed artistically:
This is what it looks depicted simply:
Guess where I found it:
See it?
Setting aside the fact that I did NOT really need another excuse to stare at The Celtic Warrior's Celtic Bulge but I took the opportunity and stared again for as long as I could possibly want to, here's what I now know about the symbol.
The symbol of the snake devouring itself, thus forming a complete circle, is given the Greek name "OUROBOROS". In Dan Brown's novel, he states that it is "the symbol of wholeness and at-one-ment."
Wikipedia gives us two meanings that relate to each other in a way:
"The Ouroboros often represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end (compare with phoenix). It can also represent the idea of primordial unity related to something existing in or persisting from the beginning with such force or qualities it cannot be extinguished."
This is the positive connotation of the symbol. angrbooa shared with me a slightly opposite perspective according to Nordic mythology, in which the snake is called "Jörmungandr":
"Jörmungandr is the snake that surrounds the world. It's a child of Loki, a god, and the giant Angrboda - so are the wolf Fenrir and Hel (mistress of the hell). While Ragnarök, the end of the world, Thor, the god of thunder, tries to defeat Jörmungandr and does so, but dies of it's poison. So she's part of the end of the gods....to say it in short it's an enemy of the gods and the world."
I think the symbol all of the meanings are, in their own way, appropriate to his character. Does anyone else have any insights?
Yep. Total geek moment. Just a big fan of ancient mythology totally losing her mind as they clash with one of her favorite fandoms EVER, that's all. XD
Love Lots And God Bless!
~ MARCIANA ~
http://twitter.com/marciana86
I JUST finished reading Dan Brown's latest novel, "The Lost Symbol," which is part 3 in his Robert Langdon series, and there's a symbol there that I was SURE I'd seen before. It kept cropping up, because it's essential to finding out what -and where- the titular lost symbol is. Then, as I was looking through this community's current front page, it occurred to me where I'd seen the symbol.
This is the symbol, expressed artistically:
This is what it looks depicted simply:
Guess where I found it:
See it?
Setting aside the fact that I did NOT really need another excuse to stare at The Celtic Warrior's Celtic Bulge but I took the opportunity and stared again for as long as I could possibly want to, here's what I now know about the symbol.
The symbol of the snake devouring itself, thus forming a complete circle, is given the Greek name "OUROBOROS". In Dan Brown's novel, he states that it is "the symbol of wholeness and at-one-ment."
Wikipedia gives us two meanings that relate to each other in a way:
"The Ouroboros often represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end (compare with phoenix). It can also represent the idea of primordial unity related to something existing in or persisting from the beginning with such force or qualities it cannot be extinguished."
This is the positive connotation of the symbol. angrbooa shared with me a slightly opposite perspective according to Nordic mythology, in which the snake is called "Jörmungandr":
"Jörmungandr is the snake that surrounds the world. It's a child of Loki, a god, and the giant Angrboda - so are the wolf Fenrir and Hel (mistress of the hell). While Ragnarök, the end of the world, Thor, the god of thunder, tries to defeat Jörmungandr and does so, but dies of it's poison. So she's part of the end of the gods....to say it in short it's an enemy of the gods and the world."
I think the symbol all of the meanings are, in their own way, appropriate to his character. Does anyone else have any insights?
Yep. Total geek moment. Just a big fan of ancient mythology totally losing her mind as they clash with one of her favorite fandoms EVER, that's all. XD
Love Lots And God Bless!
~ MARCIANA ~
http://twitter.com/marciana86