CIRCLES OF PROFUSION
OUROBOROS and CAPILLARI Colures
It is a common, fashionable gesture to wear decorations on the wrists. Yet, these typically circular objects we mostly give for granted, save for their aesthetic appearance, can sometimes be loaded with thick meaning, no matter how clear they are. After all, without 'Sense,' both 'form' and 'function' are out of place. Fz.S 'Colures' (genus CAPILLARI) happen to have a colorful pedigree from the realm of mythical symbology. Consider this:
Ancient cultures, from the Greek, to the Chinese, to the Mayan, all observed powerful meaning in the circular gesture of a snake chasing it's tail.
The Ouroboros-as-archetype originated in Egypt as a symbol of the sun, it represented the travels of its disk. It also signified 'eternity' and the soul of the world. The word is Greek for "tail swallower." It is a snake swallowing its tail, usually circular. In other cultures it meant continuous renewal, ‘life force,' 'instinct,’ ‘kundalini,' even assimilation of the opposite.
Capillari Colures where not originally conceived as serpentine symbols, however, we embrace the potential meaning they evoke as an allegory of such charged mythology. The head and tail of Colures are 'magnets', which in deed attract as opposites. The piercing stainless steel studs do seem like the feathers of the Mayan feathered serpent God, Kukulkán, and the internal moving steel parts are definitely evocative of Kundalini's chakras, life, and surging energy.
Ancient cultures, from the Greek, to the Chinese, to the Mayan, all observed powerful meaning in the circular gesture of a snake chasing it's tail.
The Ouroboros-as-archetype originated in Egypt as a symbol of the sun, it represented the travels of its disk. It also signified 'eternity' and the soul of the world. The word is Greek for "tail swallower." It is a snake swallowing its tail, usually circular. In other cultures it meant continuous renewal, ‘life force,' 'instinct,’ ‘kundalini,' even assimilation of the opposite.
Capillari Colures where not originally conceived as serpentine symbols, however, we embrace the potential meaning they evoke as an allegory of such charged mythology. The head and tail of Colures are 'magnets', which in deed attract as opposites. The piercing stainless steel studs do seem like the feathers of the Mayan feathered serpent God, Kukulkán, and the internal moving steel parts are definitely evocative of Kundalini's chakras, life, and surging energy.
