Frankly, I think he (or she!) needs a name. Maybe we'll have an ouroboros-naming contest. If you haven't met the resident ouroboros, one of the many places you can say hi is here.
Dating back to almost 5000BC, the ouroboros is one of the oldest mythological symbols in the world. Carl Jung (The Archetype Guy Himself) believed the ouroboros had particular significance to the human psyche. It has often symbolized the balance of opposites and perfect, self-sustaining cycles in the same way the phoenix or the yin-yang symbols in Taoism have. Many religions and folk myths—from Christian to Hindu—reference the ouroboros.
After dreaming of a snake eating its tail, chemist August Kekulé famously realized that a circle was the best way to account for the unique structure of alternating double carbon bonds found in benzene.
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? It seemed like a good idea at the time. I may try to replace them with italics or some other indicator eventually, but right now, it's blue and green arrows. Generally, the blue arrows go to official psychiatric information, and the green go other places.
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