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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.

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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie,

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Speaker 1: those are some interesting ear rings you have on there. Oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you, my aura borus ear rings. They are the

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Speaker 1: aar borus snake and it's actually curling and biting its

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Speaker 1: tail in its mouth. Well that's the illusion actually when

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Speaker 1: it's in my ear Yes, the Aora borus. You know,

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Speaker 1: we recently did that episode on symbols, and we talked

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Speaker 1: a little bit about powerful symbols, ancient symbols, symbols that

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Speaker 1: just resonate with meaning and continue to do so just

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Speaker 1: across thousands and thousands of years of human history. And

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Speaker 1: the aura borus is a fantastic example of this. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's depicted as a more of a snake. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's more of a dragon or a lizard looking creature,

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Speaker 1: and it is always biting its own tail and or

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Speaker 1: consuming its own tail, So the tail is going in

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Speaker 1: the mouth, and it instantly even if you're not familiar

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Speaker 1: with any of the the the historic interpretations of the

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Speaker 1: o reborus, it instantly draws certain ideas to the forefront

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Speaker 1: the idea of on a very simple level, like the

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Speaker 1: consumption of oneself auto cannibalism, but also the idea that

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Speaker 1: what is what's going to happen? What is happening with

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Speaker 1: the serpent eating its own tail? How long can it

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Speaker 1: can maintain this, this self devouring movement before it can't

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Speaker 1: eat itself anymore? Does it get to the point where

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Speaker 1: it just blinks out into nothing or is this a

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Speaker 1: continuing cycle? Is it not only eating itself but emerging

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Speaker 1: from itself? Okay, so it's the whole idea of like, uh,

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Speaker 1: you're either descending into nothingness or you're coming from nothingness. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to point out that rat snakes, along

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Speaker 1: with some other species of snakes, have been known to

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Speaker 1: swallow their tails um in an act of as you say,

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Speaker 1: auto cannibalism, although this has seen primarily in captivitying when

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Speaker 1: they're cages that are small. Yeah. Um, so it is

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Speaker 1: something that exists in nature, but largely the rbrus has,

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Speaker 1: as you say, come to symbolize this idea of rebirth,

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Speaker 1: uh infinity in this continuity, this this wheel of cycles

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Speaker 1: that you've actually talked about before in terms of some Sara. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's essentially it's a it's a cosmic serpent,

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Speaker 1: and there are a lot of cosmic serpents and world

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Speaker 1: serpents in mythology, I mean, ranging from the Leviathan that's

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Speaker 1: mentioned in the Old Testament, Uh, comes up in the

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Speaker 1: Book of job or the organ Mander, the giant be

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Speaker 1: steel serpent that plays a role in Ragnar Rock in

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Speaker 1: the End of the World, and the or wards resonates

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Speaker 1: with these ideas of self consumption. Uh, it's continuing to emerge,

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Speaker 1: and you might even draw that if this process is disturbed,

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Speaker 1: it might well mean the end of time. So it's

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Speaker 1: a circle of eternity. It takes our linear existence and

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Speaker 1: turns it on its head, turns it into the cyclical

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Speaker 1: form that at once makes more sense and that it

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Speaker 1: ties back to our cyclical understanding of life. But also

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Speaker 1: it's kind of mind blowing in and on itself because

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Speaker 1: you again you try to figure out how how would

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Speaker 1: this work in real life. It's kind of like an

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Speaker 1: extra painting, like the oldest possible extra painting. As I said,

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Speaker 1: the bors dates back to ancient times. Uh, the pretty

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Speaker 1: much the earliest one that we've ever encountered comes comes

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Speaker 1: from Egypt, from the what we refer to as the

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Speaker 1: Enigmatic Book of the nether World. And that's just a

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Speaker 1: name we came up for it. It's in great and

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Speaker 1: not you and I, but we as modern humans are

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Speaker 1: ultimately modern humans. It was fine and found engraved in

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Speaker 1: a shrine of Tuton common Uh and in it we

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Speaker 1: see a figure named He who rides the hours, and

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Speaker 1: both the head and the feet of this figure surrounded

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Speaker 1: by an ora bors serpent uh. That is designated is

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Speaker 1: me Hin the Enveloper, and that comes from about the

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Speaker 1: fourteenth century v C. But elsewhere in China and the

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Speaker 1: Near Ease, we see examples of it in the neolithic

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Speaker 1: yang Shao culture that thrived in the Yellow River between

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Speaker 1: five thousand and three thousand BC, and so it just

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Speaker 1: continues to carry on from there. There's some scholars that

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Speaker 1: believe that there's a link between the the yin yang

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Speaker 1: symbol of the opposing forces swirling together, classic Asian symbol,

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Speaker 1: that there's a connection between that and the aura borus

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Speaker 1: you see later on. The Gnostics looked at it as

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Speaker 1: the soul of the world. The alchemists prized it Uh.

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Speaker 1: It ends up interpreted in other mythologies as well, in

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Speaker 1: of the ancient Mapa mondays that we were talking about

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Speaker 1: in our Sea Monsters episode. You see the Great Tale

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Speaker 1: of our in Serpent as a beast that encircles the

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Speaker 1: known world or the known oceans. It becomes something that

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Speaker 1: cosmic understanding as well. Yeah, that's interesting because in Norse

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Speaker 1: mythology it comes to represent this idea of the surcumference

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Speaker 1: and it has the writing all is one inscribed in

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Speaker 1: the middle, which kind of speaks a bit too zen

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Speaker 1: buddhism um. So yeah, you have all these different ancient

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Speaker 1: and cool and and actually if you look at even

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Speaker 1: someone like the German chemist August Cakel who dreamed of

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Speaker 1: a snake that seized a talentso mouth of that was

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Speaker 1: inspiration for him figuring out that benzine had a ring

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Speaker 1: like molecular structure, So it's definitely ingrained in our conscious

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Speaker 1: and I think it's interesting that it may even relate

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Speaker 1: Young had this to say about it. He did. He

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Speaker 1: was talking about the alchemist's fundness for the ora borus,

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Speaker 1: and he says, the alchemist, who in their own way

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Speaker 1: knew more about the nature of the individualization process than

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Speaker 1: we moderns do, express this paradox to the symbol of

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Speaker 1: the ora borus, the snake that eats its own tail.

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Speaker 1: The ora borus has been said to have a meaning

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Speaker 1: of infinity or wholeness. In the age old image of

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Speaker 1: the ara Borus lies the thought of devouring oneself and

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Speaker 1: turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear

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Speaker 1: to the more astute alchemist that the prima material of

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Speaker 1: the art was man himself. The ora Borus is a

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Speaker 1: dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite

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Speaker 1: time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of

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Speaker 1: the ara Borus that he slays himself and brings himself

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Speaker 1: to life. Fertilizes himself and gives birth to himself. He

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Speaker 1: symbolizes the one who proceeds from the clash of opposites,

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Speaker 1: and he therefore constitutes the secret of the prima material,

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Speaker 1: which unquestionably stems from man's consciousness. Now, of course, I

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Speaker 1: can't help to wonder if the Matrix ever really worked

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Speaker 1: the Ora Borus into its plotlines. It should have if

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Speaker 1: it hadn't, because it's got the whole the one thing though,

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Speaker 1: the third one, but it seems like that's where it

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Speaker 1: as we said, this did get kind of buried into

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Speaker 1: which is interesting. You're talking about hoop snakes, I believe, Um, yes, now,

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Speaker 1: general as the fearsome critters. And I really believe this

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Speaker 1: part of it is that, on one hand, these monsters

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Speaker 1: were silly, they were exaggerated, they were fun. And so

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Speaker 1: the example of the hoop snake is here you have

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Speaker 1: a highly colored snake and extremely poisonous and aggressive of course,

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Speaker 1: like any monster should be. And it moves by taking

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Speaker 1: rolling like a hoop at high speeds. So again it's

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Speaker 1: The lumberjack, so specifically lumberjacks. When you're wearing those check shirts,

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Speaker 1: all that noise of that axe. And so the hoop

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Speaker 1: snakes running at you. What are you gonna do? What's

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Speaker 1: your defense? This thing just barreling towards you. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's just poisonous, is all get out my ax, you

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Speaker 1: no accident, gonna work one move, one move? What do

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Speaker 1: you do? Uh well, oh I jumped through it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you dive through the center of the hoop, and then

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Speaker 1: a This confuses the hoop snake, and then the the

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Speaker 1: So that's how the lumberjacks supposedly survived the motions of

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Speaker 1: the hoop snake. Yeah, I love it because I love

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Speaker 1: this idea that you have a snake taking its tail

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Speaker 1: someone with its tail. So it's great imagery. But while

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Speaker 1: the hoop or also called the mud snake, cannot stay

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Speaker 1: uses this as a no nonsense defense measure. Um. It

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Speaker 1: What's the best way to do it? Roll up, roll up? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and just then you're going down the hill. Yeah, because

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Speaker 1: then all of your like internal origans are all protected too,

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Speaker 1: well maybe then and then we curled. I wonder if

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