“If they wish to represent the universe, they draw a snake scattered with bright scales, swallowing its own tail: the flakes indicate the stars of the universe… each year it divests itself of it’s skin, the old time… and the consumption of its own body ndicates that all things in the world which may be produced by divine providence in the world, also succomb to decay.”
—Horapollo - egyptian - 5th cent. AD
