Icon request: ouroborus

TheOldMan2000 commented 6 years ago

I would like to make a request for a new FA icon known internationally as the Ouroborus, which is a mythical, ancient symbol, known internationally, that adopts many forms but always entails a similar theme, namely it is a symbol depicting a serpent (sometimes a dragon) eating its own tail.

Either stand-alone or as part of a mythical symbol category, I would preferably like the icon to be a left-facing (anticlockwise) circular snake, designed so that is appears as of it is eating its own tail (possibly with an alternative right facing (clockwise) version).

What can it be used for?

About the Ouroborus: The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent eating its own tail. The name originates from within Greek language; (oura) meaning "tail" and (boros) meaning "eating", thus "he who eats the tail".

Originating in ancient Egyptian iconography (the first known representation of Ouroboros is on the sarcophagus of ToutAnkhAmun), the ouroboros entered western tradition via Greek magical tradition and was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in alchemy.

The ouroboros represents and therefore can be used to symbolise as an FA icon the perpetual cyclic renewal of life and infinity, the concept of eternity and the eternal return, and represents the cycle of life, death and rebirth, or immortality.

FA represents a convenient and illustrative way to display either a static or animated (rotating anticlockwise) Ouroborus snake icon.

Example image (optional)

This image shows the preferred design, either a smooth flat surface design or scaled design would be fine.

Example of a stylised silver ouroborus - this style of ouroborus appeared in the 1996 TV series Millennium in which the symbol was adopted and styled as a corporate brand logo of a fictitious organisation.

Example of a stylised golden coloured ouroborus - this style of ouroborus appeared in the 1996 TV series Millennium in which the symbol was adopted and styled as a corporate brand logo of a fictitious organisation.

References and further examples: Ouroborus, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia ouroboros, at Crystalinks

Icon request checklist

[x ] This is a single icon or matched pair (Ex: lock / unlock)
[x ] The title starts with "Icon request: " and is followed by the requested icon name (Ex: Icon request: magical-unicorn)
[x ] I have searched for existing issues and to the best of my knowledge this is not a duplicate
[x ] I have included at least one example image if it could be helpful (optional)
[x ] The request is for a concrete object (it's harder to make an icon to represent happiness, it's easier to make a smiley face. ☺)

TheOldMan2000 commented 6 years ago

Just found some more examples at: https://thenounproject.com/term/ouroboros/693848/ https://thenounproject.com/term/uroboros/97478/ https://thenounproject.com/term/ouroboros/1155902/ https://thenounproject.com/term/uroboros/379906/ https://thenounproject.com/term/uroboros/412409/

mathandy commented 3 years ago

I searched for this hoping to use at as the icon for a "meta" forum to ask questions about the forum I'm working on.

sensibleworld commented 4 months ago

This is a quick update to let folks know that we’re refining our icon request workflow behind the scenes, and as part of that we’re going through all open requests and filing them into several new buckets to be addressed.

In this case we’ve added this issue to our new list to be created! We can’t promise any firm timelines right now, but this will help us keep track of it.

We’ll update this issue when the icon is released into the wild 🙂

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