![]() With the name Chemeia taken to Kim-Iya, the last word would take Ouroboros to Yin-Yang. Ouroboros is normally depicted with its anterior half as black but it should be the reverse as shown here. Ouroboros here is depicted white and black, as soul and body, the two as "one which is all." It is cosmic soul, the source of all creation. Its head and anterior portion is red, being the colour of blood as soul its tail and posterior half is dark, representing body. ![]() It is a snake and as such as symbol of soul. Since Chinese alchemy did reach Alexandria probably the symbol Yin-Yang, as dual-natured, responsible for creation, was transformed into a symbol called Ouroboros. Yin-Yang was treated separately in Chinese cosmology which consisted of five cosmic elements. The two opposites were yin-yang and their unity was called Chhi. The meaning of YIN-YANG SYMBOL is a graphic symbol of Chinese origin that has the form of a circle divided evenly into two symmetrical teardrop shapes. This Taoist symbol portrays order (white) and chaos (black) as two intertwined. The two opposites were further conceived as matter and energy which became dual-natured but as one. The yin-yang symbol symbolizes the intertwined nature of order and chaos. Correspondingly, the Chinese believed Light and Darkness, as the ideal opposites, when united, yielded creative energy. Now reproduction results in the union of two opposites as male and female. For creation of the universe they projected reproduction to conceive creation. Each opposite was assumed to be powerful and so was their final unity. These, two as one, gave the idea of opposites but forming a unity. The universe was early divided into Earth below and Heaven above. Rate this symbol: (3.67 / 3 votes) In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin-yang (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: ynyng), which is often called 'yin and yang', is used to describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world and, how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. ![]()
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