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    Posted 7 years ago

    Kaijones80
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    I came across this braclet have no idea what to do with it i just want to kindly ask if anyone knows the history or even seen one of these cause ive been searching and never found another one like it.

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    1. Celiene Celiene, 7 years ago
      Looks like an Ouroboros. Very nice. White jade is a premium.
    2. Celiene Celiene, 7 years ago
      You have a Double Ouroboros. From the web:

      "Chinese Ouroboros from Chou dynasty, 1200 BC.

      The universe was early divided into Earth below and Heaven above. These, two as one, gave the idea of opposites but forming a unity. Each opposite was assumed to be powerful and so was their final unity. For creation of the universe they projected reproduction to conceive creation. Now reproduction results in the union of two opposites as male and female.

      Correspondingly, the Chinese believed Light and Darkness, as the ideal opposites, when united, yielded creative energy. The two opposites were further conceived as matter and energy which became dual-natured but as one. The two opposites were yin-yang and their unity was called Chhi. Yin-Yang was treated separately in Chinese cosmology which consisted of five cosmic elements.

      Since Chinese alchemy did reach Alexandria probably the symbol Yin-Yang, as dual-natured, responsible for creation, was transformed into a symbol called Ouroboros. It is a snake and as such as symbol of soul. Its head and anterior portion is red, being the color of blood as soul; its tail and posterior half is dark, representing body.

      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. Ouroboros is normally depicted with its anterior half as black but it should be the reverse as shown here. With the name Chemeia taken to Kim-Iya, the last word would take Ouroboros to Yin-Yang."

      http://www.crystalinks.com/ouroboros.html
    3. Celiene Celiene, 7 years ago
      More here. Scroll down to #6 & #8.

      https://www.thoughtco.com/ouroboros-4123019
    4. Kaijones80, 7 years ago
      Thanks for all your info just made it that much better for me to appreciate the history of this piece

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