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Some cultures considered snakes immortal because they seemed to be reincarnating from their own selves when they shed their skin. Snakes were also often associated with immortality because they would bite their tails to form a circle and, when they coiled, create spirals. Both circles and spirals were seen as symbols of eternity. In Egyptian myth, the state of existence before creation was symbolised as Amduat, a coiled serpent from which Ra, the Sun, and all creation emerged, returning every night and being reborn every morning.
In “Time is a Flat Circle”, one witnesses a political-poetic …