ABSTRACT
Human beings in early civilisations moved beyond their state of immersion in nature to consideration of origins, envisioning gods that created the world. The consciousness of modern man has expanded to include evolution, a vast universe evolved over billions of years, knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology immensely more advanced than that of the ancient world. The uroborus, the serpent with its tail in its mouth, symbolises the self-contained nature of the totality. This mythological, original state is a union of opposites, light and dark, positive and negative, the state before creation. A primal intuition that there is an essence that encompasses all things, a foundation of everything, a force that is omnipresent through the material and non-material world that underlies both the human self and nature. Since human beings are from the earth, which in turn evolved from the universe, an identity should exist between mankind and the cosmos.
