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"The Humans want them gone because they are demons, they want to reclaim what is there's and heal what the humans have damaged, prophesy tells of a 'human dragon' which will bring an end to it..."
My friend *shadowsofthought requested that I create original icons and logos for his gallery folders on DeviantArt. I ended up liking the some of the icons so much that I thought I'd post a few of them as deviations.
Here's the title logo for his epic Dragon Legacy Cycle book series, which focuses on the life-death-rebirth tales of Nature and Earth through the eyes of Dragons and Humans. I really wanted to make it appear in the style of a black-and-white medieval wood-cut engraving. It was my own idea to use the Ouroboros ("tail-devourer"), an ancient religious and mythological symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle to sustain its life, symbolizing the cyclic Nature of the Universe of creation out of destruction, which represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, the eternal return of life-death-rebirth. This self-eating, circular being has been depicted in the following ways:
Medium - Photoshop.
Logo © Diane N. Tran.
Dragon Legacy Cycle © Thomas "Shadow" Walker.
My friend *shadowsofthought requested that I create original icons and logos for his gallery folders on DeviantArt. I ended up liking the some of the icons so much that I thought I'd post a few of them as deviations.
Here's the title logo for his epic Dragon Legacy Cycle book series, which focuses on the life-death-rebirth tales of Nature and Earth through the eyes of Dragons and Humans. I really wanted to make it appear in the style of a black-and-white medieval wood-cut engraving. It was my own idea to use the Ouroboros ("tail-devourer"), an ancient religious and mythological symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle to sustain its life, symbolizing the cyclic Nature of the Universe of creation out of destruction, which represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, the eternal return of life-death-rebirth. This self-eating, circular being has been depicted in the following ways:
• Astrological symbolI thought this was a fun away to bring an ancient, worldly, psychological, individualistic, multi-cultural symbol into the epic tales. I wanted to use the Ouroboros from early alchemical text because it had the two beings — the dragon and the serpent, which can represent heaven-hell, nature-earth, nature-nurture, natural-supernatural, life-death, creation-destruction, rich-poor, good-evil, day-night, black-white, negative-positive, parent-child, man-woman, angel-demon, human-dragon, yin-yang, etc, in a separate-but-equal, never-ending circle. Check out the Dragon Legacy Cycle books at HERE.
• Alchemical purifying sigil
• Gnostic duality of existence
• Masonic symbol
• Rod of Asclepius and Caduceus, the wand of Hermes, a snake-entwined staff representing medicine in the West and human DNA
• Judo-Christian sea serpent, the Leviathan
• Roman mythology of Sisyphus and his boulder
• Ancient Egypt deity, Apep
• Norse sea serpent, Jörmungandr
• Hindu folk-mythological tortoise, Kurma encircled by a snake
• West African demi-god Aidophedo
• Yoruban rainbow serpent, Oshunmare
• Mesoamerican "feathered-serpent" deity, Quetzalcoatl
• Hindu (Vedic) King of Nagaas, Shesha
• Vedic Asura serpent/dragon, Vrtra
• Iranian character, Zahhāk
• Australian Aboriginal motif, the Rainbow Serpent
• Western equivalent of the Taoist yin-yang
• Kundalini Yoga's symbol of energy
• Chinese dragon chasing the Precious Pearl
• Chinese dragon and phoenix chasing each other
• Chinese dragon in the heaven and White Tiger on earth
• Japanese legendary snake, Tsuchinoko
• Tibetan Buddhist's endless knot
• Zen Ensō
• Mandala Circle
• Borromean rings
• Möbius strip
• Hoop snake from Pecos Bill stories
• AURYN talisman from The Neverending Story
Medium - Photoshop.
Logo © Diane N. Tran.
Dragon Legacy Cycle © Thomas "Shadow" Walker.
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I'm getting an Ouroboros tattoo sometime soon. It means a lot to me.