Ouroboros
The form or shape of a snake or dragon biting its own tall is called the Ouroboros symbol. Since half is bright and the other half dark&sbquo it serves as a symbol of earth encompassed by ocean. This allows it to express the "unity of the universe" and "totality" as a symbol that pervades everything and links everything together as one. Accordingly&sbquo the meaning has been applied to various other areas. It has taken on a rhetorical image that even express self fertilization &sbquo androgyny&sbquo fertility&sbquo the continuity of life forms&sbquo eternity&sbquo and the self-sufficiency of the nature world. Originally&sbquo in alchemy it expressed rather vague universe that contrasted with primal chaos. The alchemists devoted themselves to the demiurge (a god of creation) who create the universe out of chaos. The round form of Ouroboros was used as a symbol to express the secrets and hidden arts of alchemy&sbquo such as the principle of the earth and such enclosed entities. It is also led to forms that symbolize eternity. In selecting this word as design vocabulary&sbquo I don't mean that it should be employed figuratively as a rhetorical shape&sbquo or treated semitonically as aesthetics or artistic poetry&sbquo but rather to verify its symbolic potential as a figurative shape in relation to chaos&sbquo order&sbquo and the nature of the pre-scientific universe of alchemy. When expressing design formation theory and cognizant of everything from the primitive meaning of what implied by the expression Ouroborosesque to the expansion of that meaning and theory of interpretation and the metaphorical meaning of design concept. In order to develop a rhetoric for design forms based on science and technology&sbquo or to create an interpretation of semiotic formal intention&sbquo the expression Ouroborosesque can be cited as a morphological symbol that symbolizes orderliness which prevails in our universe and chaos. It is a symbol that demands the symbolic perfection of the nature of symbolism regarding the relation between design and art&sbquo and design's outlook on the universe.