{"id":65622,"date":"2019-07-24T03:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T03:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65622"},"modified":"2019-07-24T03:08:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T03:08:55","slug":"when-cats-and-elephants-act-the-role-of-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65622","title":{"rendered":"When cats and elephants act the role of snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; ouroboroi &#8212; i&#8217;ll take the elephant first, since the cats are frankly vulgar ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>More vicious circles &#8212; serpents biting their tails. As I&#8217;ve suggested elsewhere, the serpent biting its tail or <strong>ouroboros<\/strong>, is one of humankind&#8217;s oldest and most profound patterns.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that <strong>cats<\/strong>, and <strong>elephants <\/strong>too, can enact it.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The circle here is a triple one &#8212; same transformer which killed child elephant is avenged by child&#8217;s mother:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mother elephant uproots transformer that electrocuted her baby in Andhra &#8211; a sad but also a fascinating read. Thankfully the villagers understood the mom\u2019s emotions &#8211; for most part the human ego assumes these to be \u2018human\u2019 emotions <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zn2FdxdmFb\">https:\/\/t.co\/zn2FdxdmFb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anurag Vohra (@anuragv1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anuragv1\/status\/1153793560551907329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t do better for a follow-up than to embed for you this tweet by my friend Bill Banzon;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Medieval Paintings of Cats Licking Their Butts  &gt; alternative Uroboros &gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hipbonegamer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hipbonegamer<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QLiySbThQZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/QLiySbThQZ<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sadanduseless?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SadAndUseless<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Benzon (@bbenzon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbenzon\/status\/1153691899649286145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click through to the full thread he links to, if you want to see a dozen or so more examples of cat-lick.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, this was clearly a <em><strong>medieval meme<\/strong><\/em>..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; ouroboroi &#8212; i&#8217;ll take the elephant first, since the cats are frankly vulgar ] . More vicious circles &#8212; serpents biting their tails. As I&#8217;ve suggested elsewhere, the serpent biting its tail or ouroboros, is one of humankind&#8217;s oldest and most profound patterns. It appears that cats, and elephants too, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,932,627,394,1479,1,1943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-children","category-doublequotes","category-meme","category-ouroboros","category-uncategorized","category-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65622"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65630,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65622\/revisions\/65630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}