The Orphic Egg, Cosmic Egg
The origin of the universe
“This symbol of a snake wrapped around an egg comes to us from the Ancient Orphic myth of the hatching of the cosmic egg in which the hermaphroditic Greek god Phanes (Φάνης) was born. According to Geek mythology Phanes is a golden winged primordial being who hatched from the cosmic egg of Chronos and in turn created not only the universe but the rest of the Greek pantheon.”