the first known appearance of the ouroboros motif is in kv62, the tomb of tutankhamun, in the 14th century bc. the text is about the god ra and his union with osiris in the underworld. in an illustration, two serpents, with their tails in their mouths, coil around the head and feet of an enormous god (this the unified ra-osiris). the whole figure represents the beginning and the end of time.