Talk:Ouroboros Puzzle/@comment-177.141.225.204-20170725221708/@comment-85.130.211.80-20180204232707

my theory

+ serpent = time

+ demon = the witness or, more accurately,  time's agent of destruction .. as the army's purpose was to destroy time and live in the red forest (a timeless place)

time was always moving forward, then it got "scared" when it saw its death and started moving backwards in cycles of madness / insanity, akin to eating its own tail (causality loops).

+ seers = primaries

+ weapon = paradox of olivia and herself ... perhaps she is the true "paradox in a box" (a weapon as mentioned by jennifer earlier is season 3) and not Athan .. as she was raised in a box and is "boxed" by her own cycle as she is now the witness and cannot do what she wants (recall that she tried to replace Athan, without knowing she'll become the witness whome she despised and forsaken) ... another way of putting it, is that she was a paradox to herself, as she worshipped herself and followed herself without knowing it and now, after knowing, she's doomed to do it all over again when she became the witness, cause she has to insure her own existence also ...

now, a way to end this cycle of madness is that olivia will paradox with her younger self, because her creation is what started all this and her future self (being the witness) is what maintains these cycle as the witness was directing them.

Also, this is why she (the demon) is the only one who can weild the weapon.

snake's den = no clue ... where does time live ? in itself .. maybe .. no idea ...