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Archetypes and Myths

Are there any myths you believe in?

Persephone and her Abduction

  • Known as the daughter of Demeter and Goddess of vegetation
  • Was lusted after by many which lead to her abduction by Hades
  • Zeus forced Hades to return Persephone back to her mother
  • Hades tricks her into eating the fruit of the Underworld which forces her to return to the there a third of the year

Jesus: Death and Resurrection

  • Put under arrest after he is betrayed by Judas
  • Was ordered to be crucified by the Roman Soliders
  • Dressed him in a purple robe and crown of thorns and has his hand and feet nailed to a cross
  • He was mocked, drugged, and beaten until death the next day when he died
  • He was buried that evening in a tomb that was found empty on Sunday by Mary Magadalene

Weighing of the Heart

Izanagi and Izanami

Adonis

  • Ceremony
  • Ancient Egyptians believed, when they died they would be judged on their behavior during their life time.
  • Then they would be given an afterlife if their life time before was approved
  • Feather represented this - Had to balance out equally to be passed through to an afterlife
  • Believed the heart was the center of thought, memory and emotion
  • Created by the gods of Takamagahara (the heavens) as the 1st male and female to construct Ashihara-no-nakatsukuni
  • Izanami was burned to death during the birth of the fire god, Kagutsuchi
  • Was reborn in Yomi-no-kuni (the Land of the Dead)
  • The god of beauty and desire
  • Belonged to women; the dying of Adonis was fully developed in a circle of young girls
  • Had many roles
  • An annually-renewed, ever-youthful vegetation god
  • A life-death-rebirth deity whose nature is tied to the calendar
  • Was killed by a wild boar - due to jealousy of his ability to hunt

Make up your own myth that has to do with death and rebirth.....

Death and rebirth - The most common of all situational archetypes, this archetype grows out of the parallel between the cycle of nature & the cycle of life.

The Walking Dead

Do you believe that there is an afterlife?

  • Rick was in a coma
  • "New" world
  • Dead people
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