This archetype was described as Carl Jung as a person with great judgment and wisdom. The wise old man is sometimes referred to as the Sage. This archetype is characterized by being old, bearded, father-figure type who uses his great personal knowledge of the world and offer guidance through stories and may impress upon his [...]
Oedipus was a mythical Greek king who was prophesized by the Oracle at Delphi that he would kill his father, marry his mother and put his country chaos. The Oedipus Complex is also the term used by Sigmund Freud to describe a neuroses where a male child experiences unconscious desire to have the exclusive love of his mother, even feeling jelousy towards his father.
Oedipus was the son of King Larius and Queen Jocasta, His parents consulted the Oracle at Delphi before he was born. After which, his parents gave him to a herdsman and instructed him to kill the baby. The herdsman felt pity for the infant and gave him to another herdsman. The second herdsman brought Oedipus to the king of Cornith, Polybus and his wife Merope. The king and queen adopted Oedipus and raised him as their own son. Many years later Oedipus was told by a drunk that he was adopted. Polybus and Merope denied this and Oedipus instead went to an Oracle who told him that he was destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus, thinking that the Oracle meant Polybus and Merope, decided to leave Corinth for Thebes.
Pandora was the first woman. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her from earth as part of the punishment for mankind when Prometheus stole the secret of fire. All the other gods help create her by giving her different gifts. Venus gave her beauty, Apollo gave her music and Mercury gave her persuasion. Her name means “giver of all”.
According to the myth, Pandora was given a box, which is actually a jar, and was instructed by the Gods to never open it. However, the gods also created Pandora to be curious and so she opened the jar and out came disease, sorrow and death to mankind. When Pandora finally shut the box, only Elpis or Hope was left inside.
Narcissus was a young boy in Greek mythology who gazed upon his reflection in a pool of water and fell inlove with his own self. This is where we get the terms narcissistic and narcissism or somebody who loves only himself.
According to Ovid, Narcissus was a vain youth who had many admirers. When he turned 15 all the youths and young ladies were inlove with him, but he spurned them all. Echo a nymph, followed Narcissus out while he was hunting for stags. Narcissus knew that there was somebody following him but when he called out “who’s there”, Echo could only answer “who’s there” in return being too shy to talk to him. This went on for a while until Echo finally ran to his arms. Alas, Narcissus rejected Echo and she left him brokenhearted. Echo spent the rest of her life pining for Narcissus. Nemesis then punished Narcissus so when he drank from a deep pool Narcissus saw his reflection for the first time and fell in love with his own self. Realizing that he could never act on this love, narcissus beat his body and died. A flower grew on the spot where he died and was named after him.
Eros in Greek mythology is Venus’ son and Psyche’s husband. Eros and Psyche’s story is an age old tale of love overcoming differences.
It can be remembered that Venus was a vain God. Psyche had a lot of admirers and so her jealousy of Psyche led her to order her own son to shoot an arrow into Psyche so that she would fall in love with “the ugliest, vilest creature”. However, even Eros was no match for Psyche’s beauty, because when he leaned forward to look at her, one of his arrows pricked him on his chest and instantly fell in love.
Chaos in Greek Mythology meant the original state of the universe before the Gods were born. In other words: nothing. It is the opposite of cosmos, in ancient Greece meaning order. The Greek poet Ovid mentioned in Metamorphoses, a collection of 15 books the creation of the universe that Chaos is “rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named” which is how we have the modern meaning for chaos: disorder.
Chaos in mythology is often referred to as where everything came from. In Hesiod’s Origin of the Gods, Chaos was the nothingness out of which the first objects emerged. From Chaos, we have Gaia or Earth, Tartarus the Underworld, Nyx darkness of the night, Erberus, darkness of the underworld, and Eros sexual love. In other words Chaos is the womb from which everything emerged from.
Psyche in ancient Greek mythology was Cupid’s (Eros) wife. She was the youngest daughter of the King of Sicily and was the most beautiful woman on the island. Men flocked to her side asking for her hand in marriage. Venus got jealous of her beauty and commanded her son Cupid to make Eros fall in love with the ugliest creature he could find. But even Cupid succumbed to Psyche’s beauty and fell in love with her and married her.
Psyche’s story is the personification of the passion of love. The Greeks believed that the soul or psyche was responsible for behavior. In psychology, the psyche is one’s conception of the self. It encompasses the modern idea of the soul, self and the mind and how these affect the way we think and behave.
In Greek and Roman mythology, the god of dreams. He was one of the sons of Hypnos (Somnus), god of sleep. Morpheus sent human shapes of all kinds to the dreamer, while his brothers Phobetor and Phantasus sent the forms of animals and inanimate objects.
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