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 [...]
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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