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Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia II - Mythology - Myths by region

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Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Crispus

Flavius Julius Crispus, also known as Flavius Claudius Crispus and Flavius Valerius Crispus was a Caesar of the Roman Empire. He was the first-born son of Constantine I the Great by Minervina. Crispus - Life account. Crispus - Birth. Crispus' year and place of birth are uncertain. He is considered likely to have been born between 299 and 305 A.D. somewhere in the Eastern Roman Empire. His mother Minervina was either a concubine or a first wife to Constantine. Nothi ...

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Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Thraetaona

Thraetaona (or Traetaona) is a heroic character in Zoroastrianism and Persian mythology who overthrew Azhi Dahaka, chaining him to the mouth of a volcano. Thraetaona has many traits that include him in the archetype generally associated with Christ, Hercules in Greek mythology, Trita, and Ivan Trety. Other related archivesAzhi Dahaka, Christ, Greek mythology, Hercules, Persian mythology, Zoroastrianism

Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Mana

Mana is a traditional term and a concept among the speakers of Oceanic languages, including Melanesians, Polynesians and Māori. It is an impersonal force or quality said to reside in people, animals and inanimate objects which provide an observer with a sense of wonder or respect. In anthropological discourse, mana as a generalized concept has attained a significant amount of interest; often understood as the precursor to genuine religion. It has commonly been interpreted as "the stuff of which magic is formed," although this vie ...

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Mana - Mana in Oceanic culture

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Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Isis

Isis is a female goddess in the Egyptian belief. She was most prominent mythologically as the wife of Horus, or, in later periods, as the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and was worshipped as the archetypal wife and mother. Much later, her greatly changed cult became very prominent internationally, and she was worshipped throughout the ancient world as Isis-Aphrodite. Her name literally means (female) of throne, and the main hierogliph in her name, and the em ...

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Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Wise Old Man

The Wise Old Man is an archetype as described by Carl Gustav Jung. It is also a classic literary figure, and may be seen as a stock character. In works of fiction, this kind of character is typically represented by a kind and wise, older father-type figure who uses personal knowledge of people and the world, to help tell stories and offer guidance, that in a mystical way illuminate to his audience ...

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Wise Old Man - Examples of the Wise Old Man in popular culture

Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Psychopomp

Many sets of religious beliefs have a particular spirit, deity, demon or angel whose responsibility is to escort newly-deceased souls to the afterlife, such as Heaven or Hell. These creatures are called psychopomps, from the Greek word ψυχοπομπóς (psychopompos), literally meaning the 'guide of souls'. They were often associated with horses, whippoorwills, ravens, dogs, crows, sparrows, harts (that is, male deer), and dolphins. Aztec mythology Xolotl Cahuilla myt ...

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Psychopomp - External links

Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Trickster

In the study of mythology, folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, human hero or anthropomorphic animal who breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (for example, Loki) but usually with ultimately positive effects. Often, the rule-breaking takes the form of tricks (eg. Eris) or thievery. Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both; they are often very funny even when considere ...

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Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Earth Mother

The Earth Mother is a motif that appears in many mythologies. The Earth Mother is a fertile goddess embodying the fertile earth itself and typically the mother of other deities, and so are also seen as patronesses of motherhood. This is generally thought of as being because the earth was seen as being the mother from which all life sprang. In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and related books, the character Galadriel has many attributes of the Earth Mother. Examples of Earth Mothers include: Brigid Demeter Freya Frigg Gaia Ishtar Isis

Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Archetype

Archetype is defined as an original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated. The term is often used in literature, architecture, and to refer to something that goes back to the fundamental origins of style, method, gold standard, or physical construct. Shakespeare, for example, is epitomized for popularizing many archetypal characters, not because he was the first that we know of to write them, but because he defined those roles amongst the backdrop of a comp ...

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Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Ziz

The ziz is a giant bird in mythology, said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wingspan; perhaps somewhat similar to a roc. According to tradition, the meat of this bird will be served as a meal, along with the behemoth and the leviathan, in the banquet at End Times. The Persian Simurgh, which is arguably a fifth accompaniment to the Kar, the Khara, the Hadhayosh, and another bird, the Chamrosh, has been said to be equated by the rabbis with the ziz, their three future-meal giant animals corresponding to ...

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Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Sky father

The sky father is a recurring theme in pagan and neopagan mythology. The sky father is the complement of the earth mother and appears in some creation myths, many of which are European or ancient Near Eastern. Other cultures have quite different myths; Egyptian mythology features a sky mother and an earthly dying and reviving god of vegetation. Shinto gives precedence to a sun goddess. A sky father also relates to a solar deity, a god identified with the sun. In Maori mythology, Ranginui was the sky father. In this story, the sky father and earth moth ...

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Sky father - History of the concept

Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Greek mythology

Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. Our surviving sources of mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition, supplemented by interpretations of iconic imagery, sometimes modern ones, sometimes ancient ones, as myth was a means for later Greeks themselves to throw light on cult practices and traditions that were no longer explicable. The historian must sometimes deduce from hints in imagery, such as in ...

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Greek mythology - Sources

Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Karl Kerényi

One of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology, Karl (Carl, Károly) Kerényi (January 19, 1897 - April 14, 1973) was born in Timisoara, then in Hungary, to a family of some landed property. At the University of Budapest he followed a program in classical philology with a doctorate on Plato and Longinus and aesthetic theory in Antiquity, and read widely. In the following years he taught in Hungary at the secondary school level, travelled in Greece and Italy and followed courses at Greifswald, Heidelberg and the Univer ...

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Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Triple Goddess

Followers of the Wiccan, Dianic, and Neopagan religions, as well as some archeologists and mythographers, believe that long before the coming of the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Triple Goddess embodied the three-fold aspect of Gaia, the Earth Mother (Roman Magna Mater). A mother goddess was worshipped under a variety of names not only in the Ancient Near East and the ...

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Triple Goddess - Maiden Mother and Crone

Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion. Joseph Campbell - Life. Campbell was born and raised in New York City in an upper middle class Roman Catholic family. As a child, Campbell became fascinated with Native American culture when his father took him to see the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He soon became versed in numerous aspects of Native A ...

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Joseph Campbell - Hero mythology and the monomyth

Mythology - Mythological archetypes: Encyclopedia - Great Mother

The Great Mother manifests itself in myth as a host of archaic images. Commonly conceived of as a nature goddess, the recurrent theme of nature and motherly care go hand in hand. As the prominent feature of many early Indo-European societies, the mother archetype manifests itself in a host of deities and symbolism (independent and therein). The most defined occurrence of a mother goddess is with the Celts, and their predecessors. The goddess Danu was an archaic character and was the namesake for the Celtic pantheon of gods, the ...

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