Most Common Archetypes

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  1. TruthSeeker Fancy Virtual Reality Monkey Valued Senior Member

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    What are the most common archetypes found throughout religions, and what do they mean?
     
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  3. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Virgin birth
    resurrection
    flying

    to name a few
     
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  5. TruthSeeker Fancy Virtual Reality Monkey Valued Senior Member

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    Where do you see those aside from christianity?
     
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  7. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    Mithraism, Egyptian mythology, Celtic mythology... for resurrection at least.
     
  8. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    sacrifice

    seen famously in mesoamerican religions
     
  9. TruthSeeker Fancy Virtual Reality Monkey Valued Senior Member

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    What's the point of ressurection, then? Why is it do popular?
     
  10. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    transcending death is a common theme because people fear death
     
  11. TruthSeeker Fancy Virtual Reality Monkey Valued Senior Member

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    Why do they?
     
  12. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    It's a great evolutionary advantage to fear death, for reasons I'm sure are obvious.
     
  13. TruthSeeker Fancy Virtual Reality Monkey Valued Senior Member

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    If you live in the wild... I suppose. But not nowdays...
     
  14. andbna Registered Senior Member

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    Nowadays things are just as dangerous. Do you check both ways before crossing the street? or better still, do you stroll across a freeway at will?

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    How about "do unto others..." the golden rule? I'd say thats an archetype.
    -Andrew
     
  15. Michael 歌舞伎 Valued Senior Member

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    The redeemer.

    sacrifices himself for the well being of humanity
     
  16. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    Any archetype is met in almost all mythologies of the world, that's why it's an archetype.

    Some archetypes: trickster, soul, god, afterlife, virgin birth, resurrection/second birth, redeeming hero, the power of sacriface, spirit world, the serpent.

    This is an interesting topic, but unfortunately I have my exams full swing now. Don't have the time...

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    p.s. Golden rule is no archetype, it's just ethics.
     
  17. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    Andbna already gave a pretty good reply. But that aside, you asked why people fear death. I answered.

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  18. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    It's not only fear of death, but on how to live, how to face problems and fear, how to be a good husband/wife, how to deal with enemies, how to be not influenced by others, etc. All to do with modern life, because on the social level it's not much different.

    p.s. I spend lots of my time in the wild.
     
  19. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    Good, evil, the struggle between the two, and the ultimate triumph of the former over the latter.

    Creation. Floods or other natural disasters brought on by the divine. The end of the world. A reward/punishment system tied to behavior.

    The more I think about it, the more I realize that the archetypes in religion, for the most part, can be found even in lots of cultures' non-religious arts and literatures. I think we're all describing archetypes in the way humans think, rather than merely archetypes of religion.
     
  20. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    Good and evil - no. It's mostly a semitic concept. Many mythologies have nothing to do with good and evil.
    Besides not everywhere the 'good' triumphs.

    Sorry about the short answers, when the exams finish, I will write a proper reply in this thread.
     
  21. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    Religion uses the archetypes, archetypes are independent of religion and are a part of our psyche.
     
  22. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    jung is one of my favorites.

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  23. Wisdom_Seeker Speaker of my truth Valued Senior Member

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    I´m impressed no one had mention the most common archetype of all. And it is the unnatural taboo of sex... ejaculation?

    Even the most primitive cultures have this taboo, some african tribes cut down the females´ clitoris. 50% of men in the US are circumsized, and even the Bible starts with a man and a woman, isn´t that normal?
    Cosidering we are naturally like animals, it is the superiority complex (belief of being superior than animals) that made men realize they were behaving like animals, sexually speaking.
     

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