>>14995011>>14994987Thanks. I took your posts to be more provocative than they were, I think you are genuinely inquisitive.
>How did these mythological figures and archetypes come about, then? Was it divine revelation of some sort?Yes, many people view them through meditational techniques, dreams/visions, and personal intuitions and art.
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Carl Jung clearly defines archetype in vol 9 The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
>"Archetype is an explanatory paraphrase of the Platonic eidos"i.e. the ideal forms of Plato. Pre-extant psychic structures. Psyche from the word "psychology" is a greek word that means "soul", the inner world is connected to the cosmic structures. This is the uncosncious.
He elaborates:
>The term “archetype” occurs as early as Philo Judaeus,3 with reference to the Imago Dei (God-image) in man. It can also be found in Irenaeus, who says: “The creator of the world did not fashion these things directly from himself but copied them from archetypes outside himself.”4 In the Corpus Hermeticum,5 God is called τò άρχέτυπov φώς (archetypal light). The term occurs several times in Dionysius the Areopagite, as for instance in De caelesti hierarchia, II, 4: “immaterial Archetypes,”6 and in De divinis nominibus, I, 6: “Archetypal stone.”7 The term “archetype” is not found in St. Augustine, but the idea of it is. Thus in De diversis quaestionibus LXXXIII he speaks of “ideae principales, ‘which are themselves not formed … but are contained in the divine understanding.’”8 “Archetype” is an explanatory paraphrase of the Platonic . For our purposes this term is apposite and helpful, because it tells us that so far as the collective unconscious contents are concerned we are dealing with archaic or—I would say—primordial types, that is, with universal images that have existed since the remotest times.Highly recommended
