This occupies the driver's seat of human consciousness.
What is the ego?
100
These are recurring themes/motifs in stories from different cultures and different eras expressing UNIVERSAL ideas.
What are Elementary Ideas?
100
The only mortal ever granted everlasting life by the gods.
Who is Uta-napishti?
100
The book by Joseph Campbell that introduces and refines the Hero's Journey.
What is The Hero with a Thousand Faces?
100
The first stage in the Hero's Journey.
What is Separation or Departure?
200
It's the personification of feminine psychological tendencies within a man--or getting in touch with your feminine side.
What is anima?
200
These are the local variations on the elementary ideas; because they are provincial, they are particular to a period of time or geographic location.
What are the Folk or Ethnic Ideas?
200
The city ruled by the historical King Gilgamesh, some time between 2500 and 2700 B.C.
What is Uruk?
200
In literature, archetypes typically fall into these categories:
What characters, symbols, and situations?
200
This low point for the hero alludes to a famous Biblical story, part of which occurs when it hero is underwater.
What is The Belly of the Whale?
300
The universal, primal memories present in all humans that link us to all other humans
What is the collective unconscious?
300
The question Bastian spent his time and fortune attempting to answer
Why do Elementary Ideas--Universals--occur everywhere?
300
The goddess of love who offered herself to Gilgamesh after he slew Humbaba.
Who is Ishtar?
300
I am sometimes viewed as a Christ figure because I've been rejected by or voluntarily left mainstream society.
What is the Outcast?
300
This genre of the Hero's Journey finds our hero saving the damsel in distress.
What is The Search for Love?
400
For Jung, the origin of all myth resides here
What are the archetypes of the unconscious?
400
I adopted Bastian's concept of common ideas in formulating my psychological theory of the collective unconscious.
Who is Carl Jung?
400
I was created to defeat the corrupt young King Gilgamesh, but I became his best friend.
Who is Enkidu?
400
I am one apart, someone who does not quite belong, but who is nonetheless needed by society.
What is the Superhero?
400
In Don Quixote, the title character acknowledges that he had undertaken this type of Hero's Journey.
What is The Fool's Errand?
500
Step across this line in the self, and you may not know where you're going.
What is the threshold of consciousness?
500
Not only am I the source of Bernie Brewer's ethnic garb, but I am Adolf Bastian's homeland.
What is Germany?
500
This story in Tablet XI of The Epic of Gilgamesh predates its better-known Biblical version by several centuries.
What is The Flood?
500
I am a symbol of life, cleansing, and rebirth and may even be depicted as a living, reasoning force.
What is Water?
500
In this step of the hero's Return, he no longer fears death, allowing him to exist fully in the moment, neither anticipating the future nor regretting the past.