Symbolic
A place of death or metaphorically and encounter with the dark side of the self. Entering this is a form of facing a fear of death.
What is The Underworld?
An animal, or more usually a human, whose death in a public ceremony expiates some taint or sin of a community. They are often more powerful in death than in life.
What is The Scapegoat?
What the Hero must accomplish in order to bring fertility back to the wasteland, usually a search for some talisman, which will restore peace, order, and normalcy to a troubled land.
What is The Quest?
A non-hero, given the vocation of failure, frequently humorous
What is Anti-Hero?
Blood, sacrifice, violence, passion, disorder
What is Red?
A place or time of decision when a realization is made and change or penance results
What is The Crossroads?
This character is evil incarnate
What is the Devil Figure?
Sends the Hero in search of some truth that will help save his or her kingdom.
What is The Journey?
A hero who faces the possible destruction of society
What is Apocalyptic Hero?
Positive: growth, sensation, hope, fertility
Negative: death, disease , decay
What is Green?
Rebirth: a passage from one phase to another; death of the old life
Caves and Tunnels
What are Loyal Retainers?
What is Death and Rebirth?
This is NOT an archetypal journey:
Quest for Vengence
Epic Journey to find the Promised Land
The Fool's Errand
The Quest for Gold
What is The Quest for Gold?
Associated with the circle, life cycle, female principle, earth, nature
What is Four?
Spiritual beings intervene on the side of the hero or sometimes against him
What is Supernatural Intervention?
The Hero returns to his home and heritage where he is a stranger who can see new problems and new solutions
What is Young Man from the Provinces?
The actual ceremonies the Initiate experiences that will mark his or her rite of passage into another state.
What is the Ritual?
The Hero suffers for the sake of others
What is Hero as Scapegoat?
The mystery of life and the forces of regeneration
What is Egg (oval)?
A strong place of evil; represents the isolation of self
What is The Tower?
Symbolic of fruition, abundance, and fertility, this character traditionally offers spiritual and emotional nourishment to those with whom she comes in contact.
What is The Earth Mother?
When the adolescent comes into his maturity with new awareness and problems.
What is The Initiation?
This is NOT an Archetypal Journey:
The search for Love
The Tragic Quest: penance of self-denial
The Task of Killing the Monster
The Quest for Identity
What is The Task of Killing the Monster?
Wholeness; unity, perfection, eternity
What is a Circle (sphere)?