What is the difference between the rising and setting sun archetype?
Setting sun: Death
Rising sun: Birth, creation, enlightenment
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What does water in general represent?
Mysteries of creation, birth-death-resurection cycles, purification and redemption
100
What color represents blood, sacrifice, violent passion, or disorder?
Red
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Which number represents spiritual awareness and unity and is the male principle?
Three
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What character archetype represents the negative qualities of the earth mother, is known as the "femme fatal", and is often teh witch, sorceress, siren, whore, or seductress?
The terrible Mother
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This archetype represents creative energy, the passage of time and life, and consciousness.
The sun.
200
What does the river represent?
Death and rebirth (ie baptism) and transitional phases of the life cycle.
200
What does blue represent?
Spiritual purity, highly positive, truth, religious feelings, and security.
200
Which number is associated with the circle and earth, life cycle, and is the female principle?
Four
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What does the garden represent?
Paradise, innocence, unspoiled beauty, fertility
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What is the difference between the wheel and the circle?
The wheel represents fortune and fate.
The circle represents wholeness and unity.
300
What does the sea represent?
Mother of all life, timelessness and eternity.
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What does black represent?
chaos, mystery, unknown, death, and the unconscious.
300
What is the most potent of all symbolic numbers, the perfect order, and the completion of a cycle?
Seven
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Who came up with the idea of the "collective unconscious"?
Carl Jung
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What does the oval/egg represent?
The mystery of life and forces of generation.
400
Give an example from The Secret Garden using a water archetype.
After Mary tells Dicken that her uncle is letting her "have a bit of earth", it begins to rain.
400
White is a double sided coin; give a NEGATIVE example of it.
Ghosts, blanching in terror, turning pale in death.
400
In The Lion King, give an example of the number 3.
- 3 hyenas
- Simba, Pumbaa, and Timone
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What are the three steps to the hero initiation?
Separation, transformation, and return
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In the ancient Chinese symbol Yang-Yin, the Yang represents what and the Yin represents what?
Yang: Masculine principle, light, activity, the conscious mind.
Yin: Female principle, darkness, passivity, the unconscious mind.
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In the lion king, there is a scene where Simba walking across the log growing up. This archetype is also present.
The river
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Green is a double sided coin; give both a negative AND positive example from the lion king.
Positive: The Prideland was lush and green when Simba and Mufasa were in power.
Negative: In the hyena's cave, there was a lot of sickly green.
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Give an example of the number seven in the book of Revelations?
- 7 churches
- 7 golden lamp stands
- 7 seals
- 7 horns
- 7 spirits of God
- 7 eyes
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Give an example of why the snake is an archetype for evil, corruption, sensuality, destruction, and the unconscious.
- The Bible; Adam and Eve
- Ariel; Ursella's serpents are eel's (variation on serpent theme)