Campfire Friday: Does your religion contain a deity who represents the Shadow Archetype?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_%28psychology%29
Wow… That's Powerful John. There's so much meaning in that.
Yesh. Set. BTW, I recently read an article that spoke of heiroglyphs being found in Egypt in which it showed Osiris getting felatio by Set. Interesting I thought.
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I don't follow a religion, but that's an interesting article
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Only for those of the Tibetan branch, of which I am not.
Otherwise, we see the darkness, the negative side as part of ourselves, not as something external.
(To be fair, most Tibetan Buddhists are well aware of the Archetypal nature of the deities they use in their representations).
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Nix and Morpheus would both fall into that area more or less. Morpheus as Lord of Dreams would relate to the unconscious and dreams obviously. Nix is the Goddess of Night and Darkness and all things that walk therein.
Both are shadowed but not evil.
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Yesh. Set. BTW, I recently read an article that spoke of heiroglyphs being found in Egypt in which it showed Osiris getting felatio by Set. Interesting I thought.
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Not really. You really have to squish to make Jungian Psychology, which is inherently atheistic, work with my pantheons.
Some people have squished Wicca and Jungian Psychology, but only because they misunderstand both.
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Wiccan for over 20 years, degrees include Psychology.
my gods are whole beings and incorporate both darkness and light. a 'shadow archetype' would suggest something akin to the christian devil, which is contrary to everything i believe.
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There isn't a deity that represents it. It is just an inherited part of nature. It's manifestation is the MORTAL human body. Deity teaches to become completely free one must overcome and then rule this part of ones nature in order to become enlightened. The anti-deity exploits it and tries to make us be overcome and ruled by this part of our nature.
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I suppose that the closes to that particular Archetype would be Loki, who is often referred to as the Shadow side of Odin's nature, working in ways that Odin himself could not to accomplish things that need to be accomplished in order for Wyrd and Orlog to thake their course.
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priest of Odin
May 30th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Not that I have met.
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