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Archetypen

 

 

Die Archetypenlehre von Carl Gustav Jung

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Six Archetypes of Love – Dr. Allan Hunter

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Galerie der Archetypen nach Caroline Myss, Autorin, Sacred Contracts, CMED Institute

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Süchtiger (Prestigekäufer, Vielfraß, Arbeitssüchtiger, sh. auch Spieler)

• Film: Jack Lemmon und Lee Remick, Die Tage des Weins und der Rosen (Alkohol); Ben Stiller, Voll auf Droge (Heroin); Dom de Luise, Fatso (Essen); Claire Bloom, Der Chapman-Report (Sex)
• Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht (Morphin)
• Religion / Mythosen: Soma (vedischer Gott der Vergiftung, Pflanze und giftiger Trank daraus)\\ Tantalus (Sohn des Zeus)

 

Advokat (Rechtsanwalt, Verteidiger, Gesetzgeber, Lobbyist, Umweltschützer)

• Film: Paul Newman, Die Wahrheit und nichts als die Wahrheit; Spencer Tracy, Wer den Wind sät; Julia Roberts, Die Akte, Erin Brockovich; Robert Duvall, Der Pate Trilogie (Schatten)
• TV-Serie: Perry Mason; L.A. Law; The Practice
• Märchen: Der gestiefelte Kater
• Religion / Mythosos: David (aus dem AT, schlug den Riesen Goliath); Hakuim (präislamische Gottheit Südarabiens, Richter, Schiedsrichter)

 

Alchemist (Zauberer, Magier, Wissenschaftler, Erfinder, siehe auch Visionär)

• Film: Spencer Tracy, Der große Edison; Greer Garson, Madame Curie; Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Gates; Noah Wyle als Steve Jobs, Die Silicon Valley Story (HBO Video); Fred MacMurray (oder Robin Williams), Der zerstreute Professor; Katharine Hepburn, African Queen; Jane Powell, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Jeff Goldblum, The Fly (Schatten); Patrick Stewart und Ian McKellan, X-Men (Schatten)
• Roman: Paulo Coelho, Der Alchemist; Marion Z. Bradley, Die Nebel von Avalon; J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter Buchserie;  Lewis Carroll, Alice im Wunderland
• Drama: William Gibson, The Miracle Worker
• Religion / Mythosos: Merlin (Zauberer, Prophet und Ratgeber im Leben von König Arthur); Cessair (Magierin und erste Königin von Irland); Tezcatlipoca (Aztekischer Gott der Nacht und der materiellen Dinge, schwarzmagischer Spiegel aus Obsidian oder Hämatit, der Gedanken und Handlungen der Menschheit spiegelte und Feinde töten konnte); Paracelsus (Schweizer Alchemist und Arzt, 16. Jahrhundert, der Menschen beschrieb als das mikrokosmische Spiegelbild des Makrokosmos); Hermes Trismegistos (griechischer mythischer Götterbote); Simon (Samaritanischer Magier in der Apostelgeschichte, Kapitel 8, 9-24); Suyolak (Zigeunerzauber, der alle medizinischen Kuren kennt).
• Märchen: Rumpelstilzchen (Stroh in Gold spinnen).

 

Engel (Feen)

• Film: Herbert Marshall, The Enchanted Cottage; Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier; Tante March an Amy, Little Women; die beiden Engel, It's A Wonderful Life; Marlon Brando, Der Pate  Trilogie (Schatten); Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Grand Canyon
• Märchen: L. Frank Baum, Glinda in Der Zauberer von Oz
• Religion / Mythosos: Angiris (hinduistische Engel, die Opferungen verwalten); Uriel (rabbinische Folklore, der Engel, der mit Jakob rang); Gabriel (der vor Maria erschien [NT]], diktierte den Koran an Prophet Mohammed); Sijil (islamische Engel, die die himmlischen Schriftrollen verwalten); Tenshi (japanische Engel, Götterboten und Helfer der Menschheit); Luzifer und Iblis (böse Engel des mittelalterlichen christlichen und islamischen Glaubens, die an der Zerstörung des Menschen arbeiten); Fravashis (altertümliche zoroastrische Schutzengel, Führer der Seelen der Toten im Himmel); Ombwiri (Schutzengel des Stammes und Ahnengeister in Zentralafrika); Athene (Göttin, die immer Odysseus in der Odyssee hilft)

 

Künstler (Kunsthandwerker, Handwerker, Bildhauer, Weber)

• Film: Ed Harris, Pollock; Alec Guinness, The Horse's Mouth; Isabelle Adjani, Camille Claudel; Kirk Douglas, Lust for Life; Gene Kelly, Ein Amerikaner in Paris
• Drama:  Peter Schaffer, Amadeus
• Roman: James Joyce, Ein Porträt des Künstlers als junger Mann; Joyce Cary, Des Pudels Kern
• Märchen: Carlo Collodi, Gepetto in Pinocchio
• Religion / Mythos: Galatea (Bildhauer des griechischen Mythos, der die Statue des Pygmalion Leben einhauchte); Shen-nung (einer der drei Edlen der chineschen Mythologie, der den Pflug erfand und den Menschen Landwirtschaft lehrte); Basa-Jaun (in der baskischen Folklore, ein Holzgeist, der den Menschen das Metallschmieden beibrachte); Saraswati (hinduistischen Patronin der Künste); Ptah (ägyptischer Schöpfergott, Gottheit der Handwerker); Ambat (melanesische Heldengottheit, der das Töpfern lehrte); Ixzaluoh (Wassergöttin der Maya, die das Weben erfand); Hiro (polynesischer Held, der den Menschen das Schreiben beibrachte); Hephaistos (griechischer Schmiedegott, Patron aller Handwerker und Gewerbetreibenden).

 

Sportler (Olympier)

• Film: Esther Williams, Million Dollar Mermaid; Burt Lancaster, Jim Thorpe, All American; Tom Courtenay, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner; Daniel Day Lewis. My Left Foot; Hoop Dreams (Dokumentarfilm)
• Roman: Bernard Malamud, The Natural; Mary Mapes Dodge, Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates
• Märchen: Hase und Igel
• Religion / Mythos: Atalanta (Sportlerin im griechischen Mythos); Smertios (keltischer bärtiger Kriegsgott); Nike (weibliche Siegesgöttin im griechischen Mythos), Samson (nazarenischer Hüne und alttestamentarischer Richter); Achilles (griechischer Krieger, bekannt für seine außerordentliche Macht, Held der Iliade); Smertrios (keltisch-gälischer Kriegsgott, dargestellt als bärtiger Sportler).

 

Rächer (der Enterbten) (Racheengel, Erlöser, Messias)

• Film: Ingrid Bergman, The Visit; Jane Fonda, Cat Ballou; John Wayne, The Searchers; Julia Roberts, Erin Brokovich; Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin (*1939) US-amerikanische Schauspielerin, Nine to Five; Vincent Price, Theatre of Blood (Schatten, ein Schauspieler, der seine Kritiker tötet); Al Pacino, Der Pate (Schatten); Robert de Niro oder Robert Mitchum, Cape Fear (Schatten)
• Drama:  Äschylos' Trilogie Orestie, William Shakespeare, Hamlet und Macbeth
• Roman: Harper S. Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
• Religion / Mythos: die Furien oder Erynnien (Rachegeister der römischen und griechischen Mythologie); Bastet (ägyptische katzenköpfige Göttin, das Rachewerkzeug  des Gottes Ra); Durga (Rachegöttin des hinduistischen Pantheons); Kali (hinduistische Muttergöttin, symbolisiert Zerstörung, beendet Ignoranz, Erhalterin der Weltordnung).

 

Bettler (Obdachloser, Bedürftigkeit)

• Film: Patrick Swazye, City of Hope
• Roman: Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist;  Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
• Sachbuch: Linda Schierse Leonard, Ph.D., Meeting the Madwoman
• Religion / Mythos: Lazarus (der Bettler in Lukas 16, 22-23, der nach seinem Tod von zwei Engeln in Abrahams Schoß getragen wurde", während der reiche Mann, der vergeblich um Einlass bat, in die Unterwelt); Yeta (japanischer Bettler, möglicherweise der verkleidet Inari, Gott des Essens oder Reisgöttin); Odysseus (der sich als Bettler verkleidete, als er von Troja kommend heimkehrte); Lan Cai-he (taoistische Mythologie, einer der acht Unsterblichen, der sich in Lumpen kleidete und als betrunkener Bettler auf den Straßen rumtrieb).

 

Tyrann (Feigling)

• Film: Matt Dillon, My Bodyguard; Jack Palance, Shane; Mel Gibson, Braveheart; James Cagney, The Fighting 69th; Bert Lahr, Der Zauberer von Oz; Jack Nicholson, As Good as It Gets
• Roman: Stephen Vincent Benet, The Red Badge of Courage
• Märchen: Hans und die Bohnenstange; Hans, der Riesentöter

 

Kind (Waisenkind, Verwundetes Kind, Magisches/Unschuldiges Kind, Naturkind, Göttliches Kind, Ewiger Junge / Ewiges Mädchen)
In jeder Psyche sind alle Kind-Aspekte vorhanden, während ein Aspekt gewöhnlich dominiert.

 

Waisenkind

• Film: Margaret O'Brien, The Secret Garden; Victoire Thivisol, Ponette; Hayley Mills, Pollyanna
• Roman: Charles Dickens, David Copperfield; L. Frank Baum, Der Zauberer von Oz
• Drama: Thomas Middleton, The Changeling
• Märchen: Schneewittchen, Aschenputtel, Bambi, Die kleine Meerjungfrau
• Religion / Mythos: Romulus und Remus (Zwillinge des römischen Mythos, die in den Tiber geworfen werden, von einer Wölfin gerettet wurde und die Gründer Roms wurden); Moses; der Däne Havelock (mittelalterliche Liebesliteratur, der verwaiste Sohn von Birkabegn, König von Dänemark wird ausgesetzt und von einem englischen Fischer gerettet und schließlich König von Dänemark und einem Teil von England)

 

Verwundetes Kind

• Film: Diana Scarwid, Mommie Dearest; Dean Stockwell, The Secret Garden; Linda Blair, Der Exorzist; Natalie Wood, Das Wunder der 34. Straße; Leonardo di Caprio, This Boy's Life; Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy''
• Roman: Richard Wright, Native Son; Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
• Religion / Mythos: Amazonen (Kriegerfrauen des griechischen Mythos, denen als Kinder die rechte Brust entfernt wurde, um mit dem Bogen als Hauptwaffe schießen zu können)

 

Magisches Kind / Unschuldiges Kind

• Film: Drew Barrymore, E.T.; Margaret O'Brien, Meet Me in St. Louis; George du Fresne, Ma Vie en Rose; Shirley Temple, Good Ship Lollipop
• Roman: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) französischer Schriftsteller, Flieger, Der kleine Prinz; Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Langstrumpf; Lewis Carroll, Alice im Wunderland und Through the Looking-Glass und What Alice Found There
• Religion / Mythos: Merlin (das "vaterlose Kind" in der Artussage, das geopfert werden sollte und sich selbst dadurch rettete, dass es größere Magie aufbot als die Zauberer des Königs)

 

Naturkind

• Film: Elizabeth Taylor, National Velvet; Anna Paquin, Fly Away Home; Claude Jarman, The Yearling; Kelly Reno, The Black Stallion; Tommy Kirk, Old Yeller; Jean-Pierre Cargol, The Wild Child
• TV-Serie: Rin Tin Tin; Flipper; Lassie
• Roman: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
• Lied: Nature Boy
• Religion / Mythos: Persephone (in der griechischen Mythologie, Tochter der Göttin Demeter, die von Pluto entführt wurde und mit den landwirtschaftlichen Wachstumszyklen und der Erntezeit gleichgesetzt wird); Hlg. Franz von Assisi (italienischer katholischer Ordensbruder, der angeblich mit Tieren sprach)

Kind: Puer Eternis / Puella Eternis (Ewiger Junge / Ewiges Mädchen)

• Film: Tom Hanks, Big; Pee Wee Herman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure; Carroll Baker, Baby Doll; Thomas Hulce, Dominic and Eugene und als Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amadeus
• Märchen: Peter Pan
• Religion / Mythos: Cupido (Knabengott im römischen Mythos, der angeblich aus einem Silberei geboren wurde); Harpa-Khruti (Horus, das Kind); Harpokrates (griechischer Gott der Stille und Geheimhaltung, dargestellt als nackter Junge, der am Finger lutscht);

 

Göttliches Kind

• Film: Terence Stamp, Billy Budd; als Darsteller des jungen Dalai Lama in Kundun; als Darsteller des jungen Pu Yi in Der letzte Kaiser; Alex Wiesendanger, Little Buddha.
• Religion / Mythos: Horus (im ägyptischen Mythos, göttlicher Sohn von Isis und Osiris); Siddartha Gautama (angesehen als künftiger Buddha proklamierte nach seiner Geburt, dass sein Rad der Inkarnationen nun zu Ende gehe); Prager Jesulein (Statue von Jesus als Kind in königlichem Gewand mit Krone, aus dem 17. Jhdt. Tschechoslowakei); Demophon (im griechischen Mythos,  Sohn von Königin Metanira von Eleusis, betreut von der Amme Demeter / Isis); 18. Balakrishna (Krishnas Kind im hinduistischen Mythos); Suitengu (japanischer Kindgott des Meeres)

 

Clown (Hofnarr, Narr, Komödiant, Dummling)

• Film: Danny Kaye, Der Hofnarr; Buster Keaton, The Navigator, Sherlock Jr., The General; Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), The Circus, Der Goldrausch; Giulletta Masina, La Strada; Barbra Steisand, What's Up, Doc?; Rene Zellweger, Nurse Betty; Woody Allen, Zelig.
• Drama: Maxim Gorky, He Who Gets Slapped
• Oper: Rugierro Leoncavallo, Der Bajazzo
• Literature: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quichote; Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool; Edward Hays, Holy Fools and Mad Hatters; Margaret George, Die Autobiographie von Heinrich VIII. mit Anmerkungen von seinem Hofnarren und Will Somers
• Religion / Mythos: Mullah Nasruddin aka. Hoja Nasredin (Figur aus dem Sufismus in Ägypten, Iran und Türkei, halb Heiliger und halb Narr, der trottelhaft Weisheit lehrt); Sir Dagonet (König Arthurs Hofnarr, der zum Scherz zum Ritter geschlagen wurde und tapfer an Ritterturnieren teilnahm); Heyoka (in den Legenden der Lakota Sioux, jemand, das Pferd von hinten aufzäumt, damit sich die Leute nicht allzu ernst nehmen); Kojote (in den Legenden der Amerikanischen Sagenwelt)

 

Weggefährte (Freund, Handlanger, Rechter Arm, Begleiter)

• Film: Eve Arden, Mildred Pierce, The Lady Takes a Sailor, The Kid from Brooklyn; Frank Sinatra und Montgomery Clift, From Here to Eternity; Susan Sarandon und Geena Davis, Thelma und Louise
• TV-Serie: My Friend Flicka; Lassie
• Roman: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Figur Dr. Watson)
• Drama: William Shakespeare, Iago in Othello (Schatten)
• Religion / Mythos: Damon und Pythias (in der christlichen Legende, zwei junge Männer, die zueinander hielten und die Freiheit gewannen, nachdem Pythias zum Tod verurteilt wurde); Enkidu (Weggefährte, der von Göttern für Gilgamesch geschaffen wurde, ein gewöhnlicher Mann, der genau zugeschnitten war auf den gottähnlichen Heldenkönig); Eris (griechische Streitgöttin und Dauergefährtin des Kriegsgottes Mars); Apis (der heilige Stier, der im alten Ägypten verehrt wurde als Gefährte des Schöpfergottes Ptah); Nike (griechische Siegesgöttin und Gefährtin der Weisheits- und Kriegsgöttin Athene)

 

Jungfer (Prinzessin)

• Film: Pearl White und Betty Hutton, The Perils of Pauline (Stummfilme); Fay Wray, King Kong; Jean Simmons, Young Bess; Robin Wright, The Prinzessin Bride; Carrie Fisher als Prinzessin Leia, Star Wars Trilogie; Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia; Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love; Kate Winslet, Titanic; Jeff Daniels, Something Wild
• Roman: Margaret Mitchell, Vom Winde verweht; Jane Austin, Emma
• Märchen: Schneewittchen, Dornröschen|Dornröschen, Rapunzel, Aschenputtel
• Religion / Mythos: Ko-no-Hana (im Shinto-Glauben, japanische Blütenprinzessin, symbolisiert die zarten Aspekte der irdischen Welt); Io (im griechischen Mythos, Prinzessin und Tochter des Flussgottes, ständiges Lustobjekt von Gott Zeus); Prinzessin Aigiarm (starke Tochter des mongolischen Königs Kaidu, der jedem Anwärter die Ehe mit ihr verspräch, der sie im Kampf besiegte. Würde er unterliegen, musste er mit einem Pferd bezahlen. Sie hat nie geheiratet und 10.000 Pferde bekommen)

 

Zerstörer (Attila, Verrückter Professor/Wissenschaftler, Serienmörder, Verderber)

• Film: Jack Palance, The Sign of the Pagan; William Holden, The Wild Bunch; Anthony Hopkins, Das Schweigen der Lämmer; Ralph Fiennes, Schindlers Liste; Richard Baseheart, Hitler.
• Religion / Mythos: Angra Mainyu oder Ahriman (in Zoroastrianism, the eternal destroyer of good, personification of evil, conveyor of death and disease); Kalki (in Hindu belief, the final incarnation of Vishnu, who will descend from the sky on a white horse to destroy the wicked, renew the world, and restore righteousness); the Furies or Erynies (avenging deities of Greek myth who pursued and persecuted anyone who killed a parent, brother, or fellow clansman, by driving the murderer mad); the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (allegorical figures in the New Testament Book of Revelation, or Apocalypse, who symbolize war, pestilence, famine, and death).

 

Dedektiv (Spion, Doppelagent, Spürhund, Schnüffler, Sherlock Holmes, Privatdedektiv, Profiler, sh. auch Krieger/ Kriminaler)

• Film: Humphrey Bogart, Der Malteser Falke und The Big Sleep; Richard Burton, Der Spion, der aus der Kälte; Kelly McGillis und Jeff Daniels, The House on Carroll Street; Kathleen Turner, V. I. Warshawski; Laurence Olivier, Sleuth; alle Filme mit James Bond, Sherlock Holmes oder Charlie Chan
• Roman: Dashiel Hammett, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Rex Stout, Agatha Christie; John LeCarré, Tom Clancy
• TV-Serie: Magnum, P.I.; I Spy
• Religion / Mythos: Sinon (in der griechischen Legende, ein Spion, der das Vertrauen der Trojaner gewann, von den Greeks desertiert zu sein, überredete sie, sich in einem Holzpferd zu verbergen, was zu ihrem Niedergang führte).

 

Dilettant/in (Amateur/in)

• Film: Catherine Frot, La Dilettante; Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie; Liza Minnelli, Cabaret; Spring Byington, You Can't Take It with You; Hermione Gingold, The Music Man; John Savage, The Amateur; Henry Fonda, The Lady Eve (Amateur).
• Roman: Sinclair Lewis, Dodsworth; Edith Wharton, "The Dilettante"

 

Don Juan (Weiberheld, Gigolo, Verführer, Sexsüchtiger)

• Film: Warren Beatty, Shampoo; Richard Gere, American Gigolo; Donald Sutherland, Casanova; Michael Caine, Alfie; Johnny Depp, Don Juan di Marco; Jude Law, A.I.
• Roman: Henry Miller, Quiet Days in Clichy
• Religion / Mythos: Satyr (in Greek myth, a creature with a goat's tail, flanks, hooves, and horns, but otherwise human upper body, who drinks, dances, and chases nymphs. The Italian version is the faun, and in Slavonic culture, the Ljeschi); Priapus (Greek and Roman deity of gardens attributed with enormous genitals); Aka Manah (in Zoroastrianism, the personification of sensual desire).

 

Ingenieur (Architekt, Erbauer, Schemer)

• Film: Alec Guinness, Die Brücke über den Kwai; Gary Cooper, The Fountainhead; Jeff Bridges, Tucker
• Drama: Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder
• Religion / Mythos: Elen (in Welsh myth, the world's first highway engineer, who protected her land by magically creating highways so that her soldiers could defend it); Amenhotep (ancient Egyptian architect who later was venerated as the god of building); Daedalus (renowned Cretan architect who constructed the Labyrinth of the Minotaur and fashioned artificial wings for himself and his son, Icarus).

 

Exorzist (Schamane)

• Film: Jason Miller, Der Exorzist; Bruce Willis, Der sechste Sinn
• Religion / Mythos: Shoki (Shinto god of the afterlife and exorcism); Zhong kui (Taoist god of the afterlife and exorcism).

 

Vater (Patriarch, Erzeuger)

• Film: William Powell, Life with Father; Spencer Tracy, Der Vater der Braut; Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer; Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird; Lamberto Maggiorani, The Bicycle Thief; Raymond Massey, East of Eden (Schatten).
• TV-Serie: Robert Young in Father Knows Best; Fred MacMurray in My Three Sons.
• Roman: All the Way Home by James Agee.
• Religion / Mythos: Most ancient cultures had at least one Father god, usually associated with the sky, who also functioned as creator and patriarch, including Uranus and Zeus (Greece); Jupiter (Rome); Indra and Brahma (India); the "Jade Emperor" (China); Izanagi (Japan); Re and Ptah (Egypt); Olorun and Obatala (Africa/Yoruba).

 

Femme Fatale (Schwarze Witwe, Flirterin, Sirene, Circe, Verführerin, Bezaubernde)

• Film: Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity; Linda Fiorentino, Die letzte Verführung; Theresa Russell, Schwarze Witwe; Marilyn Monroe und Jane Russell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Kathleen Turner, Body Heat; Elizabeth Taylor, Kleopatra
• Roman: James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Religion / Mythos: Circe (im griechischen Mythos, eine verführerische Zaubererin, konnnte Männer mit ihrem Zauberstab in Tier verwandeln); Potiphars Frau (im Alten Testament, als ihr Versuch, Joseph zu verführen misslang, ließ sie ihn gefangennehmen. In der islamischen Tradition heißt sie Suleika [Zeleikha]); Tapairu (Polynesian nymphs who inhabit the waters that lead to the underworld. The goddess of death employs them to seduce men away from the earth); Lorelei (in Teutonic myth, a beautiful maiden who drowned herself after being spurned by her lover, and was then transformed into a siren whose hypnotic music lured sailors to their death).

 

Spieler

• Film: Steve McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid (Schatten); Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, and George C. Scott (Schatten) in The Hustler; Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't Jump; Edith Evans in The Queen of Spades; Clive Owen in Croupier; Roger Duchesne in Bob le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler).
• Roman: The Gambler by Dostoevsky
• Religion / Mythos: Jason, Odysseus (heroic figures of Greek legend who fearlessly gambled against the odds, risking life and limb to achieve their goals); Cunawabi (American Indian--Paiute--figure known as a gambler who takes many risky adventures and who also brings night and illness)

 

Gott (Adonis, sh. auch Held)

• Jupiter/Zeus: father god, head of the pantheon
• Bacchus/Dionysus: wine and revelry
• Mars/Ares: war
• Neptune/Poseidon: the sea
• Pluto/Hades: death and the underworld
• Film:
• Religion / Mythos: Like the archetype in human manifestation, mythic and religious Gods run the gamut from omniscient, benevolent deity to arbitrary destroyer. In addition to those listed above are Yahweh (Hebrew); Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Indra (Hindu); Allah (Muslim); Ra, Osiris, Ptah (Egyptian); Baal (Canaanite); Marduk, Ishtar (Babylonian); Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca (Aztec); Enlil, Dumuzi (Sumerian); Osun, Olokun (Yoruba); Wakan Tanka (Native American).

 

Göttin (sh. auch Heldin)

• Venus/Aphrodite: love and fertility
• Diana/Artemis: nature and hunting
• Minerva/Athena: strength, clear thinking
• Ceres/Demeter: motherhood
• Juno/Hera: queenship and partnership
• Proserpina/Persephone: mysticism and mediumship
• Sophia: wisdom
• Film: Kim Stanley in The Goddess; Ava Gardner in One Touch of Venus; Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch; Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite.
• Roman: She by H. Rider Haggard
• Religion / Mythos: Every culture in the world has mythological stories portraying the power of the Goddess. Besides those mentioned above, you can choose from Tara and Quanyin (Tibetan and Chinese bodhisattvas of compassion); Amaterasu Omigami (Shinto Sun goddess); Shakti (Hindu personification of energy as Divine Mother); Branwen (Celtic goddess of love and beauty); Oshun (East African Yoruba goddess of pleasure, love, and beauty); Pan Jin Lian (Chinese goddess of prostitution); Frigg (Norse goddess of Ehe, motherhood, childbirth, and midwifery); Turan (Etruscan goddess of love, health, and fertility).

 

Klatschbase (sh.  auch Vernetzer)

• Film: Rosalind Russell, The Women; Richard Hayden, Sitting Pretty; Burt Lancaster, The Sweet Smell of Success; John Malkovich und Glenn Close,  Dangerous Liaisons
• Religion / Mythos: Ratatosk (in Norse myth, a squirrel whose name means "swift teeth," lives in the World Tree called Yggdrasil and is a notorious gossip).

 

Führer (Guru, Weiser, Alte Weise, Weise Frau, Spiritueller Meister, Evangelist, Prediger)

• Film: Meetings with Remarkable Men; Robert Duval in The Apostle.
• Religion / Mythos: Marpa (Buddhist master and guru of Milarepa who guided him through arduous tasks to become the greatest yogi of Tibet);

 

Heiler (Mehrere: Verwundeter Heiler, Intuitiver Heiler, Betreuer, Krankenschwester, Pfleger, Therapeut, Analytiker, Berater)

• Religion / Mythos: Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa (Jewish healer considered to have been in the same class as Jesus); Ninkarrak (Babylonian/Sumerian goddess who nursed sick humans); Bear Medicine Woman (American Indian healing spirit); Mukuru (creator god of the Herero bushmen of Namibia, who sends life-giving rain, heals the sick, and cares for the elderly).

 

Wounded Healer

• Film: Ellen Burstyn, Resurrection; Louise Fletcher, Einer flog übers Kuckucksnest (Schatten); Rosalind Russell, Sister Kenny; Barbara Stanwyck, Miracle Woman'' (based on Aimee Semple McPherson).
• Roman: The Citadel by A. J. Cronin; Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (Schatten).
• Religion / Mythos: Asklepios (Greek hero who later become a plague god, then the god of medicine and healing); Aesculapius (Roman god of healing based on the Greek Asklepios); Garuda (great golden bird with an eagle's beak and wings and human body, the Indian symbol of medicine); Meditrina ("Healer," a Roman goddess of wine and health who was later syncretized into the cult of Aesculapius); Eeyeekalduk (Inuit god of healing); the Medicine Buddhas (most prominently, Bhaishajyaguru in Tibet and Yakushi-Nyorai in Japan, who symbolize the healing and transformative quality of buddhahood).

 

Hedonist (Bon Vivant, Chefkoch, Gourmet, Vielfraß, Sybarite – sh. auch Mystiker)

• Film: Babbettes Fest; Like Water for Chocolate; Big Night.
• Roman: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding; The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera; Les Liaisons Dangereuses by P. Choderlos DeLaclos.
• Religion / Mythos: Oshun (Yoruba goddess of love and pleasure who is generous and benign); Bebhionn (Irish patron goddess of pleasure); Qadesh (Western Semitic fertility goddess and epitome of female sexuality and eroticism); Bes (Egyptian dwarf god originally associated with royalty and childbirth who became popular among the masses as a god of human pleasures of mirth, music, and dance).

 

Held / Heldin (sh. auch Ritter, Krieger)

• Film: Sigourney Weaver in Alien; Dustin Hoffman in Hero; Anthony Hopkins in Zorro; Jeff Bridges in The Last American Hero; Kevin Costner in Postman and Waterworld; Debbie Reynolds in The Unsinkable Molly Brown; Seema Biswas (as Phoolan Devi) in Bandit Queen.
• Religion / Mythos: Ulysses (hero of The Odyssey whose most renowned trait was his supreme resourcefulness, the ability to find a way out of the most dangerous situation); Arjuna (in the Bhagavad Gita, his questioning of his Hero/Warrior role leads the god Krishna to instruct him in divine wisdom); Hidesato (in Japanese legend, a killer of many monsters, including the feared Centipede); Saynday (a hero-trickster of the Native American Kiowa tribe); Paul Bunyan (legendary hero of the lumber camps of the American Northwest, whose feats included creating the Grand Canyon by dragging his axe behind him); Theseus (Athenian hero who slew the Marathonian Bull and the Minotaur); Bernardo del Caprio (semi-mythical ninth-century Spanish credited with defeating Roland at Roncesvalles).

 

Richter (Kritiker, Examiner, Mediator, Schiedsrichter)

• Film: Spencer Tracy in Judgment at Nuremberg; Louis Calhern as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee; John Forsythe in And Justice for All (Schatten); Dominic Guard in The Go-Between
• Roman: Billy Budd, Foretopman (Capt. Starry Vere) by Herman Melville; The Ambassadors by Henry James.
• Religion / Mythos: Skan (creator god of the Dakota Sioux who judges both gods and the souls of humans); Yama (Hindu and Buddhist god of death, judge of the dead, and ruler of death's kingdom or the hell realms); Pluto/Hades (Roman/Greek god of the underworld and judge of the dead); Thoth (primarily the Egyptian patron deity of scribes, also known as a mediator among the gods); San-guan ("Three Rulers," collective name for three Taoist deities who keep a register of the good and evil deeds of people).

 

König (Kaiser, Herrscher, Führer, Häuptling)

• Film: Charles Laughton in The Private Life of König Henry VIII; Yul Brynner in The König and I; Richard Gere in König David; Paul Scofield in König Lear (1971); Christopher Walken in The König of New York (Schatten extraordinaire).
• Drama: Richard III, Henry IV, Henry V, Hamlet, and Macbeth by Shakespeare.
• Roman: King of the Gypsies by Peter Maas; The Godfather by Mario Puzo (Schatten); The Once and Future King by T.H.White.
• Religion / Mythos: Priam (König of Troy); Daibutsu/Daibosatsu (Japanese meditating buddha as world ruler); Sila or Silap inua (divine ruler of the Eskimo seen as the air you breathe and the energy that moves both the entire universe each of us individually); Amun (supreme Egyptian creator god, originally ruler of the air and the force behind wind and breezes); Chief Seattle (1780-1866) US-amerikanischer Häuptling der Suquamish und Duwamish, Haile Selassie, Kaiser von Äthiopien, vergöttert von der Rastafari-Religion

Knight (see also Warrior, Rescuer)

• Film: Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Tom Hanks in Apollo 13; Christopher Reeve in Superman; Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, Tin Cup, and JFK.
• Drama: Man of LaMancha by Dale Wasserman
• Märchen: Prince Valiant
• Religion / Mythos: Knights of the Round Table (in medieval English lore, a semi-mythic group of 150 knights including Lancelot, Gawain, Kay, Mordred, Galahad, and others who served under König Artur); Sir Percival/Parzifal (Knight of the Round Table who got to see the Holy Grail); Fabian (a good knight turned into a forest spirit by his ex-lover, a sorceress, and now dwells in the hills near Prague); Damas (Schatten Knight who trapped other knights so that his brother could fight them).

 

Befreier

• Film: Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek; Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame; Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc; Tom Selleck in In and Out.
• Roman: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
• Märchen: Belling the Cat
• Religion / Mythos: Dionysus and Eros (both bore other names meaning "the liberator").

 

Liebender

• Film: Nicholas Cage, Moonstruck; Charles Denner in The Man Who Loved Women (Truffaut version); Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca; Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac.
• Drama: Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
• Poetry: Troilus and Cressida by Chaucer
• Roman: Stealing Heaven by Marion Meade (Abelard and Heloise)
• Märchen: The Prinzessin and the Frog; Beauty and the Beast.
• Religion / Mythos: Pyramus and Thisbe (star-crossed Babylonian lovers, described by Ovid, who commit double suicide); Endymion (in Greek myth a shepherd boy and mortal lover of the moon goddess Selene); Hasu-Ko (a Japanese girl who died of love for her betrothed, whom she had never seen); Freya (Norse goddess of love and fertility and symbol of sensuality, lover of music, spring, flowers, and elves); Guinevere and Lancelot (although Guinevere was married to König Artur and Lancelot was one of his favorite knights, they pursued an affair that led to the eventual undoing of the Round Table).

 

Märtyrer

• Film: Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons; Meryl Streep in Silkwood; Denzel Washington in Malcolm X; Ben Kingsley in Gandhi.
• Drama: Saint Joan by G.B. Shaw.
• Roman: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
• Religion / Mythos: Many Christian saints, including the Apostles; Mansur al-Hallaj (10th-century Sufi mystic martyred for his belief that God existed within him).

 

Mediator (Botschafter, Diplomat, Vermittler)

• Film: Dominic Guard in The Go-Between
• Roman: The Ambassadors von Henry James
• Religion / Mythos: Toth, ägyptischer Gott der Weisheit, Vermittler unter den Göttern, die stets seinen Rat erfragen; Genetaska, eine Irokesin, die aufgrund ihrer Fairness und Neutralität so hohes Ansehen genoss, so dass alle Zwistigkeiten ihr vorgetragen wurden; Mitra, vedisch-persischer Gott der Freundschaften, Verträge und Wächter der kosmischen Ordnung, der als Vermittler zwischen Göttern und der Menschheit geachtet wird

 

Mentor (Meister, Berater, Tutor)

• Films (Mentor): Alec Guinness to Mark Hammill in Star Wars; Takashi Shimura to Toshiro Mifune in The Seven Samurai; Yul Brynner to Horst Bucholz in The Magnificent Seven; Bette Davis to Anne Baxter in All About Eve; Paul Newman to Tom Cruise in The Color of Money.
• Film (Teacher): Bette Davis in The Corn Is Green; Sidney Poitier in To Sir with Love; Michael Caine in Educating Rita; Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle.
• TV-Serie: James Gandolfini to Robert Imperioli in The Sopranos.
• Roman: Fagin to Oliver in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Schatten)
• Drama: The Miracle Worker by William Gibson.
• Roman: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (Schatten); Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Schatten).
• Religion / Mythos: Krishna (in Indian scripture, the spiritual mentor of Arjuna); Chiron (in Greek myth, a wise centaur who had extensive knowledge of the healing arts and tutored Asclepius, Theseus, and Achilles); Ninsun (in Sumerian legend, the mother of Gilgamesh who serves as his counselor).

 

Messias (Redeemer, Erlöser)

• Film: Reese Witherspoon and Tobey Maguire in Pleasantville; Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro in The Mission; Julia Roberts in Erin Brokovich; Marcello Mastroianni in The Organizer.
• Religion / Mythos: Mashiach ("the anointed one" in Hebrew, the descendant of König David expected to restore the Jewish kingdom); Jesus Christ ("the anointed one" in Greek, believed by Christians to be the promised redeemer; Adam Kadmon ("Primordial Man," in Jewish Kabbalah, described as the most perfect manifestation of God that humanity could contemplate, later identified with the Messiah); al-Mahdi ("the guided one" in Arabic, awaited descendant of Muhammad who will herald the end of history and restore Islamic purity); Maitreya ("the loving one" in Sanskrit, the fifth and final earthly Buddha who will help all those who have not yet realized enlightenment); Kalki (in Hindu belief, a future reincarnation of Vishnu who will arrive on a white horse to liberate the world from strife); Tang (Chinese messiah who saved mankind from a great drought by sacrificing his body in a mulberry bush, immediately inducing rainfall).

 

Midas / Geizhals

• Film: Bette Davis in The Little Foxes; Michael Douglas in Wall Street; James Dean in Giant; Lionel Barrymore in It's a Wonderful Life.
• Roman: Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and Uriah Heep in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; Silas Marner by George Eliot.
• Drama: The Miser by Moliere
• Religion / Mythos: Midas (a König of Phrygia in Asia Minor who was given the dubious gift of the golden touch by Dionysus); Kukuth (in Albanian lore, the spirit of a deceased miser who cannot find rest).

 

Mönch / Nonne (Unverheiratete/r)

• Film: Claude Laydu in Diary of a Country Priest; Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story; Yi Pan-yong in Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?; Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows Mr. Allison; Loretta Young in Come to the Stable; Lilia Skala in Lilies of the Field
• TV-Serie: Derek Jacobi in Brother Cadfael
• Roman:  Umberto Eco, Der Name der Rose
• Religion / Mythos: Friar Tuck (der mythische mit dem Schwert kämpfende Mönch aus Robin Hood's Merry Men); Nennius (walischer Mönch, von dem allgemein angenommen wird, dass er die Historia Brittonum zusammengetragen hat, die wiederum von Geoffrey of Monmouth und anderen gebraucht wurde, um die Geschichte von König Artur zu rekonstruieren); Bernadette Soubiros (französisches Mädchen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, die berichtete, im Alter von 14 Jahren Visionen der Gottesmutter Maria zu haben)

 

Mutter (Matriarchin, Mutter Natur)

• Film: Irene Dunne in I Remember Mama; Myrna Loy in Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes; Sophia Loren in Two Women; Sally Field in Places in the Heart; Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater; Rosalind Russell in Gypsy (Devouring); Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly Last Summer (Schatten); Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest (Schatten); Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate; Gladys Cooper in Now Voyager (Schatten); Alberta Watson in Spanking the Monkey (Incestuous).
• Drama: Mother Courage by Bertholt Brecht; Medea by Euripedes; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.
• Religion / Mythos: As with Gods, Goddesses, and Mystics, the Mother appears in all religious traditions and myths, usually as the Divine Mother. These are just a few examples: Lakshmi, Durga, Kali (Hinduism); Mary/Miryam (Christianity/Islam); Sarai, Naomi (Judaism); Cybele (fertility goddess of ancient Anatolia, also known as known as the Great Mother); Demeter (Greek myth); Isis (Egyptian myth); Tellus (Roman Mother Earth goddess); Cihuacoatl (Aztec Mother Earth goddess, also patron of birth and of women who die in childbirth).
• Märchen: Mother Goose, Mother Hubbard

 

Mystiker/in (Renunciate, Anchorite, Einsiedler/in)

• Film: Catherine Mouchet in Thér_se; Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves.
• Drama: Agnes of God von John Pielmeyer
• Roman: Lying Awake von Marc Salzman
• Religion / Mythos: Alle großen Traditionen haben erhabene Mystiker hervorgebracht. Hier nur eine kleine repräsentative Auswahl: Teresa von Ávila, Meister Eckhart, William Law (1686-1761) englischer Kleriker, theologischer Autor, Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) deutsche wissenschaftlich gebildete Äbtissin des Benediktiner-Ordens (Christentum); Ba'al Shem Tov, Moses ben Nahman, Abraham Abulafia (Judaismus); Rabi'a, Ibn al-'Arabi, Mansur al-Hallaj (Islam); Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Anandamayi Ma, Ramana Maharshi (Hinduismus); Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Bankei, Pema Chödron (Buddhismus); Chuang Tzu, Wang-pi (Taoismus); Padrinho Sebastio, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa (*1921) Zulu Sangoma (Schamane)

Vernetzer (Botschafter, Herold, Läufer, Journalist, Kommunikator)

• Film: John Boles in A Message to Garcia; Stewart Peterson in Pony Express Rider; Jeff Goldblum in Between the Lines.
• Religion / Mythos: Almost every culture on earth has or had a messenger of the gods who networks between the divine and human realms, including the angel Raphael (Judaism); Gabriel (Christianity); Jibril (Islam); Matarisvan (Vedic India); Eagle, Coyote (American Indian); Iris, Hermes (Greece); Mercury (Rome); Sraosa (Zoroastrianism); Nusku (Assyria); Nirah (Sumeria); Srosh (Persia); Paynal (Aztec); Savali (Samoa); Gou Mang (China); Narada (Java); Gna, Hermod (Norse).

 

Pionier (Forscher, Siedler, Pilger, Erfinder)

• Film: Debbie Reynolds in How the West Was Won; Jean Arthur and Van Heflin in Shane; Judy Garland in The Harvey Girls; Jackie Robinson in The Jackie Robinson Story.
• TV-Serie: Wagon Train, Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie.
• Roman: Lost Horizons by James Hilton; O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.
• Religion / Mythos: Nana-Ula (seafaring pioneer who led his people on a yoage of 2,500 miles from Tahiti to Hawaii over a thousand years ago); Bodhidharma (Buddhist patriarch who carried the teachings from India to China and established the tradition that came to be known as Zen); Hagar (handmaiden of Abraham who brought her son, Ishmael, to the Becca Valley of Arabia and established the Arab people).

 

Dichter/in

• Film: Glenda Jackson in Stevie; Philippe Noiret in Il Postino; Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
• Roman: The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll (Schatten);
• Religion / Mythos: König David (ruler of Israel credited with writing many of the Psalms); Orpheus (great musician and poet of Greek myth, capable of charming wild beasts); Bragi (in Norse myth, the god of eloquence and patron of poets); Finn Mac Cumhail (legendary Irish hero and leader who was also greatly skilled as a poet).

 

Priester (Priesterin, Pastor, Rabbi, Erweckungsprediger)

• Film: Montgomery Clift in I Confess; Karl Malden in On the Waterfront; Don Murray in The Hoodlum Priest; Richard Todd in A Man Called Peter; Richard Burton in Becket
• Roman: Diary of A Country Priest Georges Bernanos
• Drama: Mass Appeal Bill C. Davis; Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot.
• Religion / Mythos: Eleazar (first high priest of Israel); Pythia (priestess of Apollo's temple at Delphi who went into trance and made oracular pronouncements); Apotequil (high priest of the Incan moon god); Hungan (Haitian priest of vodun); Ishkhara (priestess of Ishtar and Babylonian goddess of love); Kokopelli (in Zuni lore, a priest who brings rain to the people); Utnapishtim/Ziusudra (in Babylonian/Sumerian myth, the priest-König of Shurrupak who is warned by the gods of a coming deluge and builds a large ark to preserve human and animal life).

 

Prinz

• Film: Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl; Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve; Joseph Cotten in The Farmer's Daughter; Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Robert Redford in The Way We Were; Anthony Perkins in Phaedra.
• Drama: Biff in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Roman: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
• Märchen: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella
• Religion / Mythos: Rama (the prince of Ayodhya, seventh incarnation of Vishnu, and the hero of the Hindu epic Ramayana); Shotoku (Japanese prince deified as the reincarnation of Siddhartha, the Buddha); Xochipilli (Aztec god of flowers, maize, love, beauty, and song whose name means "Flower Prince"); Beelzebub (originally the patron god of the Philistines and Canaanites whose name meant "Prince Baal," demonized in the Judeo-Christian tradition as the Prince of Darkness).

 

Prostituierte

• Film: Jack Lemmon in The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Save the Tiger, The China Syndrome, Mass Appeal; Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday; Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity; Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.
• Drama: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.
• Religion / Mythos: Ochun (Yoruba Orisha of love, Ehe, and motherhood, who was forced for a time to become a prostitute to feed her children); Temple prostitutes (in ancient Greece, Rome, Asia Minor, and India, women who engaged in public intercourse as a way of sympathertically activating the energy of fertility).

 

Königin (Kaiserin)

• Film: Joan Crawford in Queen Bee; Marlene Dietrich as Catherine the Great in The Scarlet Empress; Geraldine Chaplin in The Three Musketeers; Greta Garbo in Queen Christina; Judi Densch in Shakespeare in Love; Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth.
• Drama: Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare
• Religion / Mythos: Mary (Mother of Jesus later elevated in Catholic tradition to Queen of Heaven); Mab (Queen of the faeries and often a trickster who steals babies, possibly derived from the Welsh Mabb or Gaelic Maeve); Anatu (Mesopotamian queen of the sky); Antiope (in Greek myth, the queen of the Amazons); Marisha-Ten (Japanese queen of heaven); Guinevere (König Artur's queen).
• Märchen: Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs (Schatten).

 

Rebell (Anarchist, Revolutionär, Politisch motivierter Protestler, Nonkonformist, Pirat)

• Film: James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause; Marlon Brando in The Wild One; Kirk Douglas in Spartacus; Sally Field in Norma Rae; Meryl Streep in Silkwood.
• Roman: The Rebel by Albert Camus; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
• Religion / Mythos: Iblis/Lucifer (in Muslim/Christian belief, a rebellious angel who refused to worship Adam or acknowledge the supremacy of God).
• Folklore/Märchen: Jack and the Beanstalk; Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter.

 

Retter

• Film: Sigourney Weaver in Alien III; Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan; Jason Gedrick in Iron Eagle.
• TV-Serie: The Lone Ranger.
• Religion / Mythos: Bidadari (in Javanese myth, a lovely nymph who uses her knowledge of magic to rescue a hero from a dangerous situation and marry him); Lancelot (Knight of the Round Table who rescues Guinevere--with whom he is having an affair--when König Artur threatens to execute her for adultery); Bran (in Welsh lore, a giant who rescued his sister Branwen from enslavement by her Irish husband).

 

Saboteur

• Film: Greta Garbo in Mata Hari; Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate; Woody Harrelson in The People vs. Larry Flynt. Judy Holliday in The Solid Gold Cadillac;
• Drama: Amadeus (Salieri) by Peter Schaffer; The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux.
• Religion / Mythos: Loki (in Norse myth, a Shape-shifter and Trickster who is crafty and malicious, but also heroic); Eris/Discordia (Greek/Roman goddess of discord, said to have caused the Trojan War); Bamapana (Aboriginal hero-trickster who causes discord and misunderstanding); Serpent (in many cultures, a figure who deceives humans, often sabotaging their only chance at immortality).

 

Samariter

• Film: Richard Dreyfuss in Down and Out in Beverly Hills; Gary Cooper in Good Sam; Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier; Liam Neeson in Schindler's List.
• Religion / Mythos: Ninlil (Sumerian goddess of heaven, earth, air, and grain who shows compassion to the unfortunate); Parzifal (Arthurian knight who heals the wound of Anfortas, the Grail King, by compassionately asking about it);

 

Schreiber (Abkopierer, Sekretär/in, Buchhalter – sh. auch Journalist/in)

• Film: Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in All the President's Men; Sally Field in Absence of Malice (Schatten); Kirk Douglas in Ace in the Hole (Schatten); Nicole Kidman in To Die For (Schatten); Holly Hunter in Broadcast News.
• Roman: Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
• Religion / Mythos: Ezra (Hebrew scribe and priest, best known for collecting and editing the books of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, in the fifth century B.C.); Imhotep (in Egyptian myth, an architect, physician, and scribe in the court of the Pharaoh Zoser); Thoth (Egyptian god of wisdom, inventor of writing, and patron of scribes, often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis, holding a scribal tablet and reed pen).

 

Suchende/r (Wandervogel, Vagabund, Nomade)

• Film: Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge; Brad Pitt in Seven Years in Tibet; Peter Weller and Judy Davis in The New Age (Schatten); Ellen Burstyn in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath
• Drama: A Doll's House (Nora) by Henik Ibsen
• Roman: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse; Lost Horizon by James Hilton
• Autobiography. Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie; My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi; Be Here Now by Ram Dass; Longing for Darkness by China Galland
• Religion / Mythos: Arjuna (who questions his role in life in the Bhagavad-Gita); Siddhartha Gautama (before his enlightenment as the Buddha, Siddhartha undertook the classic path of the Seeker).

 

Diener/in (Indentured Diener/in)

• Film: William Powell in My Man Godfrey; Anthony Hopkins in Remains of the Day; Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy; Dirk Bogarde in The Servant (Schatten)
• Roman: The Turn of the Screw (Mrs. Grose) Henry James
• Religion / Mythos: The names of many spiritual masters and teachers often contain a reference to service. The Sanskrit word dasya, for example, means "servant," and appears in the names of modern mystics such as Ram Dass, Bhagavan Das, and Lama Surya Das; Obadiah (Hebrew prophet whose name means "servant of God"); Ganymede (in Greek myth, the young, beautiful boy who was one of Zeus' lovers and cupbearer to the gods); Thialfi (Norse servant of Thor and the messenger of the gods).
• Märchen: Aschenputtel

 

Shape-shifter (Verfluchende/r – sh. auch Trickster)

• Film: Wolfen; Lon Chaney, Jr., in The Wolf Man; Aaron Eckhart in In the Company of Men
• Religion / Mythos: Because most deities or mythological figures who have the ability to shape-shift are also Tricksters, many of them overlap with that archetype: Tezcatlipoca (Aztec god of night who changes shapes and uses his "smoking mirror" to kill his enemies); Estsanatlehi ("Woman who changes," the most powerful Navajo deity, a fertility goddess and shape-shifter associated with transformation and immortality).

 

Sklave

• Film: Djimon Honsou in Amistad; Ossie Davis in Slaves; Russell Crowe in Gladiator; Yvette Mimieux in The Time Machine; Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening in American Beauty; Victor Mature in The Robe; Charlton Heston (Moses) in The Ten Commandments.
• TV-Serie: LeVar Burton in Roots.
• Drama: The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson; Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet.
• Religion / Mythos: Euryclea (in the Odyssey, the slave of Laertes, wet nurse of Odysseus, and the first to recognize the hero when he returned home from the Trojan War); Black Peter (medieval Dutch name for the devil, who was chained and enslaved by Saint Nicholas, who on Dec. 4 made Black Peter drop candy and gifts down chimneys into the waiting shoes of the children); Sisyphus (in Greek myth, he chained the god of death, Thanatos, so the deceased could not enter the underworld, for which he was enslaved for all eternity to roll a boulder up a steep hill, only to have it tumble back down when he reached the top).
• Märchen: The Flying Monkeys in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

 

Geschichtenerzähler/in (Minstrel, Narrator)

• Film: Rod Taylor as Sean O'Casey in Young Cassidy; Laurence Harvey und Karl Boehm in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm; Judy Davis as George Sand in Impromptu; Barbara Bel Geddes in I Remember Mama
• Roman: Lord Jim Joseph Conrad; Beloved by Toni Morrison; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
• Religion / Mythos: Homer (combined history and mythology in the action adventures of the Odyssey and the Iliad); Blaise (Welsh storyteller who in Arthurian legend became Merlin's scribe); Thamyris (Thracian minstrel who won so many contests that he challenged the Muses themselves, and in return for his presumption was struck blind).
• Märchen: Arabian Nights (Tales of Sheherezade)

 

Student/in (Jünger/in, Ergebener, Nachfolger, Lehrling)

• Film: Julie Walters in Educating Rita; Jean Pierre Leaud in The 400 Blows; Matthew Broderick in The Freshman
• Drama: Pygmalion by G.B. Shaw.
• Roman: Tom Brown's School Days Thomas Hughes
• Autobiograpie: The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams.
• Religion / Mythos: Dervisch (Sufi term für den Schüler eines Scheichs); Hunsi (Haitian term for a devotee on any African deity, derived from the culture of Dahomey); Telemachus (student of Mentor, whom Odysseus assigned to teach and care for his son); Medea (devotee of Hecate, Greek goddess of the crossroads and a great sorceress); Ananda (renowned disciple of the Buddha); Peter (leading disciple of Jesus); Abu Bakr (one of the Prophet Muhammad's disciples, called Companions).

 

Lehrer/in (Ausbilder/in – sh. auch Mentor)

• Film: Bette Davis in The Corn Is Green; Sidney Poitier in To Sir with Love; Michael Caine in Educating Rita; Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle; Deborah Kerr in The König und ich; Ian McKellen in Apt Pupil; Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Schatten)
• Drama: The Miracle Worker William Gibson
• Roman: Goodbye, Mr. Chips James Hilton
• Religion / Mythos: Sokrates (classical Greek philosopher who taught, and was accused of corrupting, the youth of Athens); the Fisher König (in Arthurian legend, teacher of Perceval); Nommo (African culture hero and teacher of the Dagon people of Mali, Sudan, and Upper Volta); Chiron (teacher of the mythic Greek heroes Jason and Achilles); Dhanvantari (Hindu deity credited as the teacher of medicine to humanity).

 

Dieb (Schwindler, Trickkünstler, Taschendieb, Einbrecher, Robin Hood)

• Film: James Caan in Thief; Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroiani in Big Deal on Madonna Street; Jean-Paul Belmondo in The Thief of Paris; Sabu in The Thief of Baghdad (1940); Steven Bauer in Thief of Hearts (Schatten); Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; Angelica Huston in The Grifters (Schatten).
• Roman: The Adventures of Robin Hood (various authors).
• Religion / Mythos: Raven (Among Northwestern Indians, a helpful thief who stole the moon and sun from the Sky Chief and placed them in the sky); Prometheus (in Greek myth, hero who stole the sacred fire from Zeus and the gods); Autolycus (grandfather of Odysseus renowned as a thief who stole the cattle of Eurytus); the Good Thief (in the New Testament, one of two men who were crucified with Jesus, repented, and asked for forgiveness).

 

Trickster (Puck, Provokateur)

• Film: Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve; Wilfred Bramble (Grandfather) in A Hard Day's Night; Peter Cook in Bedazzled; Michael Caine, Steve Martin, and Glenne Headley in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
• Drama: The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder.
• Roman: The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike.
• Religion / Mythos: Kaulu (Polynesian trickster god); Blue-Jay (among Pacific Northwest Indians, a trickster who tries to the other animals); Spider Woman (trickster among the Dakota Indian tribes); Seth (ancient Egyptian god of chaos and adversity); Esu (West African god of passage and trickster who guards the home of the gods).
• Märchen / Fabel: Rotkäppchen und der böse Wolf, Der Fuchs und die Trauben, The Gingerbread Man.

 

Vampir

• Film: Bela Lugosi in Dracula; Tom Cruise in Interview with a Vampire.
• Roman: Dracula by Bram Stoker; The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice; "The Vampyre: A Tale" by John Polidori.
• Religion / Mythos: Vlad Tepes, aka Vlad The Impaler (in fifteenth-century Walachia--in modern Romania--a bloodthirsty count who reportedly impaled and beheaded his enemies); Langsoir (Malayan vampire, a woman who died in childbirth and now assaults infants and children).

 

Opfer

• Film: Hillary Swank in Boys Don't Cry; Jodie Foster in The Accused; Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice; Glenn Close in Reversal of Fortune;
• Roman: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert L. Stevenson; Misery by Stephen King.
• Drama: Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
• Religion / Mythos: Isaac (son of Abraham whom God orders Abraham to sacrifice); Heracles (seized by Busiris, mythical König of Egypt who sacrificed all strangers to the gods to avert famine, Heracles avoided being victimized by using his great strength to break his chains and slay Busiris).

 

Jungfrau (sh. auch Unverheiratete/r)

• Film: Sean Connery in The Medicine Man; Kirstin Dunst et al. in The Virgin Suicides; Jennifer Jason Leigh in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
• Religion / Mythos: Parthenos (Greek for "Virgin," an epithet of the goddess Athena, who was the virgin mother of Erichthnonius). Hestia/Vesta (the Greek/Roman virgin goddess of the hearth, and, by extension, domestic life.

 

Visionär (Träumende/r, Prophet/in, Seher/in – sh. auch Führer/in, Alchemist/in)

• Film: Eriq Ebouaney in Lumumba; Peter Finch in Network (Schatten).
• Religion / Mythos: Hebrew Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and others who often chastised powerful leaders while calling the people's attention to their own failings); Muhammad (the final Prophet of Islam, who directed God's message to the Arab people through the Quran); Baha'u'llah (nineteenth-century Iranian prophet who founded the Bahai Faith, spreading his vision of "one universal Cause, one common Faith"); Cassandra (in Greek lore, daughter of the König and queen of Troy, who was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo in an attempt to seduce her; because she refused his advances, he made all her prophecies fall on deaf ears); Zarathustra auch Zoroaster genannt [BW 860] (1.-2. Jtsd. v. Chr.) iranisch-persischer Prophet, Philosoph, Reformator, Stifter des persischen Zoroastrismus (Mazdaismus oder Parsismus)

Krieger/in (Soldat, Verbrechensbekämpfer, Amazone, Mercenary, Soldier of Fortune, Gunslinger, Samurai)

• Film: Gary Cooper in High Noon; John Wayne in The Searchers; Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, Pale Rider, and Unforgiven; Mel Gibson in Road Warrior and Mad Max; Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were (political activist); Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment (battling cancer); Denzel Washington in Glory (Civil War soldier); The Seven Samurai.
• TV-Serie: Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Xena the Warrior Prinzessin.
• Drama: A Soldier's Story by Charles Fuller .
• Roman: In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck (migrant workers)
• Religion / Mythos: Bhima ("the Terrible One") warrior hero of the Mahabharata known for his great strength; the son of the wind god Vayu and a brother of Arjuna, he later became a Hindu warrior god); Oya (woman warrior of Yoruba myth, goddess of fire, wind, thunder, and the river Niger); Andarta (Celtic-Gallic warrior and fertility goddess); Popocatepetl (Aztec warrior who, with his consort, was transformed by the gods into a mountain after they both died of grief for each other); Brunhilde (female warrior, one of the Valkyries, in the German epic Niebelungenlied); Alyosha Popovitch (epic hero and mighty warrior of Russian folklore); Durga (warrior manifestation of the Hindu Mother goddess).

 

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Bearbeiten ↓ Zitate zum Thema Archetypen / Archetypes Bearbeiten ↓ Literatur Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Michael, Mensch sein, Band 1, Edition Borg, Januar 1998 ↑ Bearbeiten ↓ Literatur (engl.) Chelsa Quinn Yarbro, Messages from Michael, Writers.com, [1990], Neuauflage März 2005 Helen Fisher, Ph.D. (*1945) Canadian-American research professor in biological anthropology, human behavior researcher, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University, expert on romantic love, chief scientific adviser to Chemistry.com, Why Him? Why Her? – Finding Real Love by Understanding Your Personality Type, Henry Holt, first edition 20. January 2009 56 questions inquire what personality type the reader is: Builders like routine and orderliness. Negotiators easily imagine both good and bad things happening. Directors debate anyone. Explorers go for the unpredictable. William Strauss and Neil Howe, statisticians, authors of Generations (1991) The Fourth Turning, FourthTurning.com, Broadway Books, reprint September 1997 Major events in American history since the pilgrims landed show underlying 88-year cycles repeating every four generations in history. The current cycle will end around 2012 and a new one will start. Generations consist of four different archetypes: Idealistic Prophet (maker), Reactive Nomad (rebel), Civic Heros (mediator / consumer), Adaptive Artist (transformer) ↑ Bearbeiten ↓ Externe Weblinks Wikipedia-Einträge Archetyp ↑ Bearbeiten ↓ Externe Weblinks (engl.) Wikipedia entries Archetype A Gallery of Archetypes, Caroline Myss, Library ↑ Bearbeiten ↓ Audio- und Videolinks ↑ Bearbeiten ↓ Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) Audio interview with Dr. Stanislav Grof, presented by free audio program Living Dialogues, Personallifemedia.com, host Duncan Campbell, aired March 2009 Barack Obama and Our 21st Century Collective Heroes' Journey, part 1 of 2, episode 83, 28:19 minutes duration Barack Obama and Our 21st Century Collective Heroes' Journey, part 2 of 2, episode 84, 33:02 minutes duration Barack Obama, a self-reflective president, has travelled the hero's journey. Consciousness researcher Grof analyses Obama's preparation and initiation to play a role as a world leader. Obama struggled for a long time to gain a sense of belonging. He had an epiphany in Kenya and when listening to a sermon he was struck by the phrase The Audacity of Hope which inspired him to write a book with the same title published in 2006. In the process of writing Obama was called by distant voices. First he was reluctant to listen to them. They ebbed and returned later to call him again. Then he answered the call. ↑ Bearbeiten ↓ Audio- und Videolinks (engl.) – Caroline Myss Audio presentation (animated) on "Divine Family" archetypes by Caroline Myss Ph.D., US American spiritual teacher, YouTube film, posted by ALMITRAOCEAN, excerpted from the Audio Series The Language of Archetypes. Discover the Forces That Shape Your Destiny, Sounds True, Inc., unabridged edition, 1. January 2006 The eight major archetypal families The Four Survival Archetypes – child, prostitute, victim, saboteur The Royal Family – queen, king, damsel, knight, and others The Shadow Family – thief, trickster, addict, and others The Divine Family – celibate, missionary, guru/disciple, nun/monk, shaman/medicineman THE MISSIONARY (spiritual networker for God) 10:48 minutes duration, posted 14. April 2011 THE NUN/MONK (spreading grace on behalf of the rest of humanity, removed from the world) 7:54 minutes duration, posted 11. April 2011 THE GURU/DISCIPLE (Idol worshipers, devotees, surrounded by the light) 6:10 minutes duration, posted 15. April 2011 THE SHAMAN/MEDICINE MAN (ritualistic nature, structuring the sacred, healing power routing) 5:01 minutes duration, posted 11. April 2011 THE CELIBATE (partnership with God on a soul level) 9:47 minutes duration, posted 12. April 2011 I ? ( ) minutes duration, posted 11. April 2011 I ? ( ) minutes duration, posted 11. April 2011 ↑

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