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Russian/ European Archetypes

Russian/ European Archetypes. By: Alycia Griswell Deidra Littles. The Knight.

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Russian/ European Archetypes

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  1. Russian/ European Archetypes By: Alycia Griswell Deidra Littles

  2. The Knight • Archetype Definition: Knights were the great warriors that wear body armor on horseback. The warriors of Europe were the protectors of the king. They were very rich, trained, and they had armor, weapons, and horses to do their job. They were among the toughest warriors in history to kill because of their armor. These knights were trained their entire life. They were the tanks of the ancient world. They were also expected to act with a moral manner. The knights of the Round Table were men of courage, honor, dignity, courtesy, and nobleness. They were to protect the damsels, fight for the kings, and partake in dangerous quests.

  3. The Dwarf • Archetype Definition: A being in a form of a small, often misshapen and ugly man. Usually possessing magical powers. The Seven Dwarfs lived in the forest away from humans that would judge them because of how they looked. They didn’t have magical powers but each other them was based off of a strong personality.

  4. The Fairy • Archetype Definition: One of a class of supernatural being, generally conceived as having a diminutive human form and possessing magical powers. Tinker Bell , born from a baby’s first laugh, she was given the power of tinkering (fixing and creating) at birth, but it was her hob to figure our her calling/ power.

  5. The Angel • Archetype Definition: they are referred to as guardians or messengers. They are living beings of Light and messengers of Divine. They intervene in times of great need. In polish folklore the angel of death has an appearance similar to the traditional Grimm Reaper, but instead of wearing a black cloak Death wears a white cloak. Also because of grammar Death is a woman. She is seen as an old skeletal woman.

  6. The Quest • Archetype Defintion: This motif describes the search for someone or some talisman which, when found and brought back, will restore fertility to a wasted land, the desolation of which is mirrored by a leader's illness and disability. A hobbit, a wizard, and thirteen dwarfs set of on a quest to reclaim their lost dwarf kingdom from the dragon. Their goal is to get to the Lonely Mountain.

  7. The Monster • Archetype Definition: an imaginary beast, person, animal, or plant marked with structural deformity. Lou Carcolh was a French sea monster. He was a serpent, mollusk, and hermit crab shell.

  8. Fertility Goddess • Archetype Definition: is a goddess or god in mythology associated with fertility pregnancy and birth. Artemis hunts wild animals, was an olympian, and a virgin, daughter of Leto and Zeus, and twin of Apollo, also goddess of wilderness.

  9. The Shadow • Archetype Definition: the shadow represents the energy of the dark side, the unexpressed, unrealized, or rejected aspects of something. The wolf reminds man to their domestication and their inner struggle with it. The wolf became also an image of remaining wild. In Jungian sense became men’s shadow of undesired and unwanted.

  10. The Warrior • Archetype Definition: represents physical strength, the ability to protect, defend, and fight for one’s rights. They are linked to invincibility and loyalty. The Vikings were the terror of Europe. They were the most feared warriors in the ancient world. The terrorized Europe with their raids. They were infamous in battle and used weapons that fit their stature. They were big and angry. They used axes, swords, and spears that were expertly made in the conquering of cities. Their religion was all about war and they believed that if you died in battle then you will fight in a never ending battle in the after life. On the other hand though, they were incredible traders and they also brought a lot of good to Europe.

  11. The Polymath (The Renaissance Man) • Archetype Definition: is a person whose expertise spans a significant number off different subject areas; such a person is known to draw on complex bodies is known knowledge to solve specific problems. Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

  12. The Wizard • Archetype Definition: often shows an extent knowledge of the world they live in and uses this information to search and solve problems that others cannot. Gandalf The Grey was a very powerful wizard but he chose to use his vast knowledge of the world before magic. He was often thought of as a teacher or mentor, teaching things that most others would not understand.

  13. The Phrophet • Archetype Definition: is born in a High, enters young adulthood in an Awakening, midlife in an Unraveling, and elderhood in a Crisis. Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame) is the famous prophet from the 16th century. He is noted for having "predicted" the French Revolution, Napoleon, Adolph Hitler, the atomic bomb, 9-11 atrocity, JFK and RFK Assassinations, and just about everything else that has happened since the time of his predictions.

  14. The Damsel – in – Distress • Archetype Definition: a maiden , org. one of gentle or noble birth. Rapunzel was born to a man and woman that wanted selfishly and gave their child to the evil witch. The witch locked Rapunzel away from the world.

  15. The Wolf Archetype Definition: negative force, but they could possess a positive side as well. The negative side prepares origin of disease and the positive side is the cure. There was a case about a girl who thought she was a wolf and went into the forest and tried to eat two kids. One of the children got away and the town came to kill the girl and when they found her that did.

  16. The Seasons • Archetype Definition: • Spring: Rebirth • Summer: Life • Winter: Without life/ death Persephone was kidnapped by Hades and brought to the Underworld. Demeter was grieving over her daughter and this brought a perpeticual winter. Hades eventually was persuaded to release Persephone for one half of every year, those became the spring and summer seasons. The half year Persephone has to spend with Hades was the winter season.

  17. Cite Page http://www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/page/Werewolf http://www.lifeinitaly.com/heritage/folklore.asp http://werewolves.monstrous.com/the_gandillon_family.htm http://voices.yahoo.com/shades-shadow-symbolism-jm-barries-peter-pan-202533.html?cat=38 http://www.kingarthursknights.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone_in_popular_culture http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/userstory11918-legend-of-the-four-seasons.html

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