I absolutely loved this post. Very empowering. I just got down my old copy of Jean Shinoda’s “Goddesses in Everywoman”. I had forgotten how strengthening studying mythology and archetypes could be. Thank you for reminding of that.
William! I just posted this link and one from your Late Thoughts in Winter in a reply to Mara on my last episode. She's also talking about the Jungian shadow, and I had your episode saved as a draft for a future post.
I appreciate being able to continue the conversation as an exploration of things we're both trying to understand. I hope that my comments are seen in that light.
You write, "It is fashionable these days to think that a concept so “toxic masculine” as a king could only have come from Western culture, aka white supremacy." But then you show that the concept of supremacy isn't exclusive to whites. Does that make it not toxic? In trying to differentiate between tonic, I've been asking myself what toxic really means. What's the poison that tonic heals? I think it's the concept of supremacy, superiority, domination, competition.
I wondered if 'archetype' had a common root to archon, the Greek word for rulers that hierarchy derives from. The Merriam-Webster says: Archetype comes from the Greek verb archein ("to begin" or "to rule") and the noun typos ("type"). So it's the firstborn, in primogeniture, to whom the right to rule was passed down.
I've stopped using the term matriarchy because it has the same concept of supremacy but with women as the rulers. The word matrix, however, comes from matri- and is a network, not a pyramid.
How can the King put everything in order with everything outside being chaos? Where do women fit if even fertility has become part of the King archetype?
Just some thoughts but I know our hearts are in the same place on this, so I'm just thinking aloud with you as a reality check. Your thoughts?
I absolutely loved this post. Very empowering. I just got down my old copy of Jean Shinoda’s “Goddesses in Everywoman”. I had forgotten how strengthening studying mythology and archetypes could be. Thank you for reminding of that.
William! I just posted this link and one from your Late Thoughts in Winter in a reply to Mara on my last episode. She's also talking about the Jungian shadow, and I had your episode saved as a draft for a future post.
I appreciate being able to continue the conversation as an exploration of things we're both trying to understand. I hope that my comments are seen in that light.
You write, "It is fashionable these days to think that a concept so “toxic masculine” as a king could only have come from Western culture, aka white supremacy." But then you show that the concept of supremacy isn't exclusive to whites. Does that make it not toxic? In trying to differentiate between tonic, I've been asking myself what toxic really means. What's the poison that tonic heals? I think it's the concept of supremacy, superiority, domination, competition.
I wondered if 'archetype' had a common root to archon, the Greek word for rulers that hierarchy derives from. The Merriam-Webster says: Archetype comes from the Greek verb archein ("to begin" or "to rule") and the noun typos ("type"). So it's the firstborn, in primogeniture, to whom the right to rule was passed down.
I've stopped using the term matriarchy because it has the same concept of supremacy but with women as the rulers. The word matrix, however, comes from matri- and is a network, not a pyramid.
How can the King put everything in order with everything outside being chaos? Where do women fit if even fertility has become part of the King archetype?
Just some thoughts but I know our hearts are in the same place on this, so I'm just thinking aloud with you as a reality check. Your thoughts?
Unfortunately, there are too many Americans willing to bow down and do the bidding of their commander-in-chief.