| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Water | mysterious |
| Sun | death or era of setting; life or beginning of era |
| Black(darkness) | chaos,mystery,death,evil |
| White(light) | purity,innocent,good,truth |
| red | blood,sacrafice,violent passion,disorder |
| green | growth,hope,fertility,newness |
| blue | truth,spiritual purity,kingly,religious |
| yellow | new era |
| three | light,spiritual unity,(male) |
| four | life cycle,circular,four elements,female |
| seven | union of 3 and 4;completion,perfect order |
| garden | paradise,innocence,fertility |
| desert | death,hopeless,barren,spiritually dead |
| ship | mankind's voyage through time |
| forest | mysterious,dark-side,sensual,evil |
| house | symbolizes the person; description of character |
| characters room | elements of characters personality |
| circle | wholeness,unity |
| wind(breath) | inspiration,spirit |
| fire | destruction,lust,purification,judgement |
| serpent | evil,corruption,sensuality,wisdom,destruction |
| dove | faithful,good,pure,innocent,peace |
| crow | unfaithful,evil,rebellious |
| reptiles/bugs | usually associated with evil,esp.magic |
| owl | wise,but associated with evil more than good(prey) |
| Spring,dawn,birth: | defeat of dark powers,revival and ressurection of hope/good;romance associated with this season. |
| Summer | triumphant,marriage;Paradise,peace,height of power |
| Autumn | sunset: death,end of an era,sacrafice,tragedy,fall of men |
| Winter | dark,chaos,defeat,barren,cold |
| Wise Old Man | knowledge,insight,wise,clever,will always appear when the hero is hopeless |
| Holy Fool/Jester | foolish,sees higher truths |
| The Shadow | appears with and is the exact opposite of another |
| The Good Mother | life,birth,warmth,protection,fertile |
| The Terrible Mother | witch,sorceress,siren,whore |
| The Soul Mate | "beautiful Lady",holy,inspiration,spiritual |
| The Temptress | beautiful woman who bewitches men and then lures them to their destruction |
| Savior/Deliverer | undertakes a journey(physical/mental) in which he performs impossible tasks and overcomes tremendous obstacles in order to save the kingdom and marry the princess |
| Initiation Hero | goes through ordeals and passes from ignorance and immaturity to social and spiritual adulthood |
| Sacrifice Scapegoat | Hero must sacrifice or be sacrificed for the sins of the people in order that the family/community/nation/world might live. In dying, the Hero restores the land of fruitfulness |
| Creation | how the Cosmos, Nature, Man were brought to existence |
| Immortality | Return to Paradise or experience endless death and regeneration |
| Quest | search; growth and discovery;reaching beyond our means |
| Rebirth | leaving one stage of life and entering another |
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