| Term | Definition |
|---|
| myth | a story that explains aspects of the natural world and also includes supernatural beings, ancestors, and heroes |
| archetype | a recurring event, character, or pattern in a work of literature existing universally and instinctively in the collective unconscious |
| golden age | good feelings, no worries, warmth, or happier existence |
| loss of innocence | learning something, something that you can't unknow |
| god-teacher | link between "heaven" and man, helps people feel assured that their human activities stem from divine instruction |
| god-teacher | willing to risk life for mankind, cares about man, unites, gives man a gift, (double sided) real gift is man's free will, makes man "god" in his universe |
| hero archetype | weird birth, goes on quest, posses special talent, has to prove themselves again and again, makes up for something in the past |
| creation archetype | the world begins from nothing, man is created from earth, animals are created first, good and evil are created, man is imperfect |
| abyss | the lowest point; the darkest moment; the bleakest time |
| the return | when the hero reaches home and the community is transformed somehow |
| transformation | the point in a journey where it's clear the hero is no longer the same |
| tests and challenges | the ways in which the hero must prove herself/ himself |
| threshold | the point of crossing from a known world to an unknown world |
| aids/ help | characters/ people that can give information, assist with tasks, grant wishes, move the hero forward, etc... |
| the call | the reason for the journey, initially |
| threshold guardian | the hero's conscience, or a warning, or encouragement upon entering the journey |
| iron | symbolic archetype for winter |
| silver | symbolic archetype for summer |
| bronze | symbolic archetype for fall |
| gold | symbolic archetype for spring |
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