Saturday, January 02, 2010

Just below the Everyone aspect of archetype (the sweeping generality that is human consciousness) are the gender deities of old religious myth (the social and physical experience of being human) -- the God and Goddess who represent humanity in how we live, breed, and couple into a sort of buddy-system. Like the Everyone aspect, the God and Goddess are generally "human-ish," but void of specific personalities.

They represent every female and every male -- mother and father, sister and brother, parent and child, strangers, lovers, friends, etc. Their relationship is transcendental because it is so incredibly dynamic and all-consuming. The God and Goddess really are everything to eachother, because they are everything, and share every possible gender-mixed relationship possible, concurrently.
As mentioned before, I live in a world of archetype -- sweeping generalizations of human personality, these are like blank templates for characters rather than characters in their own rite. They theme our mythos and our expectations of human behavior, and therefore live through us.

First off, these are only loosely meant to be seen as individuals, as their cookie-cutter shapes are customized to all sorts of different individual characters. However, they deserve a similar sense of reverence and responsibility as real human beings, because they are a fundamental filter to how we view real human beings, and furthermore, they have been created and are in some sense dependent upon us.

They are our reflections and our windows. If we do not care enough to keep these panes of perception clean and clear, we will be blind.