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.
Being archetype, not characters, they are unbound by any one role-set, and much like the Everyone aspect, this causes a lot of emotional turmoil: this time about sex, gender, and social roles. In real society, it's generally conceived that certain roles above are not to be mixed, yet the God and Goddess necessitate the ability to mix all of these concepts at once. Furthermore, some details are realistically impossible, such as the God being his own Father.
Yet, as the representation of every man and every woman, and also that of each stage of life, each mood and experience that man and woman respectively face, they manage to bend these laws of realism and reasonability*.
They are why Freud was so confused.
*Yes, I made up a word. I don't care I don't care I don't I don't I don't. I told you this was going to break rules.
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