TelexExternal LinkInternal LinkInventory Cache
Archetypes
This nOde last updated May 27th, 2003 and is permanently morphing...
(5 K'an (Corn) / 12 Zip - 44/260 - 12.19.10.5.4)

archetype (är´kî-tìp´) noun
1. An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: "'Frankenstein' . . . 'Dracula' . . . 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' . . . the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories" (New York Times).
2. An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur.
[Latin archetypum, from Greek arkhetupon, from neuter of arkhetupos, original : arkhe-, arkhi-, archi- + tupos, model, stamp.]
- ar´chetyp´al (-tì´pel) or ar´chetyp´ic (-tîp´îk) or ar´chetyp´ical adjective
- ar´chetyp´ically adverb

• Collective Uncsonscious
• Avatars

• wise old man or woman
• eternal mother
• magical child
• the trickster
• the tree
• mandalas

• lecture _Angels, Aliens & Archetypes_ MP3 (48k) - (41:30) by Terence McKenna
• downtempo track _Archetypes_ MP3 (192k) by Drax off of _Red_ on Trope #006 (1994)
• IDM techno track _Archetype Arcadian_ MP3 (192k) by Link off of _Theory Of Evolution_ compilation CD on Warp #029 (1995)
• book  - _Green Man: The Archetype of our Oneness with the Earth_ by William Anderson

"archetypes have their own initiative and their own specific energy... archetypes create myths, religions, and philosophies that influence and characterize whole nations and epochs of history." - Carl Jung

In its rituals, the West African tradition has learned to plug people directly into the realm of archetypes, archetypes which are strengthened by interfacing with the "lower" traits of ordinary human personalities. One clue to the nature of this interchange lies in the fact that possession often seems to be triggered by the master drummer playing particular patterns within the complex web of polyrhythmic drumming. Haitians calls these jarring, rhythmically "dissonant" patterns cassés (or "breaks," a phrase used in a similar musical sense in today's hip-hop culture). Possession may result from the cognitive dissonance of the cassé, the alien beat that enters from another plane and shakes up up the rhythms of the everyday. In any case, possession is a magnificently strange act, a radically immanent embracing of spiritual being that is both magical (a worldly invocation of spirits) and religious (as a selfless release to godhead).  Possession by the orisha concretizes spirit and ties it to the cycle of ancestors and blood and the rhythms of sex and family.

- Erik Davis - _Trickster At The Crossroads_

TelexExternal LinkInternal LinkInventory Cache