Note: Myth prototype

Jung believes that people are born with an instinctive understanding of specific prototypes. The so-called prototype is a model by which people can understand their own experiences and deal with arduous and even confusing tasks in life. Another theory is externalization theory: fairy tales spread with human migration. The third theory holds that no matter where we live, human beings have the same needs, so the specific factors that appear repeatedly in different fairy tales are bound to help people deal with the problems they encounter in life.

1. Hero-World Myth

The prototype of a hero can be seen in almost all cultures, so it can be regarded as a world myth. No matter how a culture views its existence or its special needs for survival, heroic stories are a necessity.

2. The power of language

Another recurring archetype in myth is some special words. The Gospel of John begins with "there was language before everything existed". One explanation for believing in the importance of language is that men are jealous of women's fertility. In the summary of myths, words spoken can have the power of accidental injury.

3. The Magic of Numbers

The belief that language has power is closely related to the magic of numbers. Humans have long discovered that numbers are not only the basic elements of the world, but also the design of the universe.

4. The myth of the circle

The garden is a prototype that deeply affects our lives. Because the garden is a line without defects, which closes an independent space without a starting point and an ending point, people use it to symbolize wholeness, integrity and eternity.

Step 5 travel

For the meaning of existence, an important prototype in western mythology puts forward a different concept from prototype. Difficult journey is another way to describe the tortuous journey of life. As a journey, life has a purpose and an end, not just a series of random events that are not related to each other.

6. Eden

The myth about the golden age has a long history in the west. Everything in the golden age was better than it is now. The prototype of the golden age comes from the description of Eden in the Bible. The Garden of Eden was once the home of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were expelled from their homes because they ate the forbidden fruit of the knowledge tree.

The Hebrew Bible tells an opposite story about the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were expelled from their homes, but God needed to give Abraham and their descendants a fertile field flowing with milk and honey, namely Canaan. The golden age has not yet arrived, but it will come.

7. God of human language

Greek gods, as prototypes, are endowed with mortal shapes in literary works and sculptures, but the reminders are bigger than ordinary people. When it comes to the humanization of their gods, the Greeks actually mythologized themselves.