The cave people needed the fire at the mouth of the cave to keep out the bear and sabre toothed tiger but also all the fearful things so much more terrifying and unknowable than everyday reality.
Archetypes
| It is composed of all the things which make up myth, fairy stories and tales of superheroes. These entities, the hero, the wise woman, emperor, devil, wicked stepmother and all the others he called archetypes. | ||
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The cave people needed the fire at the mouth of the cave to keep out the bear and sabre toothed tiger but also all the fearful things so much more terrifying and unknowable than everyday reality. |
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| As the life style of populations change, from cave dweller to farmer to city dweller and as religious belief changes so to do the surface appearance and names of the archetypes. But they are still there. Humans need myth. When technology and culture changed so people looked for, and found, new myths. | Archetypes |