Mythology & Folklore

Ancient myths, legends, and folk traditions from around the world.

22 terms

A universal, primordial pattern or image residing in the collective unconscious, expressing itself through myths, dreams...

A universal narrative pattern identified by Joseph Campbell in which a hero ventures from the ordinary world into a real...

A spiritual practitioner who enters altered states of consciousness to interact with the spirit world for the purposes o...

Alchemy: a philosophical and protoscientific tradition aimed at transforming base metals into gold, producing an elixir ...

Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited layer of the unconscious mind containing universal archetypes, symbols, and p...

Creation Myth: a culture's narrative account of how the world, the cosmos, and humanity came into being. Found in essent...

The most prestigious oracle of the ancient Greek world, where the Pythia priestess entered a trance state to deliver pro...

A recurring archetypal figure in world mythology who breaks rules, disrupts order, and challenges convention through cle...

A practitioner of magic, herbalism, and spiritual arts, appearing across cultures as a figure of power — both feared and...

Mythical creatures are non-existent animals — dragons, phoenixes, unicorns, griffins, basilisks, kitsune, the thunderbir...

Ancestral wisdom is the body of knowledge, spiritual practice, and life-experience held within family and cultural linea...

Anima and Animus are Jungian archetypes representing the contrasexual element in the unconscious psyche — the anima is t...

The Persona Archetype is the social mask an individual constructs and presents to the outside world — a functional inter...

Shadow Archetype: the unconscious dimension of the psyche containing traits, impulses, and qualities the conscious ego h...

The Mother Archetype is a structural pattern in Carl Jung's analytical psychology — a universal image stored in the coll...

Hermeticism is a philosophical and proto-scientific tradition rooted in the Corpus Hermeticum, a collection of Greek tex...

'As Above, So Below' is the central axiom of Hermeticism, drawn from the Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina). It asserts ...

Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical tradition concerned with the hidden structure of divinity, the cosmos, and the human soul....

Druids were the priestly and intellectual class of pre-Roman Celtic societies in Gaul, Britain, and Ireland — responsibl...

Wicca is a modern Pagan religion founded in England by Gerald Gardner, who introduced it publicly with his 1954 book *Wi...

Paganism is an umbrella term for modern polytheistic and nature-based religions that sit outside the Abrahamic tradition...

Norse Mythology is the pre-Christian religious and cosmological tradition of the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples, cent...