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[mutantcorp]

Has been contemplating the history of human myth and the creation of Gods throughout history. Recently while visiting the anchient city of Delphi Greece where oracle resides I was introduced to a statue of a naked young man. He had been the lover of an emperor and dround while swimming. In pain the Emperor (a worldly representation of a God, much

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[abelincoln1864]

Been reading a bit of Jung, who theorizes all gods come out of the archetypes in the collective unconscious. (Gods = manufactured symbols to represent real unconscious processes and archetypes in the human psyche.)

So a 'god' like you describe, theoretically, wouldn't 'take.' He would not speak to anything real in our unconscious, as there's no pre-made 'slot' for him in our psyches, like there is for the syzygy, the divine marriage, the divine mother and father archetypes, the anima, etc... which are what are usually named-and renamed as 'gods' in the mythology of every culture through history.

This guy would probably be a dead idol, a nothing, since he symbolically represents nothing to man.