The Silver Tigers
By: Chanquisa Banks,Diamond Cuffe,Chan'te Simmons
The Sea God
•Sea God: Is the archetype
covering the domain of emotion
and instinct.
•Hawaiian culture is an adaption
of the Polynesians migrating.
Coming from various islands
throughout Oceania makes
Hawaiian mythology rich and
complex.
The Volcano
The Volcano: Is described as giants
living or imprisoned deep within a
mountain.
On the Island of Hawaii it is said that
just before an eruption is about to
occur that the volcano goddess Pele
stamps her feet in Kilauea. One of the
ancient legends has it that an old
woman is seen just before an
eruption. Hence the saying, “ never
abuse an old woman...she might be
Pele.
The Sea Monster
A bellowing water monster from Aboriginal
legend, believed to bring diseases. It lives
at the bottom of the water holes, swamps,
lakes and rivers of the Australian outback.
The creature is roughly the size of a calf
and requires calm water to live in. Unless
its food sources are interfered with, the
Bunyip usually leaves human beings alone.
However, if necessary it has the strength to
pull a person down into the water and
drown him. The name comes from an
Aboriginal word meaning "devil" or "spirit".
The Sea Monster: The oldest myth for
good and evil.
The Mermaid
A female divinity of creation in the religion
of the Australian Karadjeri. She created all
things and all creatures.
The Mermaid: Mermaids have captured the
hearts and imaginations of men and
women the world over. This archetype is
spontaneously in every single culture in the
world.
The Earth Mother
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This archetype touch the collective
consciousness and in the temple days the
ladies are actually not virgin but they
consider themselves as virgin because
nobody can control them, they are in
control.
The Australian natives call her, Mother
Eingana, the world-creator, the birth
mother, maker of all water, land, animals,
and kangaroos. This huge snake goddess
still lives, they say, in the Dreamtime, rising
up occasionally to create yet more life
The Navigator
The divine trinity of north Australian
mythology, Djanggawuls was made up of
two sisters and a brother who came to
Earth via Beralku, the island of the dead,
and gave the landscape its shape and
vegetation.
The Navigator: To delight in.
The Witch Doctor
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The Wurrando is a witch doctor in Australia
a culture hero with many folklore tales of
his wanderings.
The Witch Doctor: A magician credited with
powers of healing, divination, and
protection against the magic of others.
The Journey
The Djunkgao sisters named on their
travels the clan countries and animals, and
made totem wells with their yam sticks.
They lost their totems to the men and
became ordinary women when the younger
sister was incestuously raped. The sisters
are associated with the rainy season floods
and the movements of the ocean.
The Journey: An Hero who travels place to
place to experience new things.
The Dream Hut
It is the remote period in time in which the
ancestral spirits of aboriginal tribes walked
the earth. These ancestors are believed to
have returned to their abode underground.
The Dream Hut:: Ankojaria the Dreaming
hero who first emerged from the ground to
create the world. His myth belonged to a
small band of Aranda men, known as the
Ngala-Mbitjana people. They were heirs to
Ankotarinja's exploits at the time of the
Dreaming, performing his ceremonies and
initiating their young Iliara into his totemic
lodge.
The Musician
Banajatia an Aboriginal creator deity
god in Australia.
The Musician: The feeling of o mercy it
helps you relief stress and pain. If
music be the food of love, play on.
The Star-Gazer
The legend goes that Gnowee once lived
on the earth at a time when the sky was
always dark and people walked around
carrying torches in order to see. One day
while Gnowee was out gathering yams, her
baby son wandered off. She set out to
search for him, carrying a huge torch, but
never found him. To this day she still
climbs the sky daily, carrying her torch,
trying to find her son.
The Star-Grazer: Someone indifferent to
the busy world.
The Animal
One of the ancestral snakes of the
Binbinga people of northern
Australia, Bobbi-Bobbi once sent a
number of flying foxes for men to
eat, but these bats escaped. So the
snake, underground, watching, threw
one of his ribs up, where the men on
the ground received it and, using it
as a boomerang, slew the bats and
cooked them. Later they used the
boomerang to make a hole in the
sky, and Bobbi-Bobbi, angered, took
back his rib, dragging down into his
mouth two young men who had tried
to hold onto the boomerang.
The Animal: a primitive generalized
plan of structure deduced from the
characters of a natural group
Death
The name of the songs sung by the Buin
people (Australia) as laments for the dead.
The words are the mourning exclamations
and cries of the relatives of the deceased
at the time of cremation.
Death: birth, death, separation from
parents, initiation, marriage, the union of
opposites
The Daugther
Djanggawul sisters/daughters of the
sun, these Australian goddesses
unceasingly brought forth living
creatures from their endlessly pregnant
bodies. Their long vulvas broke off piece
by piece with these births, producing the
world's first sacred artifacts.
Daughter: Perfectly. Imperfect. Meets
needs, doesn't fix everything and trys to
teach her to not make the same
mistakes.
The Son
Ngariman and his relatives killed the two
brothers with spears, but the enraged
Dilga, their mother, and the earth goddess,
caused her milk to flow underground to the
place of the murder, where it revived the
victims and drowned the killers.
Bagadjimbiri were reborn, but after some
time decided to pass away, their bodies
turning into water snakes and their spirits
rising into the sky as great clouds
The Son: Is usually the first of the boyhood
archetypes to develop.
Citation
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