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(Note: I made this in GIMP 2.0. I know next to NOTHING about GIMP 2.0 beyond what's needed to crop and resize photos of my artwork. Please be kind--when it comes to this sort of digital...uh...manipulation, I don't know a damned thing. If you decide to make a better version, at least link to this so people have context for what the hell this is all about.)

Okay, so I spent a good bit of this evening chewing my way through Jungian psychology in conjunction with writing the Archetypal Model of Totemism chapter for my next book, Neopagan Totemism, the manuscript of which is due to be turned in to Llewellyn Publications by October 14. Part of the chapter involves detangling Jung's original conception of what archetypes are from all the New Age....uh...."creative licensure" with his work. (Needless to say, a lot of the "spiritual" interpretations of Jung are a far cry from what the man was originally trying to explain.)

While I was discussing some of Jung's original archetypes, I was thinking about how my mental image of the Wise Old Man is the Old Man from the original Legend of Zelda, who prepares Link for the tough journey ahead with a sword, and then other iterations of the same archetype that provide him with better swords, advice, and occasionally the opportunity to bust down a door for no good reason.

And then I was thinking about Jung as the Wise Old Man, and how I could have used his help trying to decipher the brain-hurty New Age misappropriations of archetypes and such...and...well...this had to happen. Really.

(If you're wondering, the book is The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, which does what it says on the tin.)

(Background image from here: [link] Picture of Jung from here: [link] Picture of book from here; [link])

ETA: Also, relevant Therioshamanism post: [link] - includes some of the thinky-thoughts leading up to this abomination.
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~Noble-Gryphon Oct 10, 2011  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Gimp is way cool there is a book out there about how to use gimp tools you might check it out on amazon or something. I don't know too much about gimp my bf knows more he has did a few pics on deviant art. Nice job on the first try keep it up :)

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*lupagreenwolf Oct 10, 2011
Thank you :) I don't really have time to learn to use it better other than through quirky little side projects like this, but they do help.

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~Noble-Gryphon Oct 12, 2011  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
yeah no prob your welcome

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~flamepointiger Oct 9, 2011  Professional General Artist
You know posting things like this make it reeaaaly hard to wait for your new book to come out? ;)

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*lupagreenwolf Oct 9, 2011
I do try ;)

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[link] - handmade ritual tools, totemic headdresses & my pagan and shamanic books!

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~foxy-yazoo Oct 9, 2011
OMFG so much win! It works so well! XD Especially since you can sort of see a lot of fantasy as a metaphor for going into one's unconscious and dealing with what's there... ah this makes me so happy XD

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*lupagreenwolf Oct 9, 2011
*grin* Thanks! Not to mention the Hero's Journey and whatnot.

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[link] - handmade ritual tools, totemic headdresses & my pagan and shamanic books!

My Facebook: [link]

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