9 Evil Archetypes

Ahriman - Stupidity personified; willful ignorance and anti-intellectualism; blind adherence to old/established habits and ways of doing things; perhaps fueled by the unconscious desire to regress to a simpler or more primitive form of life; a corruption of the Preserver/Maintainer archetype.

Lucifer - Hubris personified; intellectual vanity; the extreme of intellectualism without spirituality; deification of the mundane human ego; Promethean archetype taken to the extreme.

Typhon - The corruption of the masculine archetype; raw, blind rage; wanton destruction for the sake of destruction; manifests as destructive monsters in many ancient mythologies; psychopathy; lawlessness.

Moloch - Power for the sake of power; can manifest in the people as the blind worship of political power and authoritarianism.

Loki - Corruption of human mental aptitudes for the sake of "winning" in the moment by way of tricking or cheating others; blind tricksterism; the patron demon archetype of grifters, thieves, conmen, compulsive gamblers, and pathological pranksters.

Thanatos - the championing of death over life; extreme austerity and self-mortification; self-destruction; humorlessness and the effort to deny other people pleasure and joy; the "Buzzkill" and "Debbie Downer" archetypes.

Mammon - The personification of sensual gluttony and the pursuit of material wealth/riches for its own sake; manifests as both avarice/greed and hedonism.

Lilith - The corruption of feminine archetype; the abdication of motherly duties in favor of either a prostitute existence or a misplaced desire for a woman to act out an inversion of femininity.

Narcissus - Extreme self-possession and obsession with one's own image; visceral pride; failure to recognize others as independent beings; extreme solipsism