9 Evil Archetypes
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causticusAhriman - 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
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
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Date: 2020-09-14 04:45 pm (UTC)When I initially put out this rather rough sketch I was hoping that people more knowledgeable on the gods (or at least specific mythologies and traditions) than me could offer some corrections to anything I might have not put the right amount of thought or research into. I'll admit flat-out that my knowledge on Germanic polytheism is rather rudimentary, so in that sense I may have been working off a pop-culture picture of Loki.
On a more esoteric note, when I composed this schema, I had a planetary archetype model in mind. With regard to the "Loki' slot in this list I was looking for a character that would stand in for the negative aspects of Mercury, i.e. the misuse of speediness and quick-wit. I'm sure there's other beings out there that might better fit this. Would you happen to know of any offhand?
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Date: 2020-09-14 05:34 pm (UTC)