January
14
/ 2018
Ancient civilizations who navigated the unforgiving coastlines of the North Atlantic, like the Vikings, feared, worshiped, and mythologized a pantheon of unforgiving sea creatures with origins half in this world and half in much, much darker places. Seductive sirens, alluring mer-folk and enchanting sea witches joined together to create the mythology of oceanic peoples; while the Shamans of jungle locked cultures toiled with similarly malevolent spirits in the form of insect, plant, and animal spirits, entities, and gods. Found within folklore and mythological systems at distant parts of the globe, characters and personality types can be found playing out similar roles and activities, with stared outcomes and underlying moral instruction. This observation, according to Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, can be
