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Archetypes. NUMBERS. Jennifer A. Bennett Sanderson High School Raleigh, North Carolina. Numbers as Archetypes: 3. Spiritual awareness and unity Light Male principle Examples: Holy Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) Spiritual rebirth (water, blood, spirit)

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  1. Archetypes NUMBERS Jennifer A. Bennett Sanderson High School Raleigh, North Carolina

  2. Numbers as Archetypes: 3 • Spiritual awareness and unity • Light • Male principle • Examples: • Holy Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) • Spiritual rebirth (water, blood, spirit) • Father Time (past, present, future) • Beginning, middle, end • Three Pillars of Eternity • the Creation, • the Fall, • the Atonement

  3. Numbers as Archetypes: 4 • Associated with circle, earth, nature • Four corners/four directions (North/East/South/West) • Four elements (earth, air, fire, water) • Life cycle • Four seasons—spring, summer, fall, winter • Humankind • Four limbs • Female principle • Mother Earth (Gaia) • Mother Nature

  4. Numbers as Archetypes: 7 • Most potent of all symbolic numbers • Union of 3 (divinity/heaven) & 4 (mankind/earth) • Relationship between God and man • Revelation, chapters 1, 4, 5 • Completion of a cycle; perfect order • Seven days in a week • Seven days to create the world • Seven stages of civilization • Seven stages of man

  5. The Seven Stages of Man JAQUESAll the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.And then the whining school-boy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And then the lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful balladMade to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,Seeking the bubble reputationEven in the cannon's mouth.

  6. The Seven Stages of Man And then the justice,In fair round belly with good capon lined,With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,Full of wise saws and modern instances;And so he plays his part. The sixth age shiftsInto the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wideFor his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,Turning again toward childish treble, pipesAnd whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,That ends this strange eventful history,Is second childishness and mere oblivion,Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. As You Like It, William Shakespeare

  7. Numbers as Archetypes: 7 • More examples: • Seven Deadly Sins • Seven colors in the rainbow • Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit • Seven seas • Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church • Seven Horcruxes • Seven Chakras

  8. More Analysis What do the archetypes in these images communicate?

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