The Relationship Between Archetypes and Religions

An archetype is an individualized individuated version of a larger thing that in some time are the myth or the symbol or the God or goddess. The ancient poets animated all sensible objects with gods or geniuses calling them by the names and adorning them with properties such as woods rivers mountains lake cities nations. Some took advantage of this to abstract mental deities from their objects thus began the priesthood. William Blake's "Marriage of heaven and hell" was written around 1780-1790 when he first published his work. He wrote it about how men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast but they chose forms of worship from poetic tales.