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Sherkova, T. A.
Divine child and great mother in
egyptian mythology: mythological and psychological
incest.
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2010. № 11.
P. 39-49.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57835
Sherkova, T. A. Divine child and great mother in
egyptian mythology: mythological and psychological
incest.
Abstract:
In a mythological Ancient Egyptian picture of the
world described by Heliopolis cosmogony incest relations
between gods were quite natural. Having come out of the
primordial waters of Nu creator Atum gave birth to twins
representing the elements of the world: God of Air named
Shu and Goddess Telfnut. In their turn, the twins gave
birth to the God of Earth, Geb, and the sky goddess Nut.
Their children, Osiris, Seth, Isis and Nephthys, became
the main heroes of events described by Ancient Egyptian
mythology. According to the author, from the point of view
of psychology these myths reveal unconscious projections
in a structure of taboo gende relations between relatives, in the first place, Isis, the mother, and Hathor, the son.
Keywords:
psychology, archetype of Infant, image of the world, hero the savior, mater fixation, fratricide and incest, second birth, ambivalence of Mother’s archetype, conflict between consciousness and unconsciousness, solar symbolics of consciousness
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