Archetypes are species blueprints. I use the model of a constellation to think about them, especially the archetypal masculine. I think that pretty well any form of masculinity can be located somewhere with and within these twelve basic types, singly or in combination. They unfold from the primal four: father, warrior, hunter and friend. I have not listed their shadow forms, eg healer/charlatan, king/tyrant, etc.
The Culture bearers might be divided into two: the poet/singer and the teacher/mentor. One creates cultural forms, the other passes them on.
As I have noted before, homosexual men tend to cluster around the Culture and the Ornament "stars" in the constellation. They are not uncommon in the Sacred star, either...at least in Christian countries, where you get a confluence of culture and ornament with spirituality.
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so the what would the feminine be? i dont believe that anyone can try to plot out one gender without at leas unintentionally creating an outline for the other... since they kind of tend to be opposites
I have given a little thought to that: http://usmalesf.blogspot.com/2013/04/mars-and-venus-again.html
But it's not really my interest or area of expertise.
Not unsurprisingly or originally, I think that the feminine has its root in the mother archetype.
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