Up: [[Mythology]]
Created: 2023-09-06
- A second (and divine) set of parents
- A birth immediately preceded by a death
- Receiving a second or secret name
- Close calls with death
- Abduction or kidnapping
- The call to adventure
- The fall from paradise
- Underworld or [[Otherworld]] journey
- Heroic quest
- Shapeshifting
- Retrieval of a magical object
- Helping or being helped by a magical being
- Taking a leadership role or position of responsibility unusually early in life
- Discovering a new realm
- Killing a mortal enemy
- Living a secret double life
- Trickster encounters
- The intergenerational curse
- Exile and homecoming
- Imprisonment/Limbo
- Breakout
- Betrayal
- The ‘great meeting’
- The search
- Taking the medicine
- Threshold or passageway
- The contest or battle
- The apocalypse
- Apotheosis (becoming godlike)
> [!User] Cited in [[Sharon Blackie]]’s *Courting the Soul* course module 5, *Living Mythically*. She credits Craig Chalquist