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Join us for part ten of the Hero's Journey: The Main Archetypes. Spoiler alert: there's always going to be one you hate. 

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Thank you We sneak in The hero's journey The main

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archetypes Eyelash mitt What are the seven main archetypes of

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the mon Amiss They are the hero who has been

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talking about the hair All you know hark the herald

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angels sing kind of predicts or tell informs the hero

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that something's come in The men core So the character

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that sort of helps i mean it's a mentor self

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explanatory threshold guardians So folks that are sort of offering

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that first initial challenge as the hero leaves their mundane

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life sort of crosses the threshold into heroism The trickster

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So someone that is sort of presenting things as may

00:57

be different than they really are right So usually the

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hero has to triumph not just by brute strength but

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also by kind of intelligence and wits rights of ideas

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that the trickster is out to trick them And the

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trickster is an interesting one because an african mythology on

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and also in some native american mythologies the tricks sister

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is really kind of revered figure An idea that there's

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ambiguity in the universe is not something that's rejected as

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in western mythology it's something that's actually embraced Two others

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are the shapeshifter and the shadow So these air to

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more examples to can follow up What i just said

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of challenges that really sort of show that campbell's understanding

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this very western right has shape shifters and some cultures

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are very powerful and khun b positive forces But campbell

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likes things to be what they are and so shape

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shifters air really threatening his life The shadow i think

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is another sort of you know force of darkness that

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again this kind of dangerous and is still hiding and

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obscured What are the seven main archetypes of the mon 00:02:11.218 --> [endTime] amiss

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