Storys of Heros

Common Themes in the Life of the Hero

  1. The Hero is the morning star

  2. The Hero is often blue or green.

  3. He wears a beard.

  4. He is shown wearing horns.

  5. His animal is the bull

  6. His sign is the cross.

  7. He is associated with the sun and the wind.

  8. He is associated with the east.

  9. He comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

  10. His mother was a Virgin.

  11. He was miraculously conceived and was a miraculous child. And, sometimes, so was the devil/trickster.

  12. He was abandoned as a child but was protected by strangers/animals.

  13. He travelled over the face of the earth.

  14. He taught mankind the arts of agricultureand civilization

  15. He had an evil, twin brother.

  16. His death is foretold in adream

  17. He has a tragic vulnerability or he commits a sin

  18. He is killed by his brother.

  19. A Pig is involved in his death.

  20. He dies at the time of the Summer Solstice.

  21. Goats {The Pleiades} are involved and the colors red and black

  22. Meteoric Iron is involved in his death.

  23. He is struck in his vulnerable heel

  24. His body is torn to pieces/multiplied

  25. His phallus is severed/destroyed/remains.

  26. Read "Groin" for "Side"

  27. He ascends into/ is hung from/ is bound to/ is enclosed in a tree.

  28. See also "tree-phallus"

  29. His death is lamented

  30. He descends to Hell, passing Scorpions/Scorpio on the way.

  31. He is resurrected.

  32. He ascends to heaven. February 5, 3112 B.C.

  33. He promises to return

  34. He beomes a golden ring

  35. He is given a place in heaven.