Myth, Shadow, & Ego

A title reflecting on Jungian archetypes. A page for beautiful art on Norse themes.

As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down
These heavy notions creep around
It makes me think
Long ago I was brought into this life, a little lamb
A little lamb
Courageous, stumbling
Fearless was my middle name
But somewhere there I
Lost my way
Everyone walks the same
Expecting me to step
The narrow path they've laid
They claim to

Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me
High...

Say "keep within the boundaries if you want to play"
Say "contradiction only makes it harder"
How can I be
What I want to be?
When all I want to do is strip away
These stilled constraints
And crush this charade
Shred this sad masquerade
I don't need no persuading
I'll trip, fall, pick myself up and

Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me
High...

If I have a bag of rocks to carry as I go
I just want to hold my head up high
I don't care what I have to step over
I'm prepared to look you in the eye
Look me in the eye
And if you see familiarity
Then celebrate the contradiction
Help me when I fall to

Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me
High.
"Walk Unafraid," REM

"People do not dream, they are dreamt. We undergo our dreams." -C. Jung

The Valkyrie Brunhild leading her fierce war-stallion Grane, by Arthur Rackham

Courtesy is owed, respect is earned, love is given.
--unknown

Ehwaz, or Movement: the rune of the Horse, associated with the course of the Sun

Songs are thoughts, sung out with the breath when people are moved by great forces and ordinary speech no longer suffices.
-- Orpingalik, Netsilik Eskimo

An Odhinnic Shield of a Valkyrie astride the magical steed Sleipnir, surrounded by the Runes of Knowledge

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
-- Alexander Pope

Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker

The function of myth, of psychological allegory, is to feed a hunger, not for facts, but for meaning. We want to understand the torrent of change in which we are swimming -- or drowning.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold

Brunhild, Valkyrie & fierce battle maid

Truth hath no confines.
-- H. Melville

The Chosers of the Slain fly to battle through night's shadow

What's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right.
- unknown