Archetype

Could an archetype form in the mind,
Through collective unconscious enshrined?
Might archaic man sense
What some men will see hence?
So says Jung; "we're acausal entwined."

An archetype is the original pattern or form from which all things of the same kind are based; they are a model or a prototype. Archetypes have been present in mythology and literature for thousands of years. The use of archetypes in analytic psychology was advanced by C. G. Jung. He speculated that the mechanism for communication of these patterns could be due to synchronicity (an acausal connecting principle) between cultures made manifest by a process described by his concept of the collective unconscious.Such archetypes can be found in certain religious traditions with frequent recurrence of self-similar imagery, e.g., sacrificial imagery and cross cultural mythological symbols, such as the Summerian Ningishzida, the earliest known symbol based on snakes entwined around an axial rod. This pattern is common across Hellenistic and Judaic cultures; indeed this self-similar pattern is strongly reminiscent of the double helix spiral of DNA today.