Creator God Archetype

Throughout the history, humankind have inherited and shared a universal pattern which induces a perception of categories known as archetypes. Humans have remained perplexed by the existence of the whole and often raised question like who created the universe? Or how was the universe originated? However, humans have virtually considered the creation of the universe by a creator god. Carl Jung, a Swiss physician describes this inborn proneness to have parallel thinking about certain categories among humans as an archetype. The creator god has been prominent across various culture for the emergence of the universe and existence of everything on it. Based on Jung’s philosophy of an archetype, the creator god demonstrates an archetype as it exhibits

In Hinduism, Brahma is the creator god who created the sky, the heaven, and the earth. According to Vedas, the origin of the world began with the birth of Brahma from the navel of Vishnu. For a long time, there was just Brahma meditating on a lotus and Vishnu sleeping on a floating cobra in a dark vast ocean. Once Vishnu commanded Brahma to create the world and then Brahma emitted from himself various elements of the universe and the notions to understand them (Willis 74). He created a heaven, sky, and the earth from the lotus and filled the earth with living organisms. After that, he created the male and the female species to expand the living world and then the process of birth and death continued. While, the idea of creation is abstract, humans have often raised questions about themselves, their origin, and their creator. Carl Jung, believed that this was because of the archetype that human beings are born to think, feel, perceive, and act. Brahma represents the idea of creator god and an archetype that humans have engraved in their

For instance, the creation of world from a dark water abyss to a living world by Atum, an Egyptian deity exemplifies homogenous impression of creator god. According to Egyptian mythology, the spirit of creator was bounded by the primeval water as there was emptiness all over. The origin began with the emergence of Atum from primeval chaos in the form of a serpent. However, he was alone so he gave birth to the first divine couple. Then, the divine couple Shu and Tefenet gave birth to other gods and goddesses and the world was formed out of chaos (Willis 39). Considering the complexities of nature, humankind have considered that all of the resources including water, wind, land, and other things are created by none other than the creator. This indicates that some ideas are universal and inherited by all humans independent of their tradition. Moreover, Jung claimed that a part of human mind contained a collective unconsciousness shared by all human species. The phenomena of creation by Atum manifest the persona of creator god and it thereby establishes similarities that can be recognized by all humans regardless of their culture, ethnicity, or geographical