The Wounded King
Within ancient mythological story telling traditions, there exists a specific cycle of stories that deal with a synchronistic, psychic connection between a people, the land, and their king. Beginning with the oldest myths from Babylonia, Assyria, and other ancient populations, the storytellers and poets retold (from then-ancient oral traditions) a particular idea about psychic resonance… one that modern archeologists, mythologists, and psychoanalysts, as well as filmmakers, poets and artists continue to retell. This very old idea about mythic reverberation was understood as one which takes place in a triad between Creator, Culture, and Individual. Each entity within the triad mysteriously and deeply affects and inspires the other two. Thus, within a number of ancient Babylonian and Assyrian tales, the psychological, moral, and spiritual states of the heroic character (of the king or queen), were directly reflected in the health of the people, the homeland, its flora and fauna, and even...
