that mythology was mainly the product of some historical characters’ creative mind with their own individual archetypes, who through their ideas passed them on to congregations causing violence and collective madness amongst them.
This has been happening due to man’s inability to see how symbols affect his conscious mind lacking both the knowledge and the inquisitiveness as to the nature of these symbols. Note that man normally doesn’t regard symbols as an object for analysis: he prefers to rely on their interpretation by social institutes whose sole purpose is to influence his mind to their advantage. Living in terms of symbols man unfortunately neglects to look into their origin. Considering the fact that Christian symbolism and customs having had their impact on the human mind for about two thousand years, it would seem odd to see the majority still refuse to see into their meaning. While describing the religious symbols, Jung stated that people accept them with no doubts or reflections much in the same way as they view the process of decorating a Christmas tree or coloring Easter eggs not having any idea as to its meaning: “It would be futile to ask a modern man about the true meaning of a Christmas tree or Easter egg. The fact is that people do certain things without knowing the reason for their actions”. [1;7]. Though being not quite inquisitive about things could be dangerous for a person since he may get involved into unclear introjections of suggested symbols. But, according to Jung, what’s important is, that those who realize their “spiritual poverty and the loss of symbols”, but is incapable of being satisfied with just the ‘ersatz’ , may find himself in rather a complex situation: “frightened he turns away from the
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