Circe Midterm

Oceanus

Titan God of freshwater, Circe’s maternal grandfather

Helios

Titan God of the sun, Circe’s father

Perses

Circe’s brother, asshole

Melia

Perse’s sister

Rhea

Titaness and wife of Kronos

Kronos

Titan of Time, father of Zeus

Phaethousa

One of Helios’s daughter, one of Circe’s 2 half-sisters

Nereus

‘Old man of the sea’, older god of the ocean

Selene

Helios’s sister, goddess of the moon

Boreas

Personification of the Northern Wind

Allecto

One of the Furies, deliverer of Prometheus’s whipping

Daedalus

Master inventor, imprisoned in Crete by Minos and Pasiphae, father of Icarus

Glaucos

Former mortal fisherman, turned into a seagod by Circe and a bed of magical flowers

Pharmakis

Witchcraft

Scylla

Beautiful nymph turned sea monster by Circe, out of jealousy.

Achelos

Circe’s uncle

Proteus

shape shifting god of the sea, guardian of poseidon’s seals

Aeetus

Youngest child of Perse and Helios, Circe’s least cruel sibling, king of Colchis, owns a dragon

Pasiphae

Wife of Minos, pharmaka of Crete, mother of the Minotaur, Circe’s youngest sister, a bitch

Hephaestus

Blacksmith of the Gods, husband of Aphrodite

Demeter

Goddess of the Harvest

Mnemosyne

Goddess of memory and mother of the 9 muses

Polydamas

Captain of the ship that was sent to get Circe

Prometheus

Titan of fire, punished by Zeus for giving fire to mortals, whipped by Allecto then forced to have his liver pecked out each day by a eagle

Naiad

Nymph that resides over freshwater and fountains

Telegonus

Circe’s and Odysseus’s son and only child, target of Athena, eventual ruler of Tusculum

Trygon

Immortal stingray with a tail possessing poison strong enough to kill a god

Ouranos

Creator of the world

Styx

The river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld

Eileithyia

Goddess of childbirth, daughter of Hera and Zeus

Laertes

Father of Odysseus

Elpenor

One of Odysseus’s crewmates, he fell off of Circe’s roof and died, he also sang a lot

Nicanor

A man who kept the largest herd of goats, father of one of Penelope’s suitors, sought vengeance for his son after Odysseus killed him

Agathon

Father of one of Penelope’s suitors, sought vengeance for his son after Odysseus killed him, has a carved-pine staff

Eupeithes

Leader of the group of Penelope’s suitors, father of one of Penelope’s suitors, sought vengeance for his son after Odysseus killed him, let Telemachus pick pears from his orchard

Anima

The archetype of female in a man

Animus

The archetype of male in a woman

Archtype

Primary structural element of human psyche, predisposed for specific human experiences such as birth, motherhood, death, love, etc.

Symbol

The unknown background a psychic expression as part of the Jungian approach to the unconscious

Unconscious

The part of the mind that is not directly accessible to consciousness.

Collective unconscious

Distinctive from the personal unconscious, consists in archetypes or primordial images.

Personal unconscious

The portion of each individual's unconscious that contains the elements of his or her own experience.

Extrovert

Outward-turning of the libido. With this concept I denote a manifest relatedness of subject to object in the sense of a positive movement of subjective interest towards the object.

Introvert

Inward turning of the libido, whereby a negative relation of subject to object is expressed. Interest does not move towards the object, but recedes toward the subject.

Dream

Spontaneous and natural manifestation of the psyche.

Libido

Nonsexual tendency towards lust and psychic energy.

Individuation

The transcendent force of difference someone originating in painful experiences such as separation, bullying and persona loss or tragedy; synthesis consisting mainly of the union between conscious and unconscious.

Homeostasis

The compensatory function of human psyche that amins to maintain equilibrium.

Enantiodromia

The path to individuation that leads one to opposing sides within the psyche.

Shadow

The “bad” or repressed parts of the individual personality, counterpart to the Freudian unconscious.