Quotes About Chthonic

The aim of this fight is to combine the phallic-chthonic with the spiritual-heavenly masculinity, and the creative union with the anima in the hieros gamos is symptomatic of this.

At the same time the act of sacrifice is a fertilization of the mother: the chthonic serpent-demon drinks the blood, i.e., the soul, of the hero. In this way life becomes immortal, for, like the sun, the hero regenerates himself by his self-sacrifice and re-entry into the mother.

For years they have pursued me. Their persistence has kept me underground Ã¢â'¬Â¦ forced me to live in purgatory Ã¢â'¬Â¦ laboring beneath the earth like a chthonic monster.