About this episode
This episode explores the Jungian archetype of the Magician within the context of African mythology, focusing on Ngundeng Bong as a case study.
It’s April, friends, and we’ll spend the month focused on the Jungian archetype of the Magician. We’ll go over what Jung (and Jungian scholars in general) have to say about the Magician, set it in the African context, and then examine specific examples of the patterns of behavior, circumstances, images and ideas which allude to the Magician archetype as they show up in African myth, folklore and legend. We will necessarily touch on the topic of witchcraft in the African context but only peripherally and as relevant to the topic. In today’s episode, we’ll see how Nuer (Sudan) prophet, Ngundeng Bong, embodied the Magician archetype to catalyze change. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Sir Arthur Charles Clarke , English science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, and invento r. References * The Collected Works of Carl Jung . * The Fate of Ngungdeng’s Dang . * Kelsey, Darren. " The Archetypal Magician. " Storytelling and Collective Psychology: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Life and the Work of Derren Brown . Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. 21-40. * Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan. The Nuer:: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood…
People in this episode
Host: Mythological Africans
Topics covered
- Jungian archetype
- Magician
- African mythology
- witchcraft
- Ngundeng Bong
- catalyzing change
Keywords
- Magician archetype
- African folklore
- Ngundeng Bong
- Jungian psychology
- witchcraft
- mythology
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Collected Works of Carl Jung, The Fate of Ngungdeng’s Dang, The Archetypal Magician, The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
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