Culture-Hero

The creative introvert, like Merlin, can forego the usual life-stages and be youngster and oldster at once-- a characteristic of the Self, the uniting symbol.  He, being inward, can address the Deep-within; perhaps he will be allowed to remake its forms to fit the world situation with which he must contend; and thereby is he a culture-hero, who with instinctual fire reforges in the Deep the archetypal images of power, and resets them in a new structure, and presents the whole to the world to manifest at large.  But none of this would be possible without the help of the primordial Serpent, the image of images, ruler of them all.