Mythology

Roles: figure, culture, narrative, moral, transformation, threshold

Sacred or traditional narratives that encode a culture’s understanding of origins, values, and the boundaries of the possible. Mythological figures undergo transformations and cross boundaries (mortal/divine, human/animal) that ordinary beings cannot. Productive as a source domain because myths compress complex cultural knowledge into memorable archetypal patterns.

As Source Frame (82)

• Achilles' Heel → network-security, argumentation
• Aegis → governance, social-behavior
• Alchemy → creative-process
• Augean Stables → governance
• Berserker → social-control
• Cassandra → social-behavior
• Cerberus → network-security
• Chimera → creative-process, biology
• The Chosen One → governance, social-roles
• Cornucopia → economics, social-behavior
• Daemon Is a Background Spirit → computing
• Daemon → computing
• Damocles' Sword → governance
• Dark Forest → social-behavior
• Deep Magic → software-programs
• Dragon Hoard → economics
• Elysium → social-behavior
• Emperor's New Clothes → social-control
• Excalibur → social-behavior
• Faustian Bargain → economics
• Frankenstein → software-engineering
• Golem → rule-following
• Gordian Knot → social-behavior
• Herculean Task → event-structure
• Holy Grail → journeys, intellectual-inquiry
• Hydra Code → software-programs
• Hydra
• Icarus
• Karma → social-behavior
• Koan → hidden-knowledge
• Labyrinth → governance
• Magic Number → software-programs
• Mentor → education, social-roles
• Midas Touch → economics
• Mordor → social-control
• Narcissism → mental-experience, social-behavior
• Necromancy → software-programs
• Nemesis → social-behavior
• Odyssey → journeys
• The One Ring → governance
• Ouroboros → systems-thinking
• Palantir → surveillance
• Pandemonium → social-behavior
• Pandora's Box → social-behavior, governance
• Pandora's Box → technology-risk, ethics-and-morality
• Phoenix → event-structure
• Pied Piper
• Procrustean Bed → social-control
• Prometheus
• Ragnarok → destruction, event-structure
• Round Table → governance
• Rumpelstiltskin → hidden-knowledge
• Scylla and Charybdis → decision-making
• Shapeshifter
• The Shire → technology-risk
• Silver Bullet → software-programs
• Siren Song → decision-making
• Siren → decision-making, economics
• Sisyphean Task → event-structure
• Sorcerer's Apprentice → social-control
• Sphinx Riddle → intellectual-inquiry
• Tantalus → mental-experience
• The Anima / Animus → creative-tension
• The Divine Child → potential-and-emergence
• The Great Mother → nurturing-and-creation
• The Hero → social-roles
• The Maiden → potential-and-emergence
• The Persona → social-roles
• The Self → integration-and-wholeness
• The Senex → authority-and-mentorship
• The Shadow → hidden-knowledge
• The Shapeshifter → social-roles
• The Trickster → social-roles
• The Wise Old Man → authority-and-mentorship
• Trojan Horse → network-security, software-programs
• Trojan War → conflict-escalation
• Troll → computing
• Valhalla → social-behavior
• World Tree → governance, ontological-hierarchy
• Yin and Yang → integration-and-wholeness
• Zombie Process → software-programs
• Hubris → social-behavior