El camino arquetípico del héroe: el mago y el sumo sacerdote en las novelas de Gwendolyn MacEwen

Abstract

Gwendolyn MacEwen’s work is extremely rich from a symbolical point of view. She has taken her inspiration from multiple sources which act as catalysts to creativity in her work and as catalysts to discovery for her readers. Much of her symbolism and imagery has its origins in myth, religion, philosophy and history, but also in some esoteric doctrines such as alchemy, the cabala and the Tarot. All of them are interrelated forming a symbolical whole in continuous evolution. This paper examines the archetypal journey of the hero in her two novels, Julian the Magician and King of Egypt, King of Dreams, and the interconnections which exist between the two, based on the Jungian theories about the unconscious and the symbolism of the Tarot.