A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).
Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.
The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).
The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.
Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.
An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.
According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.