Hero and Leander is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero (Ancient Greek Ἡρώ, Hērṓ;Hɛːrɔ̌ː), a priestess of Aphrodite (Venus in Roman mythology) who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont, and Leander (Ancient Greek Λέανδρος, Léandros), a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait Leander fell in love with Hero and The hero myth is an unconscious drama seen only in projection, like the happenings in Plato's parable of the cave"The Dual Mother," CW 5, par 612 The hero symbolizes a man's unconscious self, and this manifests itself empirically as the sum total of all archetypes and therefore includes the archetype of the father and of the wise
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