Wise Elder
21 books featuring this archetype
The Wise Elder offers counsel grounded in experience and communal norms. This figure moderates impetuous action and sets deliberative pace.
Antigone
Sophocles • Greek
Kalpa Sutra
Bhadrabahu • Indian
Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra
Anonymous • Indian
Codex Mendoza
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Ozidi Saga
Oral Tradition • African
Annals of the Cakchiquels
Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz • Mesoamerican
Codex Nuttall
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Relación de Michoacán
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Title of the Lords of Totonicapán
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Blackfoot Cycles
Anonymous • Native American
Coast Salish Tales
Coast Salish oral tradition • Native American
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Ella E. Clark • Native American
Kwakiutl Tales
Franz Boas • Native American
Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Katharine Berry Judson • Native American
Tlingit Myth Anthologies
John R. Swanton • Native American
Tsimshian Myths
Franz Boas • Native American
Myths and Legends of Micronesia
Nancy Bo Flood • Pacific
Codex Bodley
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Codex Vindobonensis
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Ritual of the Bacabs
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Oghuz Khagan Epic
Anonymous • Persian