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
441 BCE
Greek
Kalpa Sutra
Bhadrabahu
400-500 CE
Indian, Jain
Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra
Anonymous
300-500 CE
Indian, Buddhist
Codex Mendoza
Anonymous
1541-1542 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Ozidi Saga
Oral Tradition
1963-1977 CE
African, Ijo
Annals of the Cakchiquels
Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz
1570-1600 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Codex Nuttall
Anonymous
1300-1500 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Relación de Michoacán
Anonymous
1540-1550 CE
Mesoamerican, Purepecha
Title of the Lords of Totonicapán
Anonymous
1554 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Blackfoot Cycles
Anonymous
1890-1918 CE
Native American, Blackfoot
Coast Salish Tales
Coast Salish oral tradition
1934 CE
Native American, Salish
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Ella E. Clark
1953 CE
Native American
Kwakiutl Tales
Franz Boas
1910 CE
Native American, Kwakiutl
Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Katharine Berry Judson
1910 CE
Native American
Tlingit Myth Anthologies
John R. Swanton
1880-1950 CE
Native American, Tlingit
Tsimshian Myths
Franz Boas
1916 CE
Native American, Tsimshian
Myths and Legends of Micronesia
Nancy Bo Flood
1900-2000 CE
Pacific, Micronesian
Codex Bodley
Anonymous
1500 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Codex Vindobonensis
Anonymous
1200-1521 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Ritual of the Bacabs
Anonymous
1700-1800 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Oghuz Khagan Epic
Anonymous
1200-1400 CE
Persian, Turkic