Here's the thing that's unbelievable to me: it's not so surprising that we dream in archetypes. What gets me is that I dream, in minute detail, mythic characters I don't know exist. I read about them later, after the dream, and they match.
Don't know what's up with that. But, so far, here's what I've seen:
Baba Yaga/Kali destroyer goddess - I was in her very bare earthen hut, there was a stone table in teh center. She had long dark hair and was very pale, young and beautiful. There was a skeleton on the table and she opened her mouth and started singing. This beautiful noise came out, the humm of creation itself it seemed. And the bones knit back together.
Hawaiian Goddess - I can't remember her name (Post if you do!. She's the volcano one. I dreamt that I was in a rain forest tribe and we were at a pool in the middle of the woods. The medicine man motioned for me to reach into the pool, which was swimming with fish. I reached in and pulled out something wrapped in a leaf. I later saw a documentary about the goddess and this is exactly what her offerings looked like.
Mother Nature - it had to have been her. She was dressed in a pale blue sarong and looked great in it, though she was a little plump. She looked polynesian. Everywhere she walked, flowers grew. When I asked her why she said it was because she wanted everywhere she went to look like her home. I believe she said she lived in Barbados. I wish I lived in Barbados!
Enki - this was a doozy. He's the Sumerian god of wisdom, is said to have come from the watery deep. I dreamt I was on a beach. There was simultaneously a flood and a drying up/flowering of the land. Animals were running down the beach in pairs, (like in Noah's Ark), trying to escape the waves. Two lions, manes waving in the wind, particularly stood out.
At the same time, animals were coming up out of the sea. All kinds of fantastic creatures. One in particular stood out the most. He had a fish head, zebra stripes, but was huge and had arms & legs, elbows even. He was crawling out of the water. Well, later I found this was the exact description of Enki. Not only that, but later still I saw a documentary on pre-historic fish with fingers. Now, I've heard that a creature just like Enki, land and sea dwelling, elbows and all, he even stood upright. Did in fact exists. Stripes could have been stripes like fish had.
A bit strange, if you ask me.
Anyone else out there have weird dreams? Or dreams you'd like to have interpreted - I'm good at that. [color:"blue"] [/color] <img src="/images/graemlins/fish.gif" alt="" />