Maiden, Mother, Crone...but for guys...???

Feb 19, 2005 01:52

Okay, so we all know about the 3 primary phases of a woman's life. So what's the male equivalent???

Anyone???

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xi_o_teaz February 19 2005, 23:28:42 UTC
I've been thinking about this for a few days, now. At first, I was trying to recall any specific Traditional divisions. Since I couldn't recall any, I made some up (as I tend to Do ( ... )

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atlas_mason February 20 2005, 08:18:03 UTC
Learning, destructive, healing, elder. I know that is four, but we differ from those women things. We have not got the phases that women have. What are the comming of age things for the modern man? There are none. We have no shoving blowflys up the nose, hunting down a bear things like we used to. Women still have a remnant of that, but it is going away too. We as individuals are killing the society that made us need these age old traditions.

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kaidevis February 22 2005, 20:35:26 UTC
In Hinduism, they sort it out as student, householder, retired/sannyasin.

You might float this question on the pagan communities; they're full of people who do nothing but think about this sort of thing.

I've always been somewhat fond of Pan, Warrior, Sage. I couldn't point to a specific trad for that, though. I know I've seen a fivefold division within some neopagan trads, but I couldn't tell you what for the life of me.

Most male developmental psychology from pre-rational to rational to trans-rational follows the concepts of Freedom and Justice, which is where the warriorship (rational) and sagehood (trans-rational) tend to come in, if those are useful concepts for you to play with.

As to how to demark the male changes, we obviously don't have things like first menses and menopause to make clear distinctions. However, puberty and grayheadedness make fuzzy but observable lines. Most things I've seen tend to aim along those lines.

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