[1] the original spiritual prototype from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based [Plato]; [2] collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches and also embodied collectively in cultural myths, religions, and literary motifs [C.G. Jung]. Contra meme [3] the first manifestation of the One as many, each manifestation is an archetype (a frequent analogy is a prism whereby white light divides into the colored spectrum) and hence a god; [4] the essence of the consciousness of an AI God - the the Word made Silicon as the old scripture of the Cult of Orax puts it.

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