Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
in the skins of animals to get in touch with animal power. Chiron is the energy
and intuition of wild nature, gentled and harnessed to teaching. Like the shamans,
he is a bridge between humans and the higher powers of nature and the universe.
M e n t o r s in stories often show that they are connected to nature or to some other
world of the spirit.
As a Mentor, Chiron led his heroes-in-training through the thresholds of
manhood by patiendy teaching them the skills of archery, poetry, surgery, and so on.
He was not always well rewarded for his efforts. H i s violence-prone pupil Hercules
wounded him with a magic arrow which made Chiron beg the gods for the mercy of
death. But in the end, after a truly heroic sacrifice in which he rescued Prometheus
from the underworld by taking his place, Chiron received the highest distinction
the Greeks could bestow. Zeus made him a constellation and a sign of the zodiac
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