When it is ARCHETYPAL what does it means?

Question

I cant understand this word,The real question is,

"Satan is an archetype,How it becomes ARCHETYPAL?"

Any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

An Archetype, proposed by Karl Gustav Jung, is a theme that repeats throughout history. It is different from a cliche' in that it is not something that is done to death and tired, rather it is something that recurs as a pattern of symbolism and behavior.

Satan is an archetype because he is the "evil incarnate" being. This is something that repeats in almost every culture - there's always that one deity who is really and truly up to no good, the one everyone really ought to know better than to have any dealings with, and yet, there he is, right in the thick of things. (This repeats as Loki in the Norse religion, Bacchus in the Greek, Set in the Egyptian, Coyote in the Native American, and so on.)

This was also written about at length by a mythologist named Joseph Campbell in his book "The Hero With A Thousand Faces," which focuses on the pattern of the Hero's Journey (a motif best demonstrated in modern times by Luke Skywalker of "Star Wars").