 So we'll begin with the father, the creator of order. Obviously we see this again and again. You might know him as God. You might recognize him as God. But I mean, there is a father in the sky in almost every system. And I think the reason why it's specifically a sky father is that, you know, when you're a boy, you look upward to your father. You literally look up to your father. It's not just a figure of speech. You look up to your father because he's taller than you. And he represents, in some sense, you know, for a girl, he represents a model of what a man is. But for a young man, he represents a model of what he will become. Or what he could become. But of course the truth of that is, is that you never actually become your father. That's impossible. He's himself. So there's something beyond a father, something higher than a father. The father of fathers. He's the ideal father. One father to rule them all. Odin is called the all father. And I think that's why, you know, it's so normal. I mean, so much of the stuff I like to talk about is so simple and repetitive because we've been doing it over and over and over and over again. And it's just everyone has that experience that your father is higher than you. And why would he not be in the sky where light and the sun is? And the sun provides order and light. You know, there's no real system in which darkness symbolizes good. And, you know, the light symbolizes evil that almost never happens. We've been doing the same thing, creating the same ideas over and over again. So he's motivated by logos, which is, of course, logic and reason. And each of these figures has a kind of excellence to them. Like, what is their excellence? What is their arete? And, of course, he's going to be involved in problem solving, leadership, decision making. And the other thing about the father and the symbolism of the father and the striker are often very similar because the father and the striker, the striker usually becomes a father. We don't have to become a father. Basically, like, you can't become a father without usually being an ascended striker. You know, all, most of the, whether you're George Washington or Zeus, you had to kill a monster of chaos before you could take over your kingdom. And throughout this book, I like to frame it in two different senses. What is the role of the father? And he has two different roles. A father in darkness, which would be the stuff that you aren't supposed to see. Like, you're not, if you're being, you know, if you're the kid or the, you know, the people being ruled, you're not supposed to see the father in darkness. Because, you know, if you're a good leader in any way, man, that's hard. That's hard work. And you have to sit and think of like, oh, what are the consequences of all the things that I could do and there's so many possible outcomes and this could hurt this person and this could hurt that person. And I'm setting a precedent here and maybe that's a bad precedent. And that's a lot to think about and it's confusing and it's stressful. So, you know, I think that there's a job of the father that doesn't get seen a lot and you're not supposed to see it. Because, you know, if dad freaks out, then everybody freaks out. But, you know, any leader or father who's, you know, worth his salt and actually cares about his kids or his people is going to be a little stressed out sometimes and confused about what he should do. So, I think it's symbolized really well by Rah and his solar barge. He's an Egyptian god of the sun and he symbolizes, you know, in the ancient world obviously the sun goes down and where did it go? It disappeared for the whole night. Well, Rah in the stories goes and fights chaos monsters all night long. And in the morning, you know, he defeats them and therefore the sun rises again. And it's just a really beautiful image. And it's also really symbolized really well. The father in darkness is symbolized really well by Odin. Because, you know, there's a story about Odin that he was on the tree of life for, you know, a whole, you know, nine nights. It was windy, no one gave him any, you know, horn or loaf. And he did this not for, you know, it wasn't a sacrifice. It sounds Christ-like but it's not quite the same thing. He did this for knowledge. In this case, the symbolism and magic of writing in the rooms. And so he sacrificed himself at night and went through this ordeal to, you know, understand the world. And then the father in light, as I said, you know, he makes an overseas laws. Because he's already made his decision. This is the part that you see. This is the confident father who tells you, okay, this is what we're going to do. And this is why. This is the course of action and we're going to stick to it. And I love the idea. This is a great image. And I think I just heard that somebody else used it. But we love this image because it shows what the father does. He draws lines. And that's present in the language as well. In the Rex, which is the Roman version of King. But it's also in the royal styles of, like, the British royal family. Versions of Rex. I mean, it's a queen right now. So it's like Regina or something like that. But it's in part of their titles. It corresponds to the Rajan in the Vedic. Kind of an ancient Indian culture. And it goes back to a proto-European root, which I talk about that a lot. And it's really a theoretical language that a lot of languages come from. And that's Haig, or, you know, however, they don't even know how to pronounce it. It's all theoretical. But all these things mean to write or straighten oneself. They come from, you know, write, draw his lines. That's what kings do. They draw lines. They make boundaries. They make rules. And what's cool that we also had another word for that, which is ruler. That's what a ruler does. A ruler is a king and also someone who draws lines. All these things just come together in this really elegant way. The second archetype that I want to talk about is the striker.