The triple feminine: Jesus, Medea and the Poet’s identity as a sacrificial witch

Abstract

Built from a comparison between the figures of the Greek mythical character Medea and the savior and son of God, from Christian mythology, Jesus Christ, the text intends to present a possible sight of the Poet’s image we named “sacrificial witch.” The idea is to propose a symbolic referential tópos from which the artist, especially the Poet, will be understood as a female figure and endowed with special powers over the cosmos, whose sacrifice leads to an ascension. In this ascension are revealed a series of symbols and images linked to the universe of the woman as mother, foreigner and witch, who act as fundamental driver forces of her poetic work, derived from this crisis established in the identity of the creator in the face of her martyrdom. Thus, starting from our analysis of the two archetypal characters, we will propose a perception of the sacrificed sorceress as one of the possible identity archetypes of this Poet in the face of suffering.