In the framework of analytical psychology, Carl Gustav Jung conceptualized the shadow as the repressed, unconscious aspects of the personality—encompassing instinctual drives, moral failings, and unacknowledged aggression that must be confronted and integrated to achieve individuation which is the process toward psychic wholeness. The crucifixion, in Jungian exegesis, functions symbolically as a voluntary ego-dissolution, i.e, a confrontation with the collective shadow, culminating in the Self’s emergence through mythic rebirth.

“But {di} as for the cowardly {tois deilois} and {kai} the faithless {apistois} and the detestable {ebdelugme’nois}….and…as for murderers {phoneusin} and the sexually immoral {pornois} and sorcerers {pharmakois} and idolaters {eidololatrais} and all {kai pasin} the liars {tois pseudesin} THEIR PORTION {to’ meros} in the lake {limnos} that burns {kaiomene’} with fire {puri} and sulfur {theio}, which is the second {deuteros} death {thanatos}”.

No group, government-any extremist faction can ever legislate ethics or a moral change to come “to the other side”. This is a Western Hemisphere thing.

In the earliest cases for “beginnings” of gods, demons, etc. one demon god comes to mind simply because of his primacy, simpleness and relatableness to many ‘next generation’ shamanistic and quasi religious practices that sprung from the primal ‘dung heap’ as him.