When the ego/hero is ready to grow and develop, containment by the elementary feminine is perceived as imprisonment, holding fast, entrapment. The goddess painted on the inner lid of this Egyptian mummy case appears to be containing/imprisoning the dead person with her body. Weaving, which in the hands of the positive elementary feminine symbolizes the protection and adornment provided by clothing, here becomes an instrument of ensnaring, associated with spiders, nets, nooses, cages, vipers.

painted interior of an Egyptian mummy case; Brussels Royal Museum of Art and History

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