As it was found by researcher-sinologist Andrey Davydov, the author of the scientific discovery of the Catalog of human population, any kind of information about any representatives of the biological type Homo sapiens, who lived in the past, live today, or will live in the future is encrypted in archaic images* of one of the most ancient manuscripts 山海經 (Shan Hai Jing, Catalog of Mountains and Seas). The researcher also found that in order to decrypt the information from this book, it is necessary to decode hieroglyphs using special technology. Andrey Davydov created the technology to decrypt images of human programs and manipulation modes from Shan Hai Jing in the early 80s of the XX century.
Some of the hieroglyphs in Shan Hai Jing (Book of Mountains and Seas) are so ancient that they are hard to find in modern dictionaries. This ancient source, which, as Andrey Davydov discovered, preserved knowledge of functioning of a human and his psyche for many thousands of years**, contains a huge number of hieroglyphs. For example, there are over fifteen thousand hieroglyphs just in the first section of the book titled the Catalog of the Mountains, which consists of five parts out of existing eighteen. And, behind each one of these hieroglyphs (of course, excluding conjunctions, prepositions, and parts of speech that do not carry semantic meanings) is some archaic image, or, using the language of psychology—an archetype.
However, when discussing archetypes, the following must be noted right away. The word ‘archetype’, introduced to psychology by C. G. Jung***, refers to so-called “archetypes of the collective unconscious,” i.e., collective archetypes, while in the case of archetypes contained in the ancient manuscript 山海經 (Catalog of Mountains and Seas) we are discussing individual archetypes****. Archetypes in Jungian analytical psychology, along with instincts, are inborn psychical structures located in the depths of “the collective unconscious,” whereas archetypes listed in the Catalog of Mountains and Seas are a peculiar matrix, an imprint*****, recorded inside an individual, in his personal, individual unconscious. And, these archetypes do not in any way relate to “the collective unconscious.”
In understanding of followers of Jungian direction in psychology, specificity of archetypes as psychical contents is that they carry properties of all humanity as something whole. However, archetypes, as images of human’s natural programs and manipulation modes from the ancient book 山海經 (Shan Hai Jing), which is being decrypted by developers of the Catalog of human population, carry properties of only one of 293 subtypes of Homo sapiens, not of all humanity.
In conclusion, it should be noted that an archetype in that sense of the word, in which it is present in the culture of this civilization in general and in psychology in particular******, significantly differs in essence from the archetypes, by which human “software” is recorded, and by which, as researcher of 山海經 (Shan Hai Jing) Andrey Davydov found, all information in psyche of Homo sapiens is recorded.
All this combined differs very significantly from the existing understanding and interpretations of the word ‘archetype’, including from Jungian analytical psychology. Therefore, despite that in both cases the word ‘archetype’ means preimage (prototype), when it comes to the language of human “software” recorded in the ancient manuscript 山海經 (Shan Hai Jing), we prefer to use the word ‘image’ rather than ‘archetype’ in order to avoid misinterpretation. We use the word ‘archetype’ mainly in scientific articles and in definitions of Non-traditional Psychoanalysis (a new scientific direction in psychology, which is based solely on decryption of Shan Hai Jing) in order to show that we are discussing a preimage, a prototype, as the fundamental principle of existence and functioning of Homo sapiens.
Since images in the ancient manuscript 山海經 (Catalog of Mountains and Seas), which turned out to be the source of detailed descriptions of psychophysiological structure and functioning of 293 subtypes of biological type Homo sapiens, are archetypes as a fundamental principle, based on which any specific individual exists—these images (archetypes) are being decrypted by the founders of Non-traditional Psychoanalysis—Andrey Davydov and Olga Skorbatyuk—in order to create descriptions of subtype structures of Homo sapiens, while compiling the Catalog of human population.
* Archaic, archaistic (from the ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος – “ancient”) means original, initial, from the beginning; C. G. Jung defined it as “ancient character of psychical contents and functions.” It is considered that the quality of an image is archaic when the image has doubtless mythological parallels.
** Exact dating of the manuscript 山海經 (Shan Hai Jing, Catalog of Mountains and Seas) is still not determined, but some researchers date this ancient monument XXI-XX century BC.
*** Archetype (from the Greek arche – the beginning, and typos – an image) means preimage, an original image, an idea. In analytical psychology, founded by Carl Gustav Jung, an archetype means universal inborn psychical structures that make up contents of the collective unconscious. “That what we call instincts is a physiological motivation and is perceived by the senses. However, at the same time instincts manifest themselves in fantasies and often reveal their presence only by symbolic images. I called these manifestations—archetypes.” (Archetype and Symbol by C. G. Jung (Renaissance, 1991).)
**** From Carl Gustav Jung’s Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious to Individual Archetypal Patterns by A. Davydov and O. Skorbatyuk (HPA Press, 2014).
***** ἀρχή “the beginning” + τύπος “impact, footprint, imprint”, ἀρχέτυπον — preimage, ἀρχέτυπος “initial, original.”
****** For example, it is considered that archetypes are inborn conditions of intuition, i.e., those components of all experience, primeval forms of comprehension of the outside world, timeless schemes or bases, according to which thoughts and feelings of all humanity generate, and which originally include all the richness of mythological themes or collective sediment of historical past that is stored in people’s memory and makes up something common, immanently inherent to the human race and so on.