Words and phrases derived from Greek mythology

thumb|250px|Narcissus (Caravaggio)|Narcissus (1597–99) by [[Caravaggio; the man in love with his own reflection]]

concept of psychoanalytic theory; a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and hatred for the same-sex parent

paradigm that living organisms interact with their surroundings in a self-regulating system

thumb|Silver coin from Knossos displaying the 7-course "Classical" design to represent the Labyrinth,

tendon at the back of the lower leg

generally defined as the girls's desire to possess the father and to compete with her mother for the possession of her parent

mythic artifact

heel of the mythical Greek hero Achilles which is his only weak spot

classical element in philosophy and cosmology symbolising universe

mythical apple

idiom deriving from Greek mythology

Latin phrase

in cosmogony, the primordial state of the universe or cosmos

facial feature where the double curve of a human upper lip is said to resemble the bow of Cupid, the Roman god of erotic love

incestuous sexual desire that a mother has towards her child

hypothesis that multicellular life, understood as a superorganism, is suicidal, and that microbial-triggered mass extinctions are attempts to return the Earth to a microbial-dominated state

laser cooling technique

Gaianism is an earth-centered philosophical, holistic, and spiritual belief that shares expressions with earth religions and paganism while not identifying exclusively with any specific one. The term describes a philosophy and ethical worldview which, though not necessarily religious, implies a transpersonal devotion to earth as a superorganism. Practitioners of Gaianism are called Gaians (or Gaianists).