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Cluster

The Teacher - Transmission, Doctrine, Inherited Wisdom

Stage · IntegratedAffect · Head · FearStance · Toward

The lineage-bearer. Hands forward ritual, doctrine, method. Wisdom as tradition rather than as discovery.

Retained as distinct from Sage-Magician because transmission is a specific function. Overlap named; merge declined with reason.

Exemplars by system

The same cluster rendered through each tradition's figures. Read across — resonance is what survives the translation.

Hero's Journey

The Mentor
  • GandalfLiterature / Film (Tolkien)

    Bestower of wisdom and staff — walks the Hero to the threshold and no further. Vogler's canonical Mentor.

  • Obi-Wan KenobiFilm

    Hands over the saber, teaches the first lessons, steps aside in death — the Mentor's classic function-arc.

  • Mr. MiyagiFilm (The Karate Kid)

    'Wax on, wax off' — mastery taught slantwise, through ritual.

Tarot

The Hierophant
  • Albus DumbledoreLiterature (Rowling)

    The transmitter of the tradition; keeper of the school's rites.

  • Father ZosimaLiterature (Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)

    The Orthodox elder — spiritual inheritance personified.

  • Obi-Wan KenobiFilm

    The keeper of an order; passes the lineage to the next hand.

Jungian

The Sage
  • GandalfLiterature (Tolkien)

    The wise one who walks among the small — the Sage who knows when to withhold what he knows.

  • YodaFilm

    Knowledge compressed to paradox and inverted syntax — the Sage stylized as cognitive exercise.

  • Hermione GrangerLiterature (Rowling)

    Scholarship as heroism — the Sage who reads ahead and is always right.

Enneagram

The Reformer
  • Atticus FinchLiterature (Lee)

    The upright inner standard carried into a crooked town — the One's ethical disposition translated into a legal defense.

  • Hermione GrangerLiterature (Rowling)

    The inner auditor — corrects teachers, classmates, and herself in equal measure. The One's discipline rendered as study habit.

  • Leslie KnopeTelevision (Parks & Rec)

    The reform impulse as civic love — every binder, every plan, the One's conviction that government can be made good.

Myers-Briggs

ENFJ - The Protagonist
  • Ted LassoTelevision

    Fe-dom leader who tends each soul in the locker room.

  • Leslie KnopeTelevision (Parks & Rec)

    The visionary mentor who summons a town to its better self.

  • Professor XFilm / Comics

    Pedagogue-mentor — gathers others around a Ni-held future.

Myers-Briggs

ESTJ - The Executive
  • Hermione Granger (as leader)Literature (Rowling)

    Te/Si — organizes the group, enforces the plan, gets the homework turned in.

  • Miranda BaileyTelevision (Grey's Anatomy)

    Hospital-floor commander — the order she imposes is the order the floor runs on.

  • Claire DunphyTelevision (Modern Family)

    The household run like a well-audited firm.

Exemplars in this cluster

Cross-system exemplars whose archetypal tags resolve here. Each links to a page showing how every tradition reads them.

Archetypes across six systems

Hero's Journey

Canonical
The Mentor

Transmits the method, gives the talisman

src · Vogler (2007); Campbell (1949) on the Wise Old Man

V

Tarot

Supported
The Hierophant

V - the true teacher, the inherited rite

lit · Nichols (1980); Pollack (1980)

Jungian

Moderate evidence
The Sage

Self cluster - wisdom shaped into doctrine

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Enneagram

Moderate evidence
The Reformer

Type 1 - moral authority; dual-home with Threshold-Guardian

ENFJ

Myers-Briggs

Moderate evidence
ENFJ - The Protagonist

Fe/Ni - natural pedagogue

ESTJ

Myers-Briggs

Moderate evidence
ESTJ - The Executive

Te/Si - institutional teacher