Cluster
The Teacher - Transmission, Doctrine, Inherited Wisdom
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.
- Fred Rogers9×
- Atticus Finch5×
- Mary Poppins4×
- Gandalf5×
- Yoda3×
- Hermione Granger5×
- Sherlock Holmes2×
- Tiresias1×
- Carl Sagan1×
- Maya Angelou3×
- Socrates3×
- Nelson Mandela7×
- Leslie Knope5×
- Javert1×
- Mahatma Gandhi2×
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg2×
- Confucius2×
- Pope John Paul II1×
- Oprah Winfrey2×
- Ted Lasso3×
- Albus Dumbledore4×
- Joseph Campbell2×
- Margaret Thatcher2×
- Professor X1×
- Coach Ken Carter1×
- Barack Obama1×
- Miranda Bailey1×
- Claire Dunphy1×
- Boromir1×
- Lyndon B. Johnson1×
- Colin Powell1×
- Martha Stewart1×
- Obi-Wan Kenobi2×
- Mr. Miyagi2×
- Athena1×
- Father Zosima1×
- Thich Nhat Hanh1×
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel1×
- Pope John XXIII1×
Archetypes across six systems
Hero's Journey
Transmits the method, gives the talisman
src · Vogler (2007); Campbell (1949) on the Wise Old Man
Tarot
V - the true teacher, the inherited rite
lit · Nichols (1980); Pollack (1980)