Chthonic Adumbration

Chthonic (from deep below the earth) entities in the Hellenic tradition represent the characterized-as-feminine primordial origins of mankind. The story of Medusa or the Caduceus symbol are examples which represent mankind advancing via a separation from these origins. We grow, it would seem to be implied, by rejecting our passion-laden, organo-centric natures and moving toward tekhne and logos; by adopting, perhaps, the Apollonian attitude (to borrow a Nietzsche-ism).
It is hard not to see the continuation of these ideas into a modern age characterized by technocratic post-enlightenment rationalism. In my continuing exploration of man's relationship to his self-knowledge, I find this viewpoint rather interesting. We cannot, in spite of all efforts to the contrary, excise our core passions or the marks of our low-born primate ancestry, and we worsen matters most often when, in protest, we deny the existence of such human traits. Ultimately, to navigate belief is to contend with passion, emotion, self-importance, and every manner of vagary, regardless of how objective we may claim to be. We can never escape our natures, nor devolve ourselves to return to some imaginary earthen utopia. We carry, therefore, a shadowy haze of both great and terrible human-ness with us forever: a chthonic adumbration to which we are all, in some sense, subservient.