Guru — Symbol Layer

This is an Ur-Role within Symbol Layer, a foundational role that resists full specification. For the overview framing, see Ur-Roles.

Guru

The guru is a deep archetype that, like other Ur-roles, is difficult to encompass. This figure serves as a central element in traditional South Asian civilization and later appears as an important element in Western civilization as well. It represents a guide, a mirror, a level of attainment, and an instantiation of something both liminal and fundamental in the universe. While the surface level behaviors would likely be well represented in the training data, the point that the archetype points to something far beyond those patterns makes outlining it as a role primitive spec deeply problematic, and thus puts it beyond the scope of the Symbol Layer role primitive framework.