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The masculine initiator was described by Jung as "a figure of the same sex corresponding to the father-imago.the mana-personality s a dominant of the collective unconscious, the recognized archetype of the mighty man in the form of hero, chief, magician, medicine-man, saint, the ruler of men and spirits." : 226–7 Similarly, "the wise Old Woman figure represented by Hecate or the Crone.the Great Mother" stood for an aspect of the mother-imago. In the case of a man, it manifests itself as a masculine initiator and guardian (an Indian guru), a wise old man, a spirit of nature and so forth. In the dreams of a woman this centre is usually personified as a superior female figure – a priestess, sorceress, earth mother, or goddess of nature or love. If an individual has wrestled seriously and long enough with the anima (or animus) problem, so that he, or she, is no longer partially identified with it, the unconscious again changes its dominant character and appears in a new symbolic form representing the Self, the innermost nucleus of the personality. The Wise Old Woman and Man, as what he termed Mana or supraordinate personalities, stood for that wholeness of the self: "the mother ("Primordial Mother" and " Earth Mother") as a supraordinary personality.as the 'self'." : 226 Thus, beginning with the intermediate position of " anima or animus.just as the latter have a higher position in the hierarchy than the shadow, so wholeness lays claim to a position and a value superior," still. In Carl Jung's thought, the individuation process was marked by a sequence of archetypes, each acquiring predominance at successive stages, and so reflecting what he termed an ascending psychic scale or "hierarchy of the unconscious". The Wise Old Woman, or helpful old woman, "is a well-known symbol in myths and fairy tales for the wisdom of the eternal female nature." The Wise Old Man, "or some other very powerful aspect of eternal masculinity" is her male counterpart. In Jungian psychology, the Wise Old Woman and the Wise Old Man are archetypes of the collective unconscious.