Random is such a good word

archetype- repeated over, and over, and over, and over.... Usually a story and/or symbol that has influenced everything after to be modeled after it.
----fugitive archetype sometimes called Cain archetype

apocryphal: of questionable authorship or authenticity; erroneous or fictitious
Story of the Wandering Jew: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew

etiology: how a thing came to be the way it is

Jacob's name was changed to Israel when an angel wrestles with him-- There's that whole "literal"/symbolic/misprision thing again. How does one interpret that? It seems pretty likely to me that the angel could have just zapped him with a lightening bolt or something.