Thank you for your thoughtful response. I like the analogy of watching tracks in the sand to establish what has passed and watching the universe and determining God's nature from it. I feel like the more present we can become in nature the more divine it seems.

And yes, I mentioned Christ as an archetype but I think you're right a more holistic approach probably would be the holy trinity. I've also heard some suggest that Christ represents the masculine archetype and Mary the feminine, and obviously from a Jungian perspective we would all contain both Anima and Animus.

I like the Hindu cosmology too which suggests we are a fragment of God masked in human incarnation, obviously that would run counter the Christian understanding but I find that cosmology interesting too.