The traces of cultures’ roots often run deeper than may be initially presumed. Surely, cultural markers such as race, group identity, political traditions and language indeed offer some initial insights regarding how much can be a common belief, representation or code of conduct really tell us about how far contemporary cultures go back in time. However, when faced with the task of tracing humanity’s clues in search of the legacies of cultures, a reality must be taken into primary consideration: our species is much more malleable than its own cultures would have us believe. This is why, for example, in the relatively short time spam by evolutionary standards of half a millennium, our species has come from placing most of its hopes and dreams in the hands of a deity to threaten its own existence through nuclear power. Despite our own cultural and racial malleability, which all have transformed the way our species acts and looks like throughout the ages, we humans have insisted on crafting stories that speak about our nature and that of the world that surrounds us. And, regardless of how humanity has changed over its own history, we have remained insistent to describe through symbology our acts and beliefs. Therefore, this paper aims to pursue the alternative of tracing cultural heritage through the means of tracing one specific aspect of our behavior represented though symbolic means: ethics. By exploring constants in mythological representations of the negative consequences of human actions through a Jungian and psycho-evolutionary perspective, this paper aims to embark on a journey from Ancient Egypt to Medieval Europe exploring mythological incarnations of torment and punishment as means to explore how far cultural heritage can really be traced in history.