The Mask of God: Creative Mythology by Joseph Campbell
With both a B.A. and an M.A. from Columbia University, Joseph Campbell has studied in both Paris and Munich and taught at the Canterbury School and Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of a plethora of books on myth, anthropology, Jung, and the collective unconscious. Creative Mythology comes to us as the fourth book in a four part series that explores the mythologies of different peoples and times to show the common transcendent phenomenon of the story and its participant. In this book we learn not about the mythology of a people or a time, but about the mythology of the individual.
"When the individual has had an experience of [their] own...and if [ones] realization has been of a certain depth and import, [their] communication will have the value and force of living myth (Campbell, 1988. p. 4)."
Creative Mythology offers readers a wide variety of myths from a overabundance of resources packaged neatly together completely with the omnipotent knowledge of Joseph Campbell.
References:
Campbell, J. (1968). The mask of God, volume one: Primitive mythology. New York: Penguin Books.
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