Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume 1
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Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume 1
Joseph Campbell
Essays
James Mustich
Aug 8, 2018
The sense that the world has a purpose more profound than its mere existence, and that we ourselves have a significance separate from our day-to-day experience, is the source of all myth. An inspiring guide to the landscape of insights that myths embody, Campbell leads us by the hand down its roads past creation, birth, love, and death, and toward eternity. He opens our ears to voices that call across cultures and centuries, singing life’s secrets and surprises. The Masks of God is a four-volume comprehensive survey of his life’s work, a stimulating treasury of learning, wisdom, and wonder. Each of the four books that constitute The Masks of God is a fertile field of rumination, irrigated with an endless stream of mythological invention. Primitive Mythology examines the centrality of the human life cycle to the shape and substance of our earliest attempts at meaning making.
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