I.A: Prologue (Historical Atlas of World Mythology (Digital

I.A: Prologue (Historical Atlas of World Mythology (Digital Edition) Book 1)

In this first title in the release of the Historical Atlas of World Mythology â€” Digital Edition, Joseph Campbell begins his exploration of the development of myth across continents and millenniums. In the prologue, "The Mythological Dimension," he introduces his theme: the ways in which myth has served both a universal, unifying tool across cultures, and as a distinguishing factor between them.

The second half of this ebook is made up of creation myths â€” familiar and unfamiliar â€” from every inhabited corner of the the world, from Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, and North, Central, and South America, which bring marvelously to light the burden of Campbell's thesis.

Joseph Campbell's multivolume Historical Atlas of World Mythology, his magnum opus, marked the culmination of his brilliant career as scholar, writer, teacher, and one of the foremost interpreters of our most sacred traditions.

Campbell described his work as an attempt to tell humankind's "One Great Story" â€” our saga of spiritual awakening and the subsequent development of the many different mythological perspectives that have shaped us throughout time. His central theme is that our seemingly disparate spiritual traditions are neither discrete nor unique, but rather each is simply an "ethnic manifestation" of one or another of those "elemental ideals" that have forever transfixed the human psyche.
Country USA
Manufacturer Joseph Campbell Foundation
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-09-18
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781611780079

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Joseph Campbell Foundation
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-09-18
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781611780079

I.A: Prologue (Historical Atlas of World Mythology (Digital Edition) Book 1)

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