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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
(sh.itjust.works)
A fascinating analysis of the themes and motifs common to the mythologies and oral traditions of a variety of ancient cultures. Campbell delves into mythology in search of some perennial or fundamental truth.
Wow. I’m shook that you chose this passage. It was literally my favorite passage in the first portion of the book.
My jaw dropped when I read this and I took a photo of it and stored it in my phone. I have an album of excerpts for quick reference and this was one of them. Love that this resonated with you as much as it did for me.
And yes… all this through Lemmy makes it seem like it is truly the first step in our collective heroes journey. We just have to return to the centralized lands to tell of the federated and decentralized lands ;)
Haha, no way! It's an incredibly beautiful piece of writing.
I must admit that I've been thinking similarly about Lemmy being a sort of collective hero's journey. We shall one day free the masses from the iron grip of the corporate internet. Glad to be alone together with you fine people :)
Holy smokes, thanks for sharing this book, it's next on my list to grab for a read. Recently, I've been really interested in following the development of culture, civilization, mythology, and religion, and this book seems to really drill down into some of those nearly-universal themes (at least, if the blurbs I'm reading are accurate) like the Hero's Journey and the cycle of world/universe creation and destruction. I just wanted to chime in, late as it may be after you made the initial post, and say thank you for sharing
Wow, it's good to see you're still hanging around here! Couldn't recommend the book any more highly, lots of fascinating scholarship and the prose is a joy to read