Detailed view for the Book: Occidental Mythology

Title:

Occidental Mythology
 

Authors:

Genres:

Religion
Philosophy
Folklore & Mythology

Series:

Masks of God, the
3

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1991-01-01 Penguin USA  

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Blurb: 
A systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship, and literature of the western world. The Masks of God is a four-volume study of world religion and myth that stands as one of Joseph Campbell"s masterworks. On completing it (in this volume in 1968), he wrote: Its main result for me has been the confirmation of a thought I have long and faithfully entertained: of the unity of the race of man, not only in its biology, but also in its spiritual history, which has everywhere unfolded in the manner of a single symphony, with its themes announced, developed, amplified and turned about, distorted, reasserted, and today, in a grand fortissimo of all sections sounding together, irrestibly advancing to some kind of mighty climax, out of which the next great movement will emerge.