Whereas in the ancient world one could speak of two mythologies -- the mythology of the people staying in the village, doing as they were told, guarded by the village compound and the village gods,...

Creative mythology, then, is the rendition of images, of life, of poetic statements, of the orders that you perceive underlying the purposes of the world in terms of your experience. — Joseph Campbell In this...

Hermes is the lord of the road to rebirth. He is the one who meets the soul at death and guides the path to eternal life of one kind or another. In that way, he...

In Series II.1 Joseph Campbell provides a "brief history of World Mythology" by introducing us to the functions of Mythology and how the functions differ from East to West. Lectures include an interpretation of the...

I suppose if you were to try to invent two peoples at opposite poles of any spectrum you chose, Chinese and Hindus would be perfectly good candidates for the opposition. [...] Think of the Indian...