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“The Neanderthal graves and bear sanctuaries, our earliest certain evidences of religious ritual, point to an attempt to cope with the imprint of death.”

Book:The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology

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The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology

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Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell was an American writer, scholar, and mythologist, renowned for his studies of world mythology. His work, 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces', has had a profound impact on modern culture, widely used in literature, film, and psychology fields. more

“For the human mind in its polarity of the male and female modes of experience, in its passages from infancy to adulthood and old age, in its toughness and tenderness, and in its continuing dialogue with the world, is the ultimate mythogenetic zone -the creator and destroyer, the slave and yet the master, of all the gods.”

Mind Religion Brain Evolution Myth Evolutionary Psychology Sapiens Homo

Book:The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology

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“...we are united to those immortal images of initiatory might, through the sacramental operation of which, man, since the beginning of his day on earth, has dispelled the terrors of his phenomenality and won through to the all-transfiguring vision of immortal being.”

Life Mind Death Psychology Myth Origin

Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

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“The crux of the curious difficulty lies in the fact that our conscious views of what life ought to be seldom correspond to what life really is.”

Life Mind Death Suffering Psychology Myth Origin

Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces