Occidental Mythology (the Masks of God, Volume 3)

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The third volume in Campbell’s monumental four-volume series, The Masks of God, traces the mythological underpinnings of Western religions: the shift from female-centered to male-dominated mythologies[more below]

  • Author: Campbell, Joseph
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Page Count: 560
  • Publish Date: January 18 2022
  • ISBN10: 1608687295
  • Language: English
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The third volume in Campbell’s monumental four-volume series, The Masks of God, traces the mythological underpinnings of Western religions: the shift from female-centered to male-dominated mythologies

Once upon a time in the West, the focal figure of all mythology and worship was the bountiful goddess Earth. She reigned supreme as the mother and nourisher of life and as the receiver of the dead for rebirth. As Joseph Campbell here elucidates, she was more than a symbol of fertility; she was “a metaphysical symbol: the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die.”

How, when, and why did this change? Campbell shows how “the mythologies of the goddess mother were radically transformed, reinterpreted, and in large measure even suppressed by those suddenly intrusive patriarchal warrior tribesmen whose traditions have come down to us chiefly in the Old and New Testaments and in the myths of Greece.”

He goes on to describe the mythological underpinnings of Western religions — Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism — and their historical influence on one another. No one who cares about history, mythology, religion, or past or current events in Western civilization can do without this venerable yet perennially fresh analysis.

Author: Joseph Campbell
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 01/18/2022
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.7lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781608687299
Language: English

Author

Campbell, Joseph

Binding

ISBN10

1608687295

ISBN13

9781608687299

Page Count

560

Published Date

January 18 2022

Language

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