Myth Resources: a Database of All Things Mythological
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Joseph Campbell and celebrated artist, Angela Gregory, met while they were both living in Paris, studying at the Sorbonne. Author Nancy L. Penrose details the initial encounters between the two in her book A...
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The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the...
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A deeply thoughtful, deeply irreverent look at the mythology of play, Gods and Games ties together Joseph Campbell’s approach to myth and religion with Johan Huizinga’s view of our species as Homo ludens —...
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Author Comments: “Integrative Spirituality is written for persons who desire a spirituality that is informed by religious traditions, myth, Jungian depth psychology, contemplative yoga, and related modes of thought. As a synthetic thinker, I discuss...
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Synopsis: This examination of myths from around the world focuses on the role nature plays within mythology. Creation myths from myriad cultures recognized that life arose from natural elements, inextricably connecting human life to...
Synopsis: This examination of the heroic journey in world mythology casts the protagonist as a personification of nature–a “botanical hero” one might say–who begins the quest in a metaphorical seed-like state, then sprouts into...
More than an academic study of the rock band U2 and its fan community, Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2: A Love Story is a meditation...
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This story pulls you from the current time frame into a world of past lives and the discovery that the mythological personae of Poseidon, Medusa, Zeus, and others were those of people alive today. ...
An epic novel of love and adventure, The Paragon tells the story of Yeshua, the Nazarene’s journey to the East during the years missing from Biblical accounts. Where others have suggested such a journey,...
What the song is to the songbird, the myth of the hero is to the human being. Human hunter-foragers did not create the myth of the hero as a spontaneous act of artistry; they...
