Myth Resources: a Database of All Things Mythological
Education / Gifts / Games / High School / Middle School
This classroom game, based on concepts from the Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell as presented in his groundbreaking book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, asks students to create their own hero quest. In...
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...
American Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) has taken his family to the jungles of Brazil, where he has been hired to design a dam. Unexpectedly, a native tribe abducts his son, Tommy (Charley Boorman). Bill...
Archive / Collection / College / Education / Resource
Although the courser doesn’t appear to be offered currently, we came across this interesting application of the Hero’s Journey to the orientation of college freshmen. “At California State University, Fresno, all incoming students take...
College / Education / High School / Resource
Boss Level uses the idea of “leveling up” a character in an video game to show teens and young adults HOW to HACK life’s greatest QUEST: their CAREER. Many teens are uniformed about HOW...
The “Star Wars: The Magic of Myth” exhibition closed at the National Air and Space Museum on January 31, 1999. This online exhibition will remain available for an indefinite period of time. For over...
