Of Myth & Mythography

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Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers: The seminal PBS series on world mythology! "Dazzling and still potently relevant" - San Francisco Chronicle. "Fascinating" - The New York Times. "Compelling" - The Wall Street Journal. "Stirring and elevating" - Los Angeles Times.

These stimulating conversations between inspirational scholar Joseph Campbell and veteran journalist Bill Moyers created a national sensation when they first aired on public television. In lively, expansive dialogues, the two men discuss how myths hold the key to understanding human experience. They may vary superficially from culture to culture, but at their deepest level they all reveal the path to self-fulfillment, social integration, and ultimately, transcendence.

Joseph Campbell taught for nearly 40 years at Sarah Lawrence College; he authored and edited scores of books and inspired generations of scholars and artists. Journalist Bill Moyers distinguished himself at Newsday, NBC, CBS, and PBS; his many honors include lifetime achievement Emmy and Peabody awards. Join Campbell and Moyers as they touch on topics as diverse as world religions, marriage, the virgin birth, and pop culture. Filmed at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch and New York's American Museum of Natural History, this series fires the imagination and the intellect. NOTE: Contains nudity and violent images.

• Episode 1: The Hero's Adventure
  Whether it's Buddha, Moses, Jesus, or the Knights of the Round Table, the heroes in every mythic tradition undertake the same archetypal journey from departure through fulfillment and return.
  
  
• Episode 2: The Message of the Myth
  At their deepest level, myths teach us how to live-with ourselves, with others, and with the mystery at the heart of life.
  
  
• Episode 3: The First Storytellers
  All of our culture's rituals have their roots in the myths of ancient hunters, who told stories and performed rituals to bring their lives into harmony with nature.
  
  
• Episode 4: Sacrifice and Bliss
  Like a seed that dies only to be reborn, the archetypal hero must undergo the death of the ego to achieve new life and the revelation of bliss.
  
  
• Episode 5: Love and the Goddess
  From kama to agape to courtly romance, Campbell explores the mythology of love and the role of the female as the giver of life and form.
  
  
• Episode 6: Masks of Eternity
  All cultures create "masks"-names and images for God-to serve as metaphors for inexpressible transcendence, the being beyond all being and the idea beyond all thought.

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PROLOGUE:

THE MONOMYTH

1. Myth and Dream 3
2. Tragedy and Comedy 25
3. The Hero and the God 30
4. The World Navel 40

PART I:

THE ADVENTURE OF THE HERO

CHAPTER I:

DEPARTURE

1. The Call to Adventure 49
2. Refusal of the Call 59
3. Supernatural Aid 69
4. The Crossing of the First Threshold 77
5. The Belly of the Whale 90

CHAPTER II:

INITIATION

1. The Road of Trials 97
2. The Meeting with the Goddess 109
3. Woman as the Temptress 120
4. Atonement with the Father 126
5. Apotheosis 149
6. The Ultimate Boon 172

CHAPTER III:

RETURN

1. Refusal of the Return 193
2. The Magic Flight 196
3. Rescue from Without 207
4. The Crossing of the Return Threshold 217
5. Master of the Two Worlds 229
6. Freedom to Live 238

CHAPTER IV:

THE KEYS

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PART II:

THE COSMOGONIC CYCLE

CHAPTER I:

EMANATIONS

1. From Psychology to Metaphysics 255
2. The Universal Round 261
3. Out of the Void—Space 269
4. Within Space—Life 273
5. The Breaking of the One into the Manifold 281
6. Folk Stories of Creation 289

CHAPTER II:

THE VIRGIN BIRTH

1. Mother Universe 297
2. Matrix of Destiny 302
3. Womb of Redemption 308
4. Folk Stories of Virgin Motherhood 311

CHAPTER III:

TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE HERO

1. The Primordial Hero and the Human 315
2. Childhood of the Human Hero 318
3. The Hero as Warrior 334
4. The Hero as Lover 342
5. The Hero as Emperor and as Tyrant 345
6. The Hero as World Redeemer 349
7. The Hero as Saint 354
8. Departure of the Hero 356

CHAPTER IV:

DISSOLUTIONS

1. End of the Microcosm 365
2. End of the Macrocosm 374

EPILOGUE:

MYTH AND SOCIETY

1. The Shapeshifter 381
2. The Function of Myth, Cult, and Meditation 382
3. The Hero Today 387

The mythological hero, setting forth from his commonday hut or castle, is lured, carried away, or else voluntary proceeds, to the threshold of adventure.

There he encounters a shadow presence that guards the passage. The hero may defeat or conciliate this power and go alive into the kingdom of the dark (brother-battle, dragon battle; offering, charm) or be slain by the opposition and descend in death (dismemberment, crucifixion).

Beyond the threshold, then, the hero journeys through a world of unfamiliar yet strangely intimate forces, some of which severely threaten him (tests), some of which give magical aid (helpers).

When he arrives at the nadir of the mythological round, he undergoes a supreme ordeal and gains his reward. The triumph may be represented as the hero's sexual union with the goddess-mother of the world (sacred marriage), his recognition by the father-creator (father atonement), his own divination (apotheosis), or again--if the powers have remained unfriendly to him--his theft of the boon he came to gain (bride-theft, fire theft); intrinsically it is an expansion of consciousness and therewith of being (illumination, transfiguration, freedom).

The final work is that of the return. If the powers have blessed the hero, he now sets forth under their protection (emissary); if not, he flees and is pursued (transformation flight, obstacle flight). At the return threshold the transcendental powers must remain behind; the hero re-emerges from the kingdom of dread (return, resurrection. The boon that he brings restores the world (elixir).

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