Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhautible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

Joseph Campbell (writer)

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Myth

Author

Joseph Campbell (writer)

Source

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Genre

Sociology

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Definition

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Writer

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United States

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Citation

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Pantheon Books, 1949, prologue.

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