Transformations of Myth Through Time

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Summary: Transformations of Myth Through Time is Must Read/See
Review: Read this if you can't afford the tapes of this excellent PBS series (though it gets a little dry in some spots)! It is a (now deceased) esteemed archeologists's comparisons of myth with the actual excavations that he and other archeologists have made. He can validate or repudiate claims made by some religions that their version is the best, only, or earliest version, and can also show how some myths evolved from actual real events or places. Once you are done reading this, go ahead and read the older work The Women's Encylopedia of Myths and Secrets (written by Barbara G. Walker), another heavily referenced work, which looks into the literature of the ancients, right on through to the Middle Ages, highly exposing information that has been supressed by later religions, politicians, and peoples.

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Summary: This one also ties for the most important book I've read:
Review: This was another of those synchronist events that happens in the form of the written word. Actually, I got ahold of these videos through my local library at a time when I was searching for questions instead of answers. This book is a tour de force of the mythological evolution of the human species. Campbell addresses what the elemantary ideas of myth are and how they present themselves uniformly throughout all cultures, historical and present, of the world equally. The thesis--there is only one mythology that is inflected in various folk manifestations, comes across beautifully. Campbell will challenge you to rethink about religion and mythology and what it means to you as a human being. This one is a must read.

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Summary: This one also ties for the most important book I've read:
Review: This was another of those synchronist events that happens in the form of the written word. Actually, I got ahold of these videos through my local library at a time when I was searching for questions instead of answers. This book is a tour de force of the mythological evolution of the human species. Campbell addresses what the elemantary ideas of myth are and how they present themselves uniformly throughout all cultures, historical and present, of the world equally. The thesis--there is only one mythology that is inflected in various folk manifestations, comes across beautifully. Campbell will challenge you to rethink about religion and mythology and what it means to you as a human being. This one is a must read.

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Summary: Thirteen essays of first level!
Review: To read this book is a real proud . The multiple annotations and clever observations of this renowned master of the mythology make us transport immediately to this unusual universe He makes an amazing journey from the origins of the myth in the distant past to familiar European medieval legends .
The fertile wisdom and powerful intelligence of this extraordinary thinker is a real invitation to enter and cross the line for knowing one of the most ambitious essays ever written .
Thirteen chapters all the way depicted with visible commitment are :
In the beginning :Origins of the man and Myth.
Where People Lived Legends: American Indian Myths.
And the Washed Our Weapons in the Sea: Gods and Goddesses of the Neolithic Period.
Pharaoh' s Rule : Egypt , the exodus and the Myth of Osiris .
The Sacred Source : the Perennial Philosophy of the East.
The Way to Enlightenment: Buddhism.
From Id to the Ego in the orient: Kundalini Yoga , Part I.
From Psychology to Spirituality : Kundalini Yoga , Part II
The Descent to Heaven: The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
From Darkness to Light: The Mistery Religions of Ancient Greece.
Where There Was No Path: Arthurian Legends and the Western Way.
A Noble Heart : the Courtly Love of Tristan and Isolde.
In Search of the Holy Grail: The Parzival Legend.
The material of myth is the material of our life , the material of our body , and the material of our environment , and a living , vital mythology deals with these in terms that are appropriate to the nature of the knowledge of the time .
There are two types of human beings . There is the animal human who is practical and there is the human being who is susceptible to the allure of beauty which is divinely superfluous . This is the distinction . This is the first little gem of a spiritual concern and need , of which the animals know nothing.
The illustrations are of first order and support the text in a very helpful way .
Do not think it over and buy this supreme golden book.