Washing Our Weapons in the Sea…Joseph Campbell Mythological RoundTable®

Reading Joe Campbell’s lectures that were transcribed for Transformations of Myth Through Time really gives the sense of being in a classroom with him. Coupled with the recordings of the lectures in the “Mythos” series – it becomes a complete experience! We will continue w
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A gem from the Marija Gimbutas collection

This image includes a photo that Marija Gimbutas used in The Language of the Goddess and includes the book editing aspects – note the caption with her handwritten edit as well as measurements of the image for proper setting for production of the book. Gimbutas wrote in The Langu
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Navajo Myth & Joseph Campbell

Last night was the monthly discussion group I lead on Joe Campbell and his work on mythology. We watched him give a lecture on the Navajo myth “Where the Two Came to Their Father”,  a warrior initiation myth. The myth itself was published by Maude Oakes who got the myth fr
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Quotes from the archives: Joseph Campbell

“Living myths are not mistaken notions, and they do not spring from books. They are not to be judged as true or false but as effective or ineffective, maturative or pathogenic…They are not invented but occur, and are recognized by seers and poets, to be then cultivated and
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