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Title: The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology by Joseph Campbell ISBN: 0140194428 Publisher: Arkana Pub. Date: November, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: The Great Orient
Comment: In this book Campbell has covered the entire field
from Ancient Egypt via pre-Buddhist, Buddhist & post-Buddhist
India to China, Japan & Tibet.
Apart from a multitude of references, citations and amusing
legends illustrating his nominal concern (Mythologies)-the
center of this book (a part of "The Masks of God" tetralogy)
lies elsewhere. Essentailly, all Campbell's work (and "Oriental
Mythology", with its chapter 1 "Signatures of the four great
domains", is a particularly good example) is a predominantly
Jungian (with a few Freudian insights assimilated) comparative
analysis of the dominant traditional mindsets.
For instance, he sharply differentiates between two
"Western" archetypes (Jung again) & "loyalties":
1.Promethean hero-the Greco-Roman legacy
of ever-expanding and conquering being
2.Job-the Levantine legacy transmuted into Christianity
Or, "Eastern" loyalties of:
3.Yogi- ascetic absorbed in transcosmic cataleptic trance, as the "trademark" of India
4.Sage-essentially the Chinese ideal of harmony ("flowing" with Tao, or realizing
one's tao in society (Confucians))
Be as it may, this is a treasure trove of ideas, associations & insights.
I haven't encountered any richer or profounder work of late.
And, as a ghastly surprise, book ends with factual report on Chinese
communist invasion of Tibet (mutilations, castrations, sterilizations,
public executions & humiliations), as all the horrors from the "Bardo Thodhol"
have descended on our earthly reality. A horrendous reminder that
mythologies are not dead, dated nor irrelevant.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing grace
Comment: This is the most impressive book I've ever read about mythology.Just buy it, and let it introduce you in a new world,full of spiritual knowledge.
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Title: The Masks of God: Creative Mythology by Joseph Campbell ISBN: 0140194401 Publisher: Arkana Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology by Joseph Campbell ISBN: 014019441X Publisher: Arkana Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Mythos Books) by Joseph Campbell ISBN: 0691017840 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 1972 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers, Betty Sue Flowers ISBN: 0385418868 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Myths to Live by by Joseph Campbell ISBN: 0140194614 Publisher: Arkana Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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