Interesting Find

“If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie. But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, then it’s true. Myth is the penultimate truth.”

—	Joseph Campbell, from a 1986 Houston Chronicle interview by Leslie Sowers: “Cultures Linked by Man’s Ideas, Mythologist Says.”

Most excellent visualization of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey/monomyth, which he argues is the basic pattern underlying narratives all over the wide, wide world.

“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.” From The Hero with a Thousand Faces