WORLD MYTHOLOGY
Roy Willis, General Editor
Edited by the Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, this book is an authoritative and wide-ranging collection of many mythological traditions.
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"The task of the modern human being is to interiorize mythic symbology;…to comprehend, in short, that all mythological images are aspects of your own immediate experience." Robert Walter, Foreword
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"Myth cannot but be all-embracing, cosmic in its range. Thus, myth registers and conveys meaning in the deepest sense."
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"All myths are transparent to transcendence: that is, they are psychic metaphors, revelatory of universal axioms." Robert Walter, Foreword
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