Joseph Campbell
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Mythologist and guide to the hero's journey. Campbell revealed the universal patterns in every culture's greatest stories - and how to live our own.
…But it was Freud who had the suggestion in his moses and monotheism that moses had been an officer in the Court of Akhenaten, that it was probably one of Akhenaten's Daughters who had pulled moses out of the water in the little basket of rushes and…
…with them to continue this monotheistic cult. But the difference between Akhenaten's so called monotheism and that of moses is that Akhenaten saw this mystery represented in the solar disk as informing all the gods and mythologies of the whole near east.…
…total distinction which has to be recognized if you're going to understand what's going on. This is a very handsome representation of Akhenaten in the Cairo Museum and you see here the symbols of his lordship here is the good shepherd the shepherd's crook…
…oh so familiar. That's the beautiful head the famous one in the Museum of Berlin. And here's the dear little family Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their three beautiful daughters with their artificially deformed heads and this is the solar disk of Akhenaten with…
…little family Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their three beautiful daughters with their artificially deformed heads and this is the solar disk of Akhenaten with its rays of blessing each ray terminating in the hand of blessing this dear little family. We have a…
…of blessing this dear little family. We have a family prayer now and god will come to us. Here is the Tutankhamun. Now Akhenaten had no sons only these three lovely little daughters and here's one of his daughters and the young prince whom she married…
…here's one of his daughters and the young prince whom she married who is called tutank Amun, that is to say as soon as Akhenaten died the Amun Priesthood took over again and the young pharaoh was again of the Amun Cult. However we have the solar disk…
…in these heroic mythologies. Now we come to ramses Ii. If moses was, as Freud suggests a member of the Court of Akhenaten, then the exodus must have taken place around 1358. This is the death of Akhenaten. That's the earliest date anybody's ever proposed…
…suggests a member of the Court of Akhenaten, then the exodus must have taken place around 1358. This is the death of Akhenaten. That's the earliest date anybody's ever proposed for the exodus. In the book of exodus, the pharaoh who is impugned there is…
…goddess whom we saw already in 7000 BC at the chateau huyuk. And now I come to another matter. Just at the time of Akhenaten, That's 1377 to 1358 or so, the indo Europeans are invading India, and this is the beginning of a total transformation of the…