c/joseph-campbell
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.
…won't go into now but both of them are very convincing arguments. In any case, it is in the period of Darius the Great Darius I, about 525 to 486 BC, that with the establishment of the great reach of the Persian Empire, that this religion becomes the…
…who restored the hebrews to Jerusalem after the babylonian captivity and so forth. Isaiah Ii celebrates Cyrus the great, the antecedent of Darius, as the almost messiah of the lord jehovah, and jehovah had been his inspiration and so forth and so on. So…
…Confucius dates 551 to 478 BC. Aeschylus dates 525 to 456 BC these are all contemporaries. And then in Persia, in the near East, Darius the great 521 to 468 BC. These men are contemporaries and I'm going to say that they are the signals for the spirit…
…view. Now I just want to say a word about Christianity. This is a period. Here we have Alexander the great, 331. He defeats Darius Iii and becomes the master of that whole world, of all these cultures. All of them come pell mell together and you have…
…the occident by the levant with Persian attack on the greeks, then Alexander's answer and he regarded it as his answer to Darius and then in the period of the hellenistic seleucid monarchs the maccabees resist the correlation of their god with jove and…
…the tao in society. 500 the buddha in India, Confucius in china. So now we come to the near east, and this is the date of Darius I I think it's 523 to 468 that he was the master. And what is the idea here? The idea is of the emperor as incarnation…
…This is a roman mosaic. That's another kind of mind. And what's he doing? 332, the battle of Arbella. He is defeating Darius Iii, a young, brilliant soldier his father was a great military man designs military methods that just went way beyond what anyone…
…the tao in society. 500 the buddha in India, Confucius. In china. So now we come to the near east, and this is the date of Darius I, I think it's 523 to 468 that he was the master. And what is the idea here? The idea is of the emperor as…
…This is a roman mosaic, that's another kind of mind. And what's he doing? 332, the battle of Arbella. He is defeating Darius Iii, a young, brilliant soldier. His father was a great military man. He designs military methods that just went way beyond what…