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.
…As you all know it was the Persian Cyrus 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…
…and a blessing to mankind. But the law is not to go to the gentiles. It comes up a couple of Times, I think in Isaiah once or twice but normally the attitude is: this is our law. Well now here is a second stage in the development of this mythology.…