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.
…of our own religion. Our religions have been interpreted to us in historical terms you know, the Jews did go through the red sea and Moses did climb the mountain and he got the law and he came down and he broke the tablets and he went up and got a…
…r o m a. Roma representing authoritarian discipline of the society, the primary mask and Amor the awakening of the antithetical mask. Moses and Hermes, Rome and love. Girod De borne, one of the great troubadours, defines love. The eyes are scouts of the…
…by us are different from things that are done by others, and that's another characteristic of this whole tradition that we're talking about. Moses now is not the hero, the tribe is the hero. This is a tribal mythology and with the only god of the…
…take a communion meal. Did you ever notice that? That's what happens there? And then from then on of course, Aaron is out and Moses is in the two roles. And so out of that tradition we have the same kind of thing that comes with the caliphs of…
…kinds of power going. These are the twin heroes. You have a similar thing in the early part of exodus, where you have Moses and Aaron, the warrior chief and the priest. But at a certain important moment the warrior chief had the higher revelation he…
…of them is Hermes and the other is moses. These are the two ways of reading symbolic forms: Hermes, the hermetic symbolic way. Moses the literal, prosaic, historical way. There are two aspects and take the one you want. This is a fruit of this great…
…basket of rushes, and that with the collapse of ignaten's court in amarna because when he died the whole thing was wiped out then Moses, who was a believing minister in the court, had picked up a group of working people in the delta area and left Egypt…