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.
…man's library. There you find Shakespeare's Lear King Lear with his three daughters and you find at the end the story of Vortigern, the last of the British Kings who actually invited Angus and horsa into Britain to defend him against the picts and the…
…specific characters of the author's time involved particularly a man named Ambrosius, who seems to have been largely responsible for overthrowing Vortigern, who was the traitor to England and so forth and so on. The story of merlin is briefly of a boy…
…birth. Merlin could appear either as a boy or as an old wise man. He, as a little boy, uttered a prophecy to King Vortigern, the last of the British Kings, that his empire was going to collapse. And he described it in the way of an allegory: you…
…dragons, a white and a red dragon. Well these are the two races that are contending, and merlin brought it about later that Vortigern should be defeated. Then his next work was to produce the King who would now govern the happy new world. This was going…