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.
…Greek Deities lost stature and in Aeschylus the concept of zeus becomes totally transformed into something much more in the oriental style. Zeus is air, zeus is earth, zeus is the worlds between, zeus is all things. This is the brahman idea, the idea of…
…done that. You know what happened to zeus when he didn't behave decently. The greeks despised him. There's that story of Prometheus. Zeus pinned him to a rock because he cheated zeus once in favor of man. And a little company of ambassadors comes and…
…transubstantiated because it is already the divine wine. Now the story of the birth of Dionysus is born from the thigh of zeus. Zeus had a way of giving birth to children. He swallowed Athena's mother when he knew that she was pregnant and then, of…
…transubstantiated because it is already the divine wine. Now the story of the birth of Dionysus is born from the thigh of zeus. Zeus had a way of giving birth to children. He swallowed Athena's mother when he knew that she was pregnant and then of…
…similar thing now with Dionysus Semele. Dionysus mother had conceived of zeus and she had the indiscretion to boast of this to Hera, Zeus wife and Hera said: yes darling, but zeus has not revealed himself to you in the same majesty with which he has…