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Original Title:	Primitive Mythology (The Masks of God, #1)
ISBN:	0140194436 (ISBN13: 9780140194432)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Masks of God #1

The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology (The Masks of God #1)

Joseph Campbell

Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

Rating: 4.27 | 3716 Users | 115 Reviews

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I wish I could like Campbell's Masks of God series more than I do. I keep having the same experience -- I pick one up and read 15 pages that are magnificent, electrifying, and truly brilliant in their scope and perspicacity.

Then the long digressions accumulate and I start to lose the line of his analysis. He leaps hither and yon without much coherence or organization. It's almost as if he's a collector with an impressive set of artifacts, and he's hardly done showing you one before he's showing you the next. You kind of feel for him because he loves them all so much, and each individual story is great, but he needs to slow down a little.

A single chapter in this book on prehistoric mythology will contain lengthy references to the Vedas, Hawaiian mythologies, stories of the Blackfoot Indians, archaeological findings in Peru, and the love songs of the Troubadours. Why didn't he save the material on the Vedas for Volume 2 on Oriental Mythology? And wouldn't the bits on Arthurian Legend been more at home in Volume 3 Occidental Mythology?

These books are very hard to read and I wish he'd had a co-author or a draconian editor who had forced him to stick to the schema he obviously laid out. He can't seem to see the trees for the forest.

Even with all the jumping around there are moments of breathtaking brilliance, like his sweeping characterization of Neolithic goddess figurines. The book is worth its price simply for the brief Prologue alone, which is simply electrifying.

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Title	:	The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology (The Masks of God #1)
Author	:	Joseph Campbell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1991 by Penguin (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Mythology. Nonfiction. Religion. History. Philosophy. Anthropology. Psychology

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Staggering book. In a similar vein to Frazer's Golden Bough, an attempt to find underlying mechanisms to the various world mythologies. Campbell examines the prevelence of some very specific motifs, across all varieties of unconnected cultures: Ghosts, "voodoo dolls", the power of hair/nail clippings of victims in magic, the use of totem figures in hunting societies, and birth/rebirth gods in planting cultures. For myself, I was frustrated by some of the lengthy debate over whether Meso-American

Campbell is best known because of the PBS series The Power of Myth with Moyers that aired in 1988 and for his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces that influenced George Lucas of Star Wars fame and influential with many a writer, especially in speculative fiction. Primitive Mythology is the first part of his four-book series The Mask of God. This first book was published in 1959 and tried to incorporate then current findings in psychology (primarily Freudian and Jungian theories), archeology and

I wish I could like Campbell's Masks of God series more than I do. I keep having the same experience -- I pick one up and read 15 pages that are magnificent, electrifying, and truly brilliant in their scope and perspicacity. Then the long digressions accumulate and I start to lose the line of his analysis. He leaps hither and yon without much coherence or organization. It's almost as if he's a collector with an impressive set of artifacts, and he's hardly done showing you one before he's showing

A beautifully moving and poetic journey, to a time before time.My second Joseph Campbell, after The Hero with a Thousand faces.Here, we journey to the beginning of man and myth. Prepare to be wowed by stories of gory sacrifice, myths of toothed vaginas, the beginning of art, and connections of myth to psychology. Learn about the differences of a society based on the hunt versus those based on agriculture. Read this, and you'll have a more complete sense of your place, as a human, in society.It's

An excellent and promising opening to this four volume work, Primitive Mythology gets to work quickly, setting out its task and framing the importance of mythology, even (if not especially) for we who are of the time whose mythology is an absence of mythology. For despite centuries of philosophers and thinkers attempting to explicate Man as the rational animal, and the constructs based on the import and majesty of reason as the supreme aspect of human existence, it is myth that digs into the

In graduate school, when I asked my beloved mentor, Freudian/Lacanian David Wagenknecht about Carl Jung, his response was, "I dunno: a little too Joseph Campbell for me." There is no better or smarter human on earth than David and so I didn't read either Jung (who I worship) or Campbell (who I now really, really love) for many years. I think the wait was just fine for me (sorry Dave) but I know I will be reading at least Campbell's Masks of God for the rest of my life (and perhaps also his

I have re-watched and re-watched, and will continue to re-watch the PBS interviews with Bill Moyers. It's what drives me to keep trying to get through this book. But, sadly, I have not succeeded this time around. It's just too scholarly for me. I enjoy rifling through and falling upon Campbell's glorious and very real descriptions of mythologies surrounding creation and deity worship. But when it comes to reading the book straight through, uh uh, not this time. Maybe next time. I am sure I will