Explore the energy of misconception as humanity first discovered it

With this first level of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell’s major function of comparative mythology — the preeminent mythologist looks at the wellsprings of myth. From the initial expressions of spiritual awe in cave paintings and sculptures towards the rites and artwork of modern primal tribes, myth has up to date humankind’s knowledge of the world, noticed and unseen. Exploring these archetypal mythic images and practices, Campbell examines about Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume I the essential ideas that underlie all human myth, even even today.

The Masks of God is a four-volume study of world religion and myth that stands as you of Joseph Campbell’s masterworks. On completing it, he had written:

Its main result for me personally has been the confirmation of the thought I’ve long and faithfully entertained: of the unity of the competition of man, not only in its biology, but also in its religious history, which has everywhere unfolded in the manner of an individual symphony, with its themes announced, developed, amplified and turned about, distorted, reasserted, and today, within a grand fortissimo of all areas sounding together, irresistibly advancing to some sort of mighty climax, out of which the next great movement will emerge.

This edition is part of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. Joseph Campbell Base spent some time working with researchers and academics to bring the anthropological details Campbell explores in line with the greatest twenty-first century scholarship.