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June 29, 2005
Blueprint for a Hero
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I've always been fascincated by mythology and The Journey of the Hero.
A good exploration of The Journey of the Hero and its use in the works of George Lucas can be found here.
Campbell's contribution was to take this idea of archetypes and use it to map out the common underlying structure behind religion and myth. He proposed this idea in The Hero With a Thousand Faces, which provides examples from cultures throughout history and all over the world. Campbell eloquently argues that all stories are fundamentally the same story, which he named the "Hero's Journey," or the "monomyth." This sounds like a simple idea, but it suggests an incredible ramification, which Campbell summed up with his adage "All religions are true, but none are literal." That is, he concluded that all religions are really containers for the same essential truth, and the trick is to avoid mistaking the wrappings for the diamond.
Posted by lorigrace at June 29, 2005 09:29 PM
Comments
that's so great! i'll have to go back an take a longer look later..
Posted by: victorie at June 30, 2005 04:23 AM
What a great illustration, you have the feel of an old map wonderfully and just like a map, my eyes kept moving over it, seeing all the different things and then going back and seeing more. The ideas, words, pictures it all worked to show the journey. This was just a most terrific idea. I think it worked GREAT!
Posted by: Jacque Davis at June 30, 2005 08:54 PM