<p><strong><em>Explore the power of myth as it flowered in Asia</em></strong></p> <p>In this second volume of The Masks of God - Joseph Campbell's major work of comparative mythology - the pre-emimenent mythologist looks at Asian mythology as it developed over the course of five thousand years into the distinctive religions of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, and Japan. </p> <p>The Masks of God is a four-volume study of world religion and myth that stands as one of Joseph Campbell's masterworks. On completing it, he wrote: <em>Its main result for me has been the confirmation of a thought I have long and faithfully entertained: of the unity of the race of man, not only in its biology, but also in its spiritual history, which has everywhere unfolded in the manner of a single symphony, with its themes announced, developed, amplified and turned about, distorted, reasserted, and today, in a grand fortissimo of all sections sounding together, irrestibly advancing to some kind of mighty climax, out of which the next great movement will emerge.</em></p> <p>This new digital edition, part of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series, includes over forty new illustrations.</p> <p>(Comparative Mythology: Ancient Egypt, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism)</p> |