Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Chapter 2
Context: The passage of the mythological hero may be overground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward—into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.... Something of the light that blazes invisible within the abysses of its normally opaque materiality breaks forth, with an increasing uproar. The dreadful mutilations are then seen as shadows, only, of an immanent, imperishable eternity; time yields to glory; and the world sings with the prodigious, angelic, but perhaps finally monotonous, siren music of the spheres. Like happy families, the myths and the worlds redeemed are all alike.
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe (2013)
"Home Schooling and Indian Lore"
An Autobiographical Novel (1991)
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
“You got overdraft at the mythology bank.”
Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 15, “Delivery Service” (p. 329)
“Heresy is the life of a mythology, and orthodoxy is the death.”
Lecture 1A, 20:42
Mythology and the Individual (1997)
“An entire mythology is stored within our language.”
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 133
