“It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.”

— Joseph Campbell, book The Hero with a Thousand Faces

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The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)

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American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987

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