“For when scrutinized in terms not of what it is but of how it functions, of how it has served mankind in the past, of how it may serve today, mythology shows itself to be as amenable as life itself to the obsessions and requirements of the individual, the race, the age.”

— 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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