Explore the power of myth as it flowered in Asia
In this second volume of The Masks of God--Joseph Campbell's major work
of comparative mythology--the preeminent 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.
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: "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,
irresistibly advancing to some kind of mighty climax, out of which the
next great movement will emerge."