Few works have been written in the field of mythology with greater ambition and depth than The Masks of God. Over four volumes, Joseph Campbell conducts an exhaustive comparative study of the various mythologies of the world, revealing their unitary and universal character, and how they are all still alive in the modern world.
In this fourth and final volume of The Masks of God, Campbell develops his idea of creative mythology, in the Shakespearean sense of the term, that is, as a mirror to show virtue and vice its true appearance, and to the generations of each century its authentic form and physiognomy. It is therefore a aspect of mythology that does not come from the dictations and theological analyses of the high priestly spheres, as in most religions, but springs from the intuitions, feelings, ideas and visions of artists and writers who, true to their intimate experience,...read more