Few works have been written in the field of mythology with greater ambition and depth than Las mascaras de dios. Throughout four volumes, Joseph Campbell makes an exhaustive comparative study of the various mythologies of the world, revealing their unitary and universal character, and how they all still vibrate in the modern world. The presence of recurrent motifs in different traditions provides further evidence of the role of myths as custodians of the spiritual history of the human being and puts them back in a pre-eminent place. This new edition in Spanish of Western Mythology, revised by the Joseph Campbell Foundation in 2016, examines in detail the mythologies that flourished in western Iran, from the ancient cultures of the riparian zone of Mesopotamia and Egypt to those closest to it such as the Helena or the Roman Comparative study allows us to observe how, in the West, the foundation of being is personified as a rule in a creator, whose creature is man, and how the superior function of myth and ritual, compared to the oriental conception, less personalistic, is establish forms of God's relationship with man and man with God, always in struggle and in search of accommodation Published between 1959 and 1968, The Masks of God is composed of four volumes. The first, dedicated to primitive mythology, explores the mythological motifs of prehistoric cultures in light of the most recent archaeological, anthropological and psychological discoveries. The second volume, Eastern Mythology, deals with the religions of Egypt, India, China and Japan. In addition to this third volume, the work is completed with Creative Mythology, which deals with the importance of the mythological heritage in the modern world and the human being as creator of their own mythologies.