A Personal Evolving Cosmology (Part 1)

0 Comments | March 11, 2010 at 2:19 pm by mahud

My spiritual beliefs have been and remain to an extent shaped by Christianity. Growing up I didn’t really have much exposure to spirituality. I was raised in a monotheistic culture. I knew the stories of the Old and New Testaments. I sang Christian Hymns every morning at school. But It was never something that had […]

The Meeting of the Sun and Moon

0 Comments | April 15, 2009 at 8:57 am by mahud

As mentioned by Joseph Campbell (citing Classical scholar Gilbert Murray: Occidental Mythology p.162-163), in Homer’s Odyssey, there is found a grand celestial and mythic theme that mirrors the 19 year Metonic Cycle (the meeting of the sun and Moon). Yet the Odyssey pre-dates the discovery by the astronomer Meton (5th century BC), by well over […]

Joining the End to the Beginning (4/5)

1 Comment | March 14, 2009 at 11:05 am by mahud

A widely dispersed African myth tells that long ago Heaven and Earth were connected by a rope or ladder (or some other link) forming a primordial state of paradisical oneness between divinity and humankind. In the Nuer version of this myth human beings dwelt in the sacred presence of Kwoth. As long as they were […]

John David Ebert Lecture on Joseph Campbell Part 1-3 (YouTube)

5 Comments | January 15, 2009 at 9:16 am by mahud

Prompting some discussion…

Anyone been influenced by the works of Joseph Campbell (or not)?
What impact has JC had on modern Paganism, if any?
Anything you particularly disagree about his theories?

Parts 1-3 of John David Ebert’s Lecture on Joseph Campbell

John David Ebert Lecture on Joseph Campbell Part 1
John David Ebert Lecture on Joseph Campbell Part 2
John […]

Vertical Dualism of Mother Earth and Father Sky (Mythology Synchroblog 3)

7 Comments | May 1, 2008 at 7:15 am by mahud

This post is one of many in the third Mythology Synchroblog (View the list of other bloggers below)
…the primordial image of Mother Earth…is found throughout the world in countless forms and variants. It is the Terra Mater or Tellus Mater so familiar to Mediterranean religions, who gives birth to all beings.
…In some religions Mother Earth […]

A New Mythology

1 Comment | July 6, 2007 at 8:07 pm by mahud

The Nature of Mythology according to Joseph Campbell
A Myth, as Joseph Campbell understood it, is a symbolic communicator, that attempts to translate the universal mystery of existence, that cannot be consciously understood . A Mythology is like a series of sign posts, that direct us through this cosmic mystery, which is also the mystery of […]