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  <title><![CDATA[Occidental Mythology: The Masks of God 3]]></title>
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  <default_description>Campbell offers a systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship, and literature of the Western world. &quot;The high function of Occidental myth and ritual...is to establish a means of relationship--of God to Man and Man to God.&quot;--Joseph Campbell.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1964</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Campbell]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 09 14:53:46 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The seminal work of Frazier was The Golden Bough and thus the weaving of myths...with reoccuring themes thru the history of man and memorialized in archeaology,and religions ..became apparent to me as a reader and so I was delighted to come across Campbell. Joseph Campbell's books of which I have re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12093880">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1981</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 23 22:52:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the entire Masks of God series, but not in order, being introduced to it by Rich Hyde, a friend from high school who also attended college and seminary with me, while the two of us were at grandmother's cottage together.  In all of them the influence of C.G. Jung's archetype theory is pronoun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50258009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4647423">
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 16 11:25:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like everyone else at the time, I was, I admit, a true believer in Jospeh Campbell.  But the more I read the more I realised how prejudiced he could be at times against Western religions..esp the Roman Catholic Church. Now, there is nothing wrong per se with being against the RCC. But there is when ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4647423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12087214">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Campbell uncovers the roots of Occidental religions by discussing the artifacts and myths of the Levant, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.  The common themes of the snake, the goddess, the intertwined snakes (caduceus) demonstrate the possible common influences of the subsequent traditions in these area.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The connections between Judians, Christianity, and Islam are pretty evident, but to mix in Zorastrianism, the Levant, Greek and Roman mythology and how they all intermingled was fascinating.  This book truly sparked an interest for me to research the origins of the Bible.]]></body>
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    <review id="25748175">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 28 10:00:59 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't start with this one - go read &quot;Primitive Mythology&quot; and then &quot;Oriental Mythology&quot;, as the themes discussed here need to be placed in the context of the larger narrative arc developed throughout the series.<br/><br/>The series, overall: well worth all 2000+ pages.]]></body>
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    <review id="9540969">
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Ted K.]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 25 21:20:22 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 11 21:24:05 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is some pretty heavy stuff, you have to really like this kind of thing, which I do, but it was one of those books I have to plow through slowly. Really cool though.<br/> ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9540969]]></url>
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    <review id="17559620">
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 11 19:27:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 11 19:29:03 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This just really hits my personal fascination with Eastern thought and spirituality.  Again, it makes for great pondering...]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17559620]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="428103">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[The lost ones]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 25 19:34:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A rich history of occidental myths, opened my mind to what a civilization can concoct to explain the mysteries around us.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/428103]]></url>
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    <review id="5284762">
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  <read_at>Wed May 21 05:08:44 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 29 07:17:04 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 21 05:08:44 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[probably not a great one to startup just as school starts up but whatever man J.C. is rad.]]></body>
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    <review id="18566393">
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    <body><![CDATA[As with all things Campbell, he picks and scans areas to fit his theory. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18566393]]></url>
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    <review id="45697600">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 07 19:52:50 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 07 19:53:16 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[3rd in the cannon...I believe the series is a must read]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45697600]]></url>
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    <review id="10135985">
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes!<br/><br/>This is why they believe what they do.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[isbn,original]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[essential]]></body>
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