On hero's journey, monomyths, and Minotaurs

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One late autumn evening, when the sound of raging rain broke through the window of my castle, and the brick road beckoned me... err, let me start this again. One evening one of my Twitter followers has asked me to blog about the whole concept of The Hero's Journey or Monomyth (if you never heard of it, I suggest you read this article first), coined by Joseph Campbell, an American writer and mythologist, basically stating that most myths follow the same pattern of a hero leavin...