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The goal of the myth is to dispel the need for such life ignorance by effecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will.

...if the monomyth is to fulfill its promise, not human failure or superhuman success but human success is what we shall have to be shown.

The Japanese have a proverb: "The gods only laugh when men pray to them for wealth."

"Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known."

The World Navel, then, is ubiquitous. And since it is the source of all existence, it yields the world's plentitude of both good and evil. Ugliness and beauty, sin and virtue, pleasure and pain, are equally it's productions.

The hero is the man of self-achieved submission.