
EP 22 : Moon Landings and Mythology
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Negative Power of Zoroaster
Zoroastrianism, the Persian religion of Zoroaster. This is a new thing in the history of mythology. In contrast to the biblical story, where you have the world first and then the fall, the world itself is a production of the fall. There is a prime good creation, then a fall. And it is, as a result of that fall, that the world of visible things comes into being. The woman gives birth to a nature being, the men's blood give birth to a culture being.
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