EP 25: Mystical Experience & The Hero
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Influence of Warrior Races on Culture and Religion
This chapter explores the influence of warrior races on the peasant and high types of people in the middle zone during the second millennium BC. It discusses their despise of the warrior people towards the cult of the land and the goddess Earth, focusing on their preference for a warlike divinity. The chapter also contrasts the Greek and Hebrew mythologies in terms of their views on the creation of the world and the role of the feminine.
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