The Masks of God Volume 2: Oriental Mythology

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The Masks of God Volume 2: Oriental Mythology
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE SEPARATION OF EAST AND WEST

Chapter 1. The Signatures of the Four Great Domains

1. The Dialogue in Myth of East and West
2. The Shared Myth of the One That Became Two
3. The Two Views of Ego
4. The Two Ways of India and the Far East
5. The Two Loyalties of Europe and the Levant
6. The Age of Comparison

Chapter 2. The Cities of God

1. The Age of Wonder
2. Mythogenesis
3. Culture Stage and Culture Style
4. The Hieratic State
5. Mythic Identification
6. Mythic Inflation
7. The Immanent Transcendent God
8. The Priestcraft of Art
9. Mythic Subordination

Chapter 3. The Cities of Men

1. Mythic Dissociation
2. Mythic Virtue
3. Mythic Time
4. The Mythic Flood
5. Mythic Guilt
6. The Knowledge of Sorrow

PART TWO: THE MYTHOLOGIES OF INDIA

Chapter 4. Ancient India

1. The Invisible Counterplayer
2. The Indus Civilization: c. 2500-1500 B.C.
3. The Vedic Age: c. 1500-500 B.C.
4. Mythic Power
5. Forest Philosophy
6. The Immanent Transcendent Divinity
7. The Great Reversal
8. The Road of Smoke
9. The Road of Flame

Chapter 5. Buddhist India

1. The Occidental and the Oriental Hero
2. The New City States
3. The Legend of the World Savior
4. Mythic Eternalization
5. The Middle Way
6. Nirvana
7. The Age of the Great Classics: c. 500 B.C.-c. 500 A.D.
8. Three Buddhist Kings
9. The Way of Vision
10. The World Regained--as Dream

Chapter 6. The Indian Golden Age

1. The Heritage of Rome
2. The Mythic Past
3. The Age of the Great Beliefs: c. 500-1500 A.D.
4. The Way of Delight
5. The Blow of Islam

PART THREE: THE MYTHOLOGIES OF THE FAR EAST

Chapter 7. Chinese Mythology

1. The Antiquity of Chinese Civilization
2. The Mythic Past
3. The Chinese Feudal Age: c. 1500-500 B.C.
4. The Age of the Great Classics: c. 500 B.C.-500 A.D.
5. The Age of the Great Beliefs: c. 500-1500 A.D.

Chapter 8. Japanese Mythology

1. Prehistoric Origins
2. The Mythic Past
3. The Way of Spirits
4. The Ways of the Buddha
5. The Way of Heroes
6. The Way of Tea

Chapter 9. Tibet: The Buddha and the New Happiness

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[This Table of Contents was originally posted to YouAreThat.org. I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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