The Masks of God Volume 3: Occidental Mythology

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The Masks of God Volume 3: Occidental Mythology
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

PART ONE: AGE OF THE GODDESS

Introduction. Myth and Ritual: East and West

Chapter 1. The Serpent's Bride

1. The Mother Goddess Eve
2. The Gorgon's Blood
3. Ultima Thule
4. Mother Right

Chapter 2. The Consort of the Bull

1. The Mother of God
2. The Two Queens
3. The Mother of the Minotaur
4. The Victory of the Sons of Light

PART TWO: THE AGE OF HEROES

Chapter 3. Gods and Heroes of the Levant: 1500-500 B.C.

1. The Book of the Lord
2. The Mythology Age
3. The Age of Abraham
4. The Age of Moses

Chapter 4. Gods and Heroes of the European West: 1500-500 B.C.

1. The Dialogue of North and South
2. The Marriages of Zeus
3. The Night Sea Journey
4. The Polis

PART THREE: THE AGE OF THE GREAT CLASSICS

Chapter 5. The Persian Period: 539-331 B.C.

1. Ethical Dualism
2. The Cosmic Fall and Renovation
3. The King of Kings
4. The Remnant
5. The God of Love

Chapter 6. Hellenism: 331 B.C.-324 A.D.

1. The Marriage of East and West
2. Syncretistic and Ethnic Monotheism
3. Mystery Cult and Apocalypse
4. The Watchers of the Dead Sea

Chapter 7. Great Rome: c. 500 B.C.-c. 500 A.D.

1. The Celtic Province
2. Etruria
3. The Augustan Age
4. The Risen Christ
5. The Illusory Christ
6. The Mission of Paul
7. The Fall of Rome

PART FOUR: THE AGE OF THE GREAT BELIEFS

Introduction. The Dialogue of Europe and the Levant

Chapter 8. The Cross and the Crescent

1. The Magi
2. Byzantium
3. The Prophet of Islam
4. The Garment of the Law
5. The Garment of the Mystic Way
6. The Broken Spell

Chapter 9. Europe Resurgent

1. The Isle of Saints
2. The Weird of the Gods
3. ROMA
4. AMOR

Conclusion. At the Close of an Age

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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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