Transformations of Myth Through Time - Joseph Campbell

Where People Lived Legends: American Indian Myths (1x3)

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Campbell's telling of the Navaho legend of "Where the Two Came to Their Father" illustrates an American Indian version of the hero's journey and illustrates the relationship of man and nature, a constant theme through time in American Indian cultures. Campbell has pointed out that "when mythology is alive, you don't have to tell anyone what it means." A myth that is alive works like a picture. In telling an archetypal Navaho Indian myth, Campbell brings to life the landscape in which all aspects of the land and the life force are infused with scared meaning.