Primitive Mythology

Synopsis

The first volume in joseph campbell’s monumental four-volume the masks of god series, originally published in 1959 and now revised with up-to-date science and new illustrations in this collected works of joseph campbell paperback edition in this first volume of the masks of god, the world’s preeminent mythologist explores and illuminates the wellsprings of myth. Showing his exemplary combination of scholarly depth and popular enthusiasm, joseph campbell looks at the expressions of religious awe in early humans and their echoes in the rites of surviving primal tribes.