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⸘⸘What Day‽‽ Creative Mythology is Volume IV of the comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God. The book concerns "creative mythology", Campbell's term for the efforts by an individual to communicate his experience through signs, an attempt that can become "living myth". published year 1968

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“How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind’s prudent folly? That is the hero’s ultimate difficult task. How render back into light-world language the speech-defying pronouncements of the dark? How represent on a two-dimensional surface a three-dimensional form, or in a three-dimensional image a multi-dimensional meaning?" /...\ "Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold.” ― Joseph Campbell (Sarah Lawrence College for women), The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

Noteworthy: Joseph Campbell married one of his own students on May 5, 1938, Jean Erdman. This was 364 days before the May 4, 1939 final publication of Finnegans Wake. Both took a keen interest in James Joyce. Jean Erdman created the excellent Finnegans Wake Dance "The Coach with the Six Insides", a couple of Joyceans! Jean Erdman died May 4, 2020 at the age of 104. !JamesJoyceExperience@lemm.ee

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