Creative Mythology: The Masks of God - Softcover

Campbell s words carry extraordinary weight, not only among scholars but among a wide range of other people who find his research down mythical pathways relevant to their lives today. --Time

One cannot but admire the width and diversity of Joseph Campbell s scholarship. Campbell s great gift is for fluent and engaging exposition. --New Society

Campbell has become the rarest of intellectuals... a serious thinker who has been embraced by popular culture. --Newsweek

In this climax to his series of studies on world mythologies, the author examines a process he sees as beginning in the mid-twelfth century in the west - an accelerating disintegration of the orthodox tradition.