[The Masks of God 01] • Primitive Mythology by Campbell, Joseph -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Foreword

Prologue — Toward a Natural History of the Gods and Heroes

1. The Lineaments of a New Science II. The Well of the Past

Part One The Psychology of Myth

Introduction The Lesson of the Mask Chapter 1 The Enigma of the Inherited Image

I. The Innate Releasing Mechanism II. The Supernormal Sign Stimulus

Chapter 2 The Imprints of Experience

I. Suffering and Rapture II. The Structuring Force of Life on Earth III. The Imprints of Early Infancy IV. The Spontaneous Animism of Childhood V. The System of Sentiments of the Local Group VI. The Impact of Old Age

Part Two: The Mythology of the Primitive Planters

Chapter Three The Culture Province of the High Civilizations

I. The Proto-Neolithic: c. 12,500-7000 b.c. II. The Basal Neolithic: c. 7000-3500 b.c. III. The High Neolithic: c. 5000-3500 b.c. IV. The Hieratic City State: c. 5400–2500 b.c.

Chapter Four The Province of the Immolated Kings

I. The Legend of the Destruction of Kash II. A Night of Shehrzad III. The King, and the Virgin of the Vestal Fire

Chapter 5 The Ritual Love-Death

I. The Descent and Return of the Maiden II. The Mythological Event III. Persephone IV. The Monster Eel IV. Parallelism or Diffusion? VI. The Ritual Love-Death in Pre-Columbian America

Part Three The Mythology of the Primitive Hunters

Chapter 6 Shamanism

I. The Shaman and the Priest II. Shamanistic Magic III. The Shamanistic Vision IV. The Fire-Bringer

Chapter 7 The Animal Master

I. The Legend of the Buffalo Dance II. Paleolithic Mythology III. The Ritual of the Returned Blood

Chapter 8 The Paleolithic Caves

I. The Shamans of the Great Hunt II. Our Lady of the Mammoths III. The Master Bear IV. The Mythologies of the Two Worlds

Part Four The Archaeology of Myth

Chapter 9 Mythological Thresholds of the Paleolithic

I. The Stage of Australopithecus

(3.3–2.1 million b.c.)

II. The Stage of Homo erectus

(1,890,000–70,000 b.c.)

III. That Stage of Neanderthal Man

(c. >200,000–23,000 b.c.)

IV. The Stage of Cro-Magnon Man

(circa 38,000 b.c.–7,000 b.c.) The Aurignacian The Solutrean The Magdalenian

V. The Capsian-Microlithic Style

(c. 30,000-4000 b.c.)

Chapter 10 Mythological Thresholds of the Neolithic

I. The Great Serpent of the Earliest Planters

(c. 12,500 b.c.?)

II. The Birth of Civilization in the Near East

(c. 12,500 b.c. – 2,500 b.c.)

III. The Great Diffusion