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Mythos
Season 1 · Episode 3
On Being Human: The emergence of myth in early hunter-gatherer societies
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"On Being Human" moves from the psychological origins of myths to the origins of human beings in prehistoric times. By tracing the development of mythic symbols from our earliest ancestors forward, we begin to see the themes that link all of us together into what Campbell calls the one great story of human kind.
Episodes
- Episode 1Psyche & Symbol: The psychological impulse for and response to myth
- Episode 2The Spirit Land: How myths awakened American Indians to the mystery of life
- Episode 3On Being Human: The emergence of myth in early hunter-gatherer societies
- Episode 4From Goddesses to God: The gradual shift from the Goddess to male, warlike deities
- Episode 5The Mystical Life: Non-biblical mythic strains that helped shape the Western spirit