Campbell, Joseph

Masks of God, Oriental Mythology

New York: The Viking Press, 1963. Second Printing, February 1963. hardcover, 561 pages, indexed, 8.5" x 6" x 1.5", couple of minor stains to front cover, small dent bottom edge front, 23 illustrations. near fine / none. Item #5567913

from Chapter 1, "The myth of eternal return, which is still basic to Oriental life, displays an order of fixed forms that appear and reappear through all time. The daily round of the sun, the waning and waxing moon, the cycle of the year, and the rhythm of organic birth, death, and new birth, represnet a miracle of continuous arising that is fundamental to the nature of the universe." DC3.

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