The hero with a thousand faces

Prologue: tMonomyth --

pt. 1. Adventure of the hero --

Departure --

Initiation --

Return --

Keys --

pt. 2. Cosmogonic cycle --

Emanations --

Virgin birth --

Transformations of the hero --

Dissolutions --

Myth and society.

Prologue: The monomyth. Myth and dream ; Tragedy and comedy ; The hero and the god ; The world navel

PART I: THE ADVENTURE OF THE HERO. Departure. The call to adventure ; Refusal of the call ; Supernatural aid ; The crossing of the first threshold ; The belly of the whale

Initiation. The road of trials ; The meeting with the goddess ; Woman as the temptress ; Atonement with the father ; Apotheosis ; The ultimate boon

Return. Refusal of the return ; The magic flight ; Rescue from without ; The crossing of the return threshold ; Master of the two worlds ; Freedom to live

The keys

PART II: THE COSMOGENIC CYCLE. Emanations. From psychology to metaphysics ; The universal round ; Out of the void

space ; Within space

life ; The breaking of the One into the manifold ; Folk stories of creation

The virgin birth. Mother Universe ; Matrix of destiny ; Womb of redemption ; Folk stories of virgin motherhood

Transformations of the hero. The primordial hero and the human ; Childhood of the human hero ; The hero as warrior ; The hero as lover ; The hero as emperor and as tyrant ; The hero as world redeemer ; The hero as saint ; Departure of the hero

Dissolutions. End of the microcosm ; End of the macrocosm

Epilogue: Myth and society. The shapeshifter ; The function of myth, cult and meditation ; The hero today.

Includes The adventure of the hero and The cosmogonic cycle.