Campbell

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• Joseph Campbell (Héros) - Gilgamesh
  24 de novembro de 2022, por Murilo Cardoso de Castro

  CAMPBELL, Joseph. Le Héros aux mille et un visages. Paris: Éditions Oxus, 2010
  La plus importante légende de la quête de l’élixir dans la tradition mésopotamienne prébiblique est celle de Gilgamesh, roi légendaire de la ville sumérienne d’Erech (Uruk), qui entreprit d’aller cueillir le cresson d’immortalité, la plante « A Ne Jamais Vieillir ». Après être passé sans dommage devant les lions qui défendent les contreforts et les hommes scorpions qui surveillent les montagnes qui soutiennent (…)

• Joseph Campbell
  23 de julho de 2024, por Murilo Cardoso de Castro

  JOSEPH CAMPBELL (1904-1987)
  Renomado estudioso norte-americano dos mitos e lendas da humanidade, investigando sempre padrões e possíveis analogias, que permitissem melhor compreender a condição humana através de sua produção mitológica. Não é raro os ocidentais irem à Índia para encontrar um guru. Campbell reconheceu que estava em busca do brahman, mas, como ele escreveu, “duvido que eu encontre um guru aqui”. Quando teve um encontro real com uma santa viva intoxicada por Deus, Ānanda Mayī (…)

• Joseph Campbell – Apresentação das "Mil e Uma Noites"
  23 de julho de 2024, por Murilo Cardoso de Castro

  My hope for the present book, therefore, is that its ancient science of Shehrzad, which has already charmed us, may, when we go past the portion introduced by Galland, so amplify our experience of the world that, seeing ourselves in perspective, some of us shall wish to rejoin the human race. Then, indeed, the reading of the complete Thousand and One Nights will have been our death–as tyrant, and refreshment as man.
  The Muslim saying that no one can read the complete Nights without dying (…)

• Joseph Campbell – The Work of the Brothers Grimm
  23 de julho de 2024, por Murilo Cardoso de Castro

  FOLKLORISTIC COMMENTARY
  FRAU KATHERINA VIEHMANN (1755–1815) was about fifty-five when the young Grimm brothers discovered her. She had married in 1777 a tailor of Niederzwehren, a village near Kassel, and was now a mother and a grandmother. “This woman,” Wilhelm Grimm wrote in the preface to the first edition of the second volume (1815), “… has a strong and pleasant face and a clear, sharp look in her eyes; in her youth she must have been beautiful. She retains fast in mind these old (…)