Thus, they start out with some essential element of the gods already inside them. Frequently, this hero is born to lowly circumstances in a remote corner of the world and is the product of immaculate conception and virgin birth. But the hero can also start out as an obscure figure of humble origins, on the fringes of society. The archetypal myth is that of the hero’s journey, which details the exploits of an exalted figure such as a legendary warrior or king. It explores the common themes and story elements that define the world’s mythologies-though cultures are separated by vast gulfs of space and time, they all tell their stories in similar ways, using the same essential mythological template: the hero’s journey. The Hero With a Thousand Faces is a journey through the world’s mythological traditions, from the ancient Egyptians, to the Romans, the Hindu and Buddhist legends of the east, and the folk-tales and foundation myths of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Oceania. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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Born in Portugual in 1787, Guillobel came to Brazil in 1808, and from 1812 started drawing and painting small pictures on cards of everyday scenes in Rio de Janeiro. The foreground figures in Chamberlain's book were copied from three separate water-colors drawn earlier by Joaquim Candido Guillobel. On the right, a male slave is carrying a load of Capim or Guinea Grass while on the left, the woman carrying her child is selling pineapples (pp. When the lady wishes to stop, the carriers plant their sticks in the ground and support the ends of the bamboo on the iron fork fixed at the end of each for that purpose, until their mistress chooses to proceed. Caption, called the Rede this sort of hammock, the author writes, is usually made of cotton net, dyed of various colours and fringed, in which females, a little above the lower classes, are carried about by their slaves it is furnished with a pillow to lean upon, and across the bamboo, from which it is suspended, is thrown a covering or curtain fantastically striped. |