Occidental Mythology (The Masks of God, Volume 3), by Joseph Campbell

Authors

Phillip Fitzsimmons, Southwestern Oklahoma State UniversityFollow

Abstract

Occidental Mythology begins with an anthropological description of the development of religions from the East and Middle East and how they evolved into or influenced Occidental religious traditions. Campbell describes how early polytheistic goddess religions were replaced in pre-history by patriarchal monotheism. His argument is that many episodes in the Bible make sense if they are understood as a record of a dim memory of the Neolithic goddess worship replaced by patriarchic monotheism.

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