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  • Joseph Campbell's book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Campbell divided ... * Campbell, Joseph. 1972. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton ...
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  • life's work was in 1949, The Hero With a Thousand Faces. It was an instant ... idea (first presented in The Hero with a Thousand Faces) that myth evolved ...
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  • Joseph Campbell, in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1948 ... **The Hero with a Thousand Faces. London: Fontana, 1993. ISBN 9780586085714 ...
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  • pronounced as yaksha-gaana) is a traditional dance drama popular ... actors. A performance usually depicts a story from the Hindu epics ...
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  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written ... which Campbell describes in The Hero with a Thousand Faces". ...
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  • In Hinduism, the Rāmāyaṇa is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed ... The Rāmāyaṇa consists of 24,000 verses About 480,000 words, or ...
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  • [[Image:Laas Geel cow herd.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Detail of the Laas ... usually dating to prehistoric times. The earliest known rock paintings ...
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  • Tamil literature refers to literature in the Tamil language. Tamil ... A revival of Tamil literature took place from the late nineteenth ...
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  • Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, ... Chinese myths are thought to have originated around the twelfth century ...
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  • Maitreya, the "future Buddha" in Buddhist eschatology, is ... The prophecy of the arrival of Maitreya is found in the canonical ...
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  • ) indicates the distinctive building style developed under the rule ... The vigorous temple building activity of the Hoysala Empire arose ...
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  • Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel is renowned ... As a Southern Gothic novel and a bildungsroman, the primary themes ...
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  • Tibetan art, or “Himalayan art,” refers to the art of Tibet and ... Until the mid-twentieth century, nearly all Tibetan paintings were ...
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  • Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...
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  • Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) was a French ... This is notable because Balzac wrote during the Romantic era, a period in ...
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  • I (Alamgir means world conqueror), was the ruler of the Moghul Empire ... Unlike his predecessors, Aurangzeb led a remarkably austere and pious ...
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  • The Western Ganga Dynasty (350 – 1000 C.E.) (Kannada:ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ... After the rise of the imperial Chalukyas of Badami, the Gangas accepted ...
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  • The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... Many Tatars inter-married with Russian families, including the nobility ...
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  • singer, songwriter, writer, and poet. He was the lead singer and predominant ... Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. James Frazer ...
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  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or ... Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ...
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