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Chapter 6 page 212
Ch 6 Pg 216
“Moyers: Because when you substitute the male for the female, you get a different psychology, a different culture bias. And it’s a permissible in your culture to do what your gods do…
Campbell: I would see 3 situations here. First, the early one of the Goddess, when the male is hardly a significant divinity. Then the reverse, when the male takes over the her role. And finally, then, the classical stage, where the two and in interaction.”
Ch 6 Pg 213
Moyers: "Theres a story you tell about the overthrow of the mother goddess Tiamat"
Campbell:"I guess that could be taken as the key archetypal event here"
Moyers:"You called it a critical moment in history."
Campbell:"The Semitic people were invading the world of the Mother Goddess system, and so the male-oriented mythologies became dominant, and the Mother Goddess become, well-- sort of Grandmother goddess..."
Ch 6 Pg 210
"Campbell: The idea is that she swallows the sun in the west and gives birth to the sun in the east, and it passes through her body at night.
Moyers: So it would be natural for people trying to explain the wonders of the universe to look to the female figure as the explanation of what they see in their own lives."
The perspective choose to focus on was female versus male roles in society in our world today and in the past.