Reddit reviews The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17)
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No, no, no. The Hero With A Thousand Faces is still very much in print. I bought two copies in the last year.
http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Thousand-Faces-Mythos-Books/dp/0691017840
Yes, that's Luke Skywalker featured prominently on the cover.
The book should be required reading for anyone who is part of the reddit Atheist Brigade. There are essential functions fulfilled by myths and ritual that can't be replaced with the Internet.
It's was an interesting modern take on the Grimm fairy tales, specifically those about the hero's journey and a girl's coming of age myth/fable. Despite the plot holes, if you are at all familiar with Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces you will immediately recognize the (at times over the top) symbolism of the various stages the heroine goes through on her journey from childhood into adulthood.
It's an action-flick version of a classic fable. Personally I liked the fact that someone made a movie about a teenage girl for a change. Haven't seen something like that since Mirror Mask.
But as with everything, haters gotta hate; 90% chance they are male.
That's for you to find out.
This might help you get started.
Save your time, this is the backbone she used to create it, even if she wasn't aware that's exactly what she did (at least Lucas admits it) : http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Thousand-Faces-Bollingen-No/dp/0691017840
If you don't want a traditional hero story then do something like GRRM does and copy the tragedies that befall normal human interaction and history, though then they'll just call you Shakespearean.
They say there are only (3 or 5 or 7 plots, take yr pick) and one of the biggies is the Hero Myth, on which both Star Wars and Dune are based. See Joseph Campbell for more
Hero with a Thousand Faces (Credit goes to an /r/atheism subscriber unbeknownst to him.)
Can be found very cheap on Amazon (I think I saw less than two dollars).
It's often referenced when discussing the Christian "hero" Jesus, and I think it'd be an impressive addition to any knowledgeable man's library.
It's called the monomyth or the hero's journey. Read Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Try reading Hero with a Thousand Faces.
If you think you might want to go after some of the original stories, Bullfinch's Mythology is a really classic collection of myths, and of course there's Grimm's Fairy Tales and Aesop's Fables. Richard Burton's translation of The Arabian Nights is the English language classic there, The Tale of the Genji is something similar from Japan.
You might also like some related nonfiction, like The Golden Bough which is about the origins of myth and religion, The Hero With a Thousand Faces about the similarities across various stories of heroes, and more recently, The First Fossil Hunters which looks at how finding elephant and dinosaur bones may have inspired some of the Greek monsters like cyclops and griffin.
You may be interested in the works of Joseph Campbell, particularly his idea of the monomyth.
Also, that article doesn't mention Odin who also has a similar sacrifice story, perhaps because his story may be newer than the story of Jesus.