title: Occidental Mythology (The Masks of God, Volume III)
author: Joseph Campbell
description: 1976 Penguin Books trade paperback, Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth). A look at the mythology of the Western world and its differences to the Eastern world.
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  # The Masks of God
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Joseph Campbell
  
  
  
  
  
  # Volume II  
  
  
  Oriental Mythology
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology
  
  
  
  
  
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