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:
  ORIENTAL MYTHOLOGY
  Joseph Campbell was interested in mythology
  since his childhood in New York, when he read
  books about American Indians, frequently vis-
  ited the American Museum of Natural History,
  and was fascinated by the museum's collection
  of totem poles. He earned his B.A. and M.A.
  degrees at Columbia in 1925 and 1927 and went
  on to study medieval French and Sanskrit at the
  universities of Paris and Munich.
  After a
  period
  in
  California, where he encountered
  John
  Steinbeck and the biologist Ed Ricketts,
  he taught
  at the Canterbury School,
  then,
  in
  1934, joined the
  literature department
  at
  Sarah Lawrence College, a post he retained for
  many years. During the 1940s and
  '50s, he
  helped Swami Nikhilananda
  to
  translate' the
  Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Rama-
  krishna. The many books by Professor Camp-
  bell include The Hero with a Thousand Faces,
  Myths to Live By, The Flight ofthe Wild Gander,
  a