Masks of God. Mythology of the West (2 volumes) | Joseph Campbell

In the third volume of Masks of God, Campbell's main work on comparative mythology, this outstanding mythologist examines the pagan beliefs of the Greeks, Romans and Celts along with the Abrahamic religions: Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Campbell examines the characteristic features and common roots of these mythological systems, while demonstrating the process that was associated in the West with the transition from mythologies focused on the feminine to those that were addressed to the masculine. The study of religions and mythological systems of the world, which presents Campbell's work "Masks of God" compiled in four volumes, is undoubtedly a masterpiece. Concluding it, he wrote the following:

"I find that the main achievement for me was the confirmation of a thought that I had long and faithfully cherished: about the unity of the human race, not only biologically, but also in its spiritual history, which everywhere revealed itself in the form of a single symphony, the themes of which were proclaimed, developed, pushed to the limit, and then turned over distorted and reasserted, and which today, in the great fortissimo of all these movements fused together, is irresistibly striving forward to some majestic culmination, from which its next impulse will have to be born."