Flickr Story

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I decided to use paintings to convey the story for this project. The story is my interpretation of Joseph Campbell's hero cycle. The first image is 'departure,' the hero leaves the known world to seek wisdom on the hero's journey. The next is the challenge or the abyss that the hero must endure. The third image is "Odin's Initiation" and the fourth another initiation image. The fifth image is a depiction of Akhenaten, the Egyptian pharaoh who first introduced the idea of a monotheistic deity in the form of the sun. Akhenaten is receiving the divine gift. The sixth image was chosen to represent the transformation into the new self, a critical component in the hero cycle. The seventh image is the return to the world in order to share the new knowledge attained by the hero on his or her journey. The final image is from a Campbell concept that the when you are at the base of the pyramid, your vision is limited, but the "eye of god" is attained at the top of the pyramid...the returning hero has attained the eye of god and has come back to his home world to share what was learned on the journey.