Friday, January 12, 2007

The Meeting with the Goddess

Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know. As he progresses in the slow initiation which is life, the form of the goddess undergoes for him a series of transfigurations: She can never be greater than himself, though she can always promise more than he is yet capable of comprehending.

-- Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

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The soul of a woman was created below...

--Jimmy Page, Dazed and Confused

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