
1 Season
8 Episode
The Power of Myth - Season 1 Episode 5 Love and the Goddess
Campbell talks about romantic love, beginning with the 12th century troubadors, and addresses questions about the image of women - as goddess, virgin, Mother Earth. The Troubadours, Eros, romantic love, Tristan, libido vs. credo, separation from love, Satan, loving your enemy, the Crucifixion as atonement, virgin birth, the story of Isis, Osiris and Horus, the Madonna, the Big Bang, the correlation between the earth or mother Goddess and images of fertility (the sacred feminine).
- Year: 2000
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
- Keyword: christianity, buddhism, mythology, psychology, interview, folk hero, hinduism, god, miniseries, storytelling, egyptian mythology, ancient civilization, rebirth, comparative religion, scholar, indigenous peoples, folktale, native american folklore, storyteller, subconscious, eastern philosophy, native american culture, western philosophy
- Director:
- Cast: Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers