the hero's journey or monomyth is a global narrative pattern in mythmyth
myth is the visionary literature of the spirit, stories of a symbolic past, neither science nor metaphor. Some myths are etiological, serving as an explanation of some kind. The... and literatureliterature
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found by Joseph Campbell. It is described in his book the hero with a thousand faces. similar patterns can be found, e.g. kishōtenketsu. the hero has to confront chaoschaos
before the seas and land had been created,
before the sky that covers everything,
nature displayed a single aspect only
throughout the cosmos; chaos was its name,
a shapeless, unwrought mass of ....
Showrunner and writer Dan Harmon has adapted the hero's journey into a simplified form he calls the story circle.
