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Each week, an author in the JCF community contributes an essay interpreting our monthly theme and featured Campbell work. This little blast of mythology -- a MythBlast -- is the centerpiece for our weekly curations, which are pulled from our archives to showcase the incredible resources we have on the JCF site. The MythBlast page is the perfect way to dive deeper into mythology, storytelling, and the work of Joseph Campbell.

Demeter delivering the wheat to Plutus, who receives it in the Cornucopia (stone relief, Classical, Greece, fifth century b.c.)

July 29, 2019

MythBlast | The Mysteries at Eleusis: Different and Luckier

David

[caption id="attachment_17852" align="alignright" width="300"] The reborn goddess (Persephone) as a sheaf of wheat (carved marble relief, Classical, Eleusis, Greece. c. fifth century b.c.)[/caption] My grandfather was a farmer in rural Minnesota on land that was...

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