[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...

Six years ago I was literally elbow deep in the Joseph Campbell archives, retrieving dozens of audio cassette tapes on whose delicate ribbons were etched hours of Campbell talking about goddess myths. Between 1972 and...