• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    2 months ago

    It’s just another way to describe the hero’s journey, which is about ego death (facing our “demons”) and rebuilding ourselves into better versions of ourselves. Ancient people didn’t have modern psychology, so they used metaphor, simile and allegory. A more modern version would be Steppenwolf, by Hesse.