Amerikali bir mitolojist ve yazar Joseph Campbell’in dogum yildonumu (26 Mart 1904)
“Yuce bir dagin ustunde durdum ve devasa bir adam ve bir de cuce gordum; ve bir gok gurultusu duyar gibi oldum ve duymak icin yaklastim ; benimle konustu ve dedi ki: 'ben senim ve sen bensin, ve nerede olursan ol oradayim. Her seyde yayilmisim , ve ne zaman istersen, sen toplarsin Beni; ve Beni toplayarak Kendini toplarsin.' ” Kahramanin Sonsuz Yolculugu
"I stood on a loftly mountain and saw a gigantic man and another a dwarf; and I heard as it were a voice of thunder, and drew nigh for to hear; and He spake unto me and said: 'I am thou, and thou art I; and wheresoever thou mayest be I am there. In all am I scattered, and whensoever thou wiliest, thou gatherest Me; and gathering Me, thou gatherest Thyself.' "
“Sonucta kaderin cocugu uzun bir belirsizlik donemiyle yuzlesmek zorundadir.Bu asiri tehlike , engel ya da utanc donemidir. Ice, kendi derinliklerine ya da disa, bilinmeyene firlatilir; ne olursa olsun dokundugu kesfedilmemis bir karanliktir. Ve bu, beklenmedik, zararli olduklari kadar merhametli varliklarin alanidir: bir melek belirir, yardimsever bir hayvan, bir balikci, bir avci, kocakari ya da koylu. Hayvanlar arasinda , Siegfried gibi asagida yasam agacinin koklerini koruyan gnome'lar arasinda ya da hatta kucuk bir odada bir basina yetismis olan genc dunya ciragi , olculmus ve adlandirilmis olan alanin hemen otesinde duran tohum halindeki guclerin dersini ogrenir.”
“In sum: the child of destiny has to face a long period of obscurity. This is a time of extreme danger, impediment, or disgrace. He is thrown inward to his own depths or outward to the un- known; either way, what he touches is a darkness unexplored. And this is a zone of unsuspected presences, benign as well as malignant: an angel appears, a helpful animal, a fisherman, a hunter, crone, or peasant. Fostered in the animal school, or, like Siegfried, below ground among the gnomes that nourish the roots of the tree of life, or again, alone in some little room (the story has been told a thousand ways), the young world-apprentice learns the lesson of the seed powers, which reside just beyond the sphere of the measured and the named.”
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