The Power of Myth

Season 1 Episode 5: Love and the Goddess

Campbell talks about romantic love, beginning with the 12th century troubadors, and addresses questions about the image of women - as goddess, virgin, Mother Earth. The Troubadours, Eros, romantic love, Tristan, libido vs. credo, separation from love, Satan, loving your enemy, the Crucifixion as atonement, virgin birth, the story of Isis, Osiris and Horus, the Madonna, the Big Bang, the correlation between the earth or mother Goddess and images of fertility (the sacred feminine).

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

6

Actor:

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

1988

IMDb:

7.1