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Joseph Campbell: the Malekula passage to the Land of the Dead

The fol­low­ing excerpts are from Joseph Campbell’s The Masks of God, Vol­ume 1: Prim­i­tive Mythol­ogy.
In a myth of the Melane­sian island of Malekula in the New Hebrides, which describes the dan­gers of the way to the Land of the Dead, it is told that when the soul has been car­ried on a wind across the