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 …
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