Hero With A Thousand Faces

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Bo tree

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Tree of enlightenment》immovable spot 》approach of kāma-māra, God of love and death, mounted on an elephant with weapons in a thousand hands with an army of twenty leagues. He could not break gautamas concentration, even with his daughters of lust, desire, pining... mother earth gave gautama a right to be there, and with her support, the dangerous God was dispersed

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Standard path of the mythological hero

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X 》Y》Z, separation, initiation, return. Fabulous forces are sought, defeated, and the hero returns

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Three chapters of the hero

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Departure, initiation, and return

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Edshu (west Africa)

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Divine comedy. Trickster. Personification of 'world navel.' He wore a 4 colored hat to confuse farmers and instigate a quarrel between two friends. "Spreading strife is my greatest joy"

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Apollo's pursuit of Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus

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Apollo is seduced by Daphne and chases her over a plain. She is frightened, because she does not know him. But apollo wants to be her lover. When she reaches the river, she begs her father to destroy the beauty that she was blessed with so she would not have to be pursued. She turns into a tree, forever the perfect embodiment of a father and daughter--a river and a tree.

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Prince Five-Weapons

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Ogre named Sticky-Hair, fearless attacker, "in one life one death is absolutely certain ", buddha in a previous life, the magic of his fearlessness and power of his word is stronger than his weapons, and the ogre is afraid to eat him, and the prince subdues him and transformed him into a spirit entitled to receive offerings in the forest