Monomyth/Hero's Journey

The 3 main stages of the hero's journey/monomyth are (Check all that apply)

• Initiation

• The quest

• Departure

• Transformation

• Return

The hero begins in the normal world then receives information that propels him or her into the unknown

• Supernatural aid

• Refusal of the call

• Apotheosis

• Call to adventure

The hero wants to stay in the other world.

• Meeting a temptress

• Refusal of the return

• Rescue from without

• The crossing of the return threshold

The hero gains a deep understanding of himself. A pattern of the divine state to which the human hero attains who has gone beyond the last terrors of ignorance‖

• Apotheosis

• Ultimate boon

• Atonement with the father

• Meeting with the godess

....is a series of tests, tasks, or ordeals. Once having traversed the threshold, the hero moves in a dream landscape of curiously fluid, ambiguous forms, where he must survive a succession of trials” (Campbell 81).

• Belly of the whale

• Ultimate boon

• The road of trials

• The crossing of the first threshold

The male hero may meet a powerful female figure. The goddess may be the hero’s romantic love interest or a mother figure. It is commonly represented as a mystical marriage of the triumphant hero-soul with the Queen Goddess of the World.

• The ultimate boon

• Apotheosis

• Woman temptress

• Meeting with the goddess

“The first encounter of the hero-journey is with a protective figure (often an old man) who provides the adventurer with amulets against the dragon forces he is about to pass”(Campbell 57). The mythic protagonist frequently receives help from some supernatural source to help them start their journey.

• Atonement with the father

• Supernatural aid

• Master of two worlds

• Rescue from without

“The seeker of the life beyond life must press beyond her, surpass the temptations of her call, and soar to the immaculate ether beyond” (Campbell 102). The male hero may meet temptation in female form.

• Meeting the goddess

• Woman as temptress

• Belly of the whale

• refusal of the call

The hero may refuse the call because he does not want things to change or because he considers the adventure a form of death)

• The magic flight

• Refusal to return

• Refusal of the call

• Rescue from within

IN ORDER TO UNLEASH THE UNKNOWN WITHIN HIMSELF, THE HERO MUST LEAVE BEHIND HIS FAMILIAR BEGINNINGS

• The ultimate boon

• Return

• Initiation

• Departure