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by kthejoker2 1383 days ago
The first paragraph in that arti cle is deeply incorrect and sets Campbell's work up as a strawman, which you unhelpfully perpetuate here in this comment.

Campbell does not "fundamentally claim" anything about "all human stories" in Hero with a Thousand Faces.

He merely points out a commonly recurring pattern among a certain subset of stories (namely, stories about famous heroes) across multiple human societies and cultures, even those with limited cultural overlap.

In fact, his work is like an early version of TV Tropes, giving names to thematically repeating elements of such stories.

You (and that blog's author) should actually read the book before declaring it nonsense.