Mythos — Season 1, Episode 4: From Goddesses to God: The gradual shift from the Goddess to male, warlike deities

Episode synopsis

"From Goddess to God" takes on the first major transformation for humankind. It begins with the emergence of agriculture and culminates with the world's first great empire: Egypt. While to some this may be just history, it is this history that has happened to the human race. By looking at these ancient cultures we can get a glimpse into our own lives.

About Mythos

Mythos is a three-part documentary that consists of a series of lectures given by Joseph Campbell. Campbell conceived of the original lectures, filmed over the last six years of his life, as a summation of what he had learned about the human mythic impulse, in terms of psychology, ethnology and comparative mythology—what he called "the one great story of mankind."

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Psyche & Symbol: The psychological impulse for and response to myth
• E2The Spirit Land: How myths awakened American Indians to the mystery of life
• E3On Being Human: The emergence of myth in early hunter-gatherer societies
• E5The Mystical Life: Non-biblical mythic strains that helped shape the Western spirit