![]() ![]() He called: “Next time you come up for air, dear, open your mouth and shut your eyes.” Then he slipped quickly into his raven clothes, pulled on his raven mask, gathered his fire sticks under his arm, and flew out over the water. The Eskimo of Bering Strait tell of the trickster-hero Raven, how, one day, as he sat drying his clothes on a beach, he observed a whale-cow swimming gravely close to shore. The hero, instead of conquering or conciliating the power of the threshold, is swallowed into the unknown, and would appear to have died. The idea that the passage of the magical threshold is a transit into a sphere of rebirth is symbolized in the worldwide womb image of the belly of the whale. ![]() “The Belly of the Whale,” an early chapter of Joseph Campbell’s seminal work The Hero With a Thousand Faces: ![]()
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