Call to Adventure = boy meets girl, falls in love.
Crossing the threshhold = love declared and reciprocated. intercourse and conception are likely from this point on.
Tests & Helpers = courting, convincing parents and society
Sacred Marriage = marriage and intercourse, conception
Flight = pregnancy. many obstacles are thrown in the mother and child's way as they advance towards the moment when the growing child can enter the world.
Crossing the return threshhold = birth
Elixir brought into the world = raising the child in society.
> Birth is dramatic and universal. It was probably the most
> dramatic event in early humans' lives.
That's why birth is the model for crossing the return threshhold, and why intercourse is so often compared to entering a cave or a dark underground area.
Intercourse = crossing the threshhold Male Climax = elixir Birth = crossing the return threshhold
> I had the strangest experience in the OR during my wife's c-
> section. I was the only man in the room until the neonatologist
> came in. I felt like I had wandered into the Sacred Ceremony of
> the Sisterhood.
Um, Martin. You did. The witchy sisters had their ceremony. Now there's a young hero to take the place of the old tyrant, which would be you. :-) At least that's what overadherence to the Campbellian heroic cycle would have you believe.
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