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Originally Posted by troutman

http://billmoyers.com/content/ep-3-j...tellers-audio/

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: That’s right. The basic hunting myth, I would say, is of a kind of covenant between the animal world and the human world, where the animal gives its life willingly. They are regarded generally as willing victims, with the understanding that their life, which transcends their physical entity, will be returned to the soil or to the mother through some ritual of restoration. And the principal rituals, for instance, and the principal divinities are associated with the main hunting animal, the animal who is the master animal, and sends the flocks to be killed, you know. To the Indians of the American plains, it was the buffalo. You go to the northwest coast, it’s the salmon. The great festivals have to do with the run of salmon coming in. When you go to South Africa, the eland, the big, magnificent antelope, is the principal animal to the Bushmen, for example.
BILL MOYERS: And the principal animal, the master animal
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Is the one that furnishes the food.
BILL MOYERS: So there grew up between human beings and animals, a bonding, as you say, which required one to be consumed by the other.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: That’s the way life is.
BILL MOYERS: Do you think this troubled early man, too
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Absolutely, that’s why you have the rites, because it did trouble him.

Fine. Then I'm allowed to paint my dog's toe nails, make him wear a hat and push home around in a stroller and you can't say a damn thing about. Personifying is personifying.