Prelude: movement toward dawn
Birth of the creative process in man
The myth of the hero as cosmic creation myth in microcosm
Adam and Eve: the tree of knowledge of good and evil
Heaven and earth ... finitude and infinity ... perfection and imperfection ... good and evil
The Yin and the yang ... the dance of shiva
Variations on the theme of Horus and Seth ... Hari-hara ... the gunas
Symbolical contests of the heroes: the process of self-mastery
The founding of civilizations ... dangers inherent in excessive law, order, reason ... negative aspects of the unconscious and conscious ... Noah ... Jonah ... Durga
Guardians of the Treasure ... Clinging to the treasure ... consanguinity
Labyrinth and concatenation
The birth of the hero ... the exposure of the hero
Tyrannical clinging to power ... illusory and distorted attributions of heroic deeds ... pride, self-adulation, greed, repression ... interrogation point
The jester ... the right question ... the act of truth ... the trickster
The artist as hero in the contemporary western world
East-west, west-east: the thinker, Miroku
The ten oxherding pictures of Zen Buddhism ... Zen in the art of archery
Beyond combat ... Further reflections on the relationship between east and west
