The Hero with a Thousand Faces Identity Quotes

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Quote #7

The idea of the insulating horse, to keep the hero out of immediate touch with the earth and yet permit him to promenade among the peoples of the world, is a vivid example of a basic precaution taken generally by the carriers of supernormal power. (208.1)

Apparently, once you have your new identity of post-quest hero, your hands are literally so magic that you need a barrier between yourself and the old world just to keep it from being burned away in a crisp.

Quote #8

The disciple has been blessed with a vision transcending the scope of normal human destiny, and amounting to a glimpse of the essential nature of the cosmos. Not his personal fate, but the fate of mankind, of life as a whole, the atom and all the solar systems, has been opened to him; and this in terms befitting his human understanding, that is to say, in terms of an anthropomorphic vision: The Cosmic Man.

This is probably the closest thing to a "final" identity you find in Campbell: realizing that his identity encompasses the whole universe.

Quote #9

God and the gods are only convenient means—themselves of the nature of the world of names and forms, though eloquent of, and ultimately conducive to, the ineffable. They are mere symbols to move and awaken the mind, and to call it past themselves. (239.2)

This is also a part of identity, and the need to dispense with it if you really want to mamba with the nature of the universe. It's ultimately all a symbol for something more important, and when you look past the symbol to see it all, that symbol loses the importance it used to hold.