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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Joseph Campbell

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Historian Of Religion
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
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Joseph Cambell
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