Hero cycle in the context of "Narratology"

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⭐ Core Definition: Hero cycle

In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero's quest or hero's journey, also known as the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed.

Earlier figures had proposed similar concepts, including psychoanalyst Otto Rank and amateur anthropologist Lord Raglan. Eventually, hero myth pattern studies were popularized by Joseph Campbell, who was influenced by Carl Jung's analytical psychology. Campbell used the monomyth to analyze and compare religions. In his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), he describes the narrative pattern as follows:

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Hero cycle in the context of Kayanian dynasty

The Kayanians, also rendered Kiani, were an ancient dynasty of Iranian legend. Originating from the ancient Avestan term for "warrior poet", the Kiani are the union of wisdom and power, and represent Iranian identity at its most militant and self-conscious.

The founding dynasty that preceded them, the Pishdadians, represented a Primordial Age where mankind itself was first emerging. By contrast, the Kiani mark the beginning of the Iranian Heroic Cycle--mythopoetic in nature, but believed by scholars to represent a genuine collective memory of real, living ancient Iranians.

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Narratology → Comparative mythology → Hero → Climax (narrative) → Nostos → Otto Rank → FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan → Joseph Campbell → Carl Jung → Analytical psychology → Comparative religion → The Hero with a Thousand Faces →