Where did the Jesus myth come from?

[LEDO]

I don't recall Campbell stating that he did not understand why heroes and demi-gods had enormous strength and performed great deeds. In fact, his thoughts on that form the crux of the Hero's Journey. Can you give me a reference to read where he admits this failing?

A slight misstatement. Perhaps I should have said great morals over strength.

I quote Campbell in my book in this paragraph.

The extreme importance our ancestors placed on the zodiac and constellations would have made astrology the prime influence on religion and culture, contrary to what the best scholars in this field have to say. One can read a whole chapter by Joseph Campbell discussing the relationship of the woman and the serpent and come away empty. Campbell shows the famous Adam and Eve Seal, remarking on the snake’s relationship to the tree. He quotes references to Leviathan from Job mentioning the “dark sea” or the “abyss”; shows us Dionysus being nurtured in a cave; describes the goddess Demeter; dissects the virgin concept; relates the legend of Medusa and Pegasus; and demystifies the battle of Zeus and Typhon, yet not once does he mention a constellation. Instead, he claims that all these stories rise from things known by him and his colleagues as “order of the Mother right,” “the warrior principle of the great deed,” or “the principle of indeterminacy.” After he makes his conjectures, he then admits there is something amiss with the whole idea: “And yet one cannot help feeling that there is something forced and finally unconvincing about all the manly moral attitudes of the shining righteous deedsmen, whether of the Biblical or Greco-Roman schools…A residue of mystery remains with them…as to say ‘But do you not hear the deeper song?’” Campbell misses the whole point of the cosmic myth and the major influence it has had on man.

Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology (Viking Penguin Books, 1991), 25.

Minimalist- I don't believe in astrology either, but I don't deny that is the origin of religion.