Where did the Jesus myth come from?

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Here is Campbell elaborating on that issue:

Toward the end of close of the Age of Bronze and, more strongly, with the dawn of the Age of Iron (c. 1250 B.C. in the Levant), the old cosmology and mythologies of the goddess mother were radically transformed, reinterpreted, and in large measure even suppressed, by those suddenly intrusive patriarchal warrior tribesmen whose traditions have come down to us chiefly in the Old and New Testaments and in the myths of Greece.

and,

For it is now perfectly clear that before the violent entry of the late Bronze and early Iron Age nomadic Aryan cattle-herders from the north and Semitic sheep-and-goat-herders from the south into the old cult sites of the ancient world, there had prevailed in that world an essentially organic, vegetal, non-heroic view of the nature and necessities of life that was completely repugnant to those lion hearts for whom not the patient toil of earth but the battle spear and its plunder were the source of both wealth and joy. In the older mother myths and rites the light and darker aspects of the mixed thing that is life had been honored equally and together, whereas in the later, male-oriented, patriarchal myths, all that is good and noble was attributed to the new, heroic master gods, leaving to the native nature powers the character only of darkness--to which, also, a negative moral judgment now was added. For, as a great body of evidence shows, the social as well as mythic orders of the two contrasting ways of life were opposed. Where the goddess had been venerated as the giver and supporter of life as well as consumer of the dead, women as her representatives had been accorded a paramount position in society as well as in cult. Such an order of female-dominated social and cultic custom is termed, in a broad and general way, the order of Mother Right. And opposed to such without quarter, is the order of the Patriarchy, with an ardor of righteous eloquence and a fury of fire and sword. 2

The Masks of God-Occidental Mythology

1. pg 7
2. pg 21

Further, Campbell does reference the Mother as representing "Space, Time and Matter," which is fairly concrete reference to the cosmic myth. The shift as male dominance enters the picture is fully discussed, and I do not see Campbell allowing as to a failing to understand here, but rather, that the change is not completely natural.

Except Campbell has it all wrong. The death of the godess started at the end of the Early Bronze Age and can be seen in the earliest copy of Gilgamesh. The godess was blamed for the Great Famine and the destruction of 2 Babylonian cities. "Space time and matter" is fairly broad and vague and does not represent anything in the cosmos.

The simple reason why we switched is Ishtar worshipped was blamed for meteor destruction in Babylon. In Egypt, Hathor was blamed for the Great Famine and in Greece it was Kore. What Campbell writes is the classic psycho babble of people who don't understand the myths and want so desperately to assign a meaning to them.

Take for instance the grand-daddy of them all: The Oedipus complex. Ancient stories/myths are filled with sons becoming their mother's constort after killing his father. The psycho babble claims this is because boys subconsciencely want to kill dad and have sex with mom. This is nonsense.

Venus is the woman. The Moon is the male supreme god the father. They give birth to the sun/son. The moon and Venus are seen in the sky together. Then at some time Venus is seen in the sky with the sun and no moon. Hence the son/sun has killed father moon to copulate with mother Venus. It has nothing to do with any inane hidden desire. But Campbell and his kind will give you this glorious explanation, when it is clear he doesn't have the whole picture.