There exists in every culture a series of folk tales and stories, which make up a part of that culture's history. These stories, called myths, often venture into the magical and fantastic, with great heroes battling terrible monsters to save exotic lands. As the human race has evolved, we have moved beyond the need to attribute unexplained events to supernatural workings beyond our ken. As a result, modern culture puts its faith in science and organised religion, and for centuries there have been no new myths.

In the nineteen-seventies, a young and enthusiastic film maker/director put his imagination and heart into changing that. George Lucas's now legendary Trilogy of movies and books, Star

Wars, is the result. To the casual observer, the movies are only exciting science fiction stories, but a closer look reveals nothing short of a complete mythology within. George Lucas collaborated

with Joseph Campbell on the making of the first movie of the

Trilogy, A New Hope (A New Hope is more commonly known as

Star Wars, but to be accurate, Star Wars will be used when

and wishes to submit his application to the Starfighter Academy.

Death Star, Luke and his friends hid themselves until they could

power in combat. According to Campbell, this is characteristic of

which is Ireland today. Eire was peaceful and idyllic until the

previous mundane existence and enters the realm of enchantment

doesn't actually teach Luke; he is more of an example for Luke to

instructed Ben, and takes Ben and Han's place as the teacher in the

having small one-man starfighters to attack a battle station as big

stunned that Perseus had come back, and before he could act

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