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Archaeologists have found a heavy stone slab covering the tomb of one of the first Catholic priests in Mexico following the 1521 Spanish conquest, a grave sunk into the floor of what appears to be an Aztec temple.
The discovery suggests the extent to which the Spanish reused the temples of the Aztec capital in the first years after capturing it. The huge slab was uncovered in recent days at the site of the now-disappeared first cathedral of Mexico City, built in 1524 yards from the current cathedral that replaced it in the 1620s...
Here is the link for more about that.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/13/mexico-priest-grave-spanish-conquest-aztec-archaeology---
At the top of this page is an illustration that summarizes Joseph Campbell's concept of the hero's journey." ( http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/the-hero-journey-mythic-structure-of-joseph-campbell-monomyth.html )
Whether you are talking about Indiana Jones or Star Wars or any of a large number of other popular films or stories there are plot elements that you will see over and over again.
You might wonder what that has to do with treasure hunting. I'm not writing about the art of writing today. I'm writing about human adventure and experience. Those who "follow their passion" go through the steps and stages shown in the illustration to one extent or another. There are treasure hunters that actually live the hero's journey.
If you look at the illustration at the top of the page, you'll see that the hero's journey begins in the ordinary everyday world. It starts out in a place of relative comfort. You might call it home. Then the prospective hero receives a calling. Just as one example, Luke Skywalker started as a farm boy living on a small backwater planet. In his case, the calling was initiated when two droids appeared with a mysterious message.
The calling is to a life of adventure. The life of adventure requires leaving comfort, ease, safety, and the current state of affairs. Whether it is Never-Never-Land, Emerald City, Shangra-la, or a strange distant galaxy, after much conflict, the hero has to step out into a new life where he is tested over an over again.
Some treasure hunters experience the sequence of events described in the Hero's Journey and shown in the illustration above. They make a decision to leave the life of familiarity and jump into the adventure. In a previous post I tried to describe something like that as being "all in." Many reject the calling, and that might be the right thing to do for them. The life of adventure is a life of risk. You don't know if you will be successful, and there is a lot to overcome. It requires a leap of faith.
You can find a complete breakdown of Raiders of the Lost Ark and how it follows the stages of the Hero's Journey at the following web site. http://gordonnapier.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-the-heros-journey-breakdown/
I know I didn't do this topic justice, and I apologize. It would probably take hundreds of pages, if I could do the topic justice at all.
Some treasure hunters actually live the Hero's Journey very much as it is described by Joseph Campbell and the illustration above. If you look into what I talked about today and think about it, you might get some good insight into treasure hunting. That is my hope.
As I suggested in a previous post, the hero's journey is more about the journey and personal development than it is about any object or objects. Traveling the yellow brick road, the cowardly lion finds courage, and the tin man and scarecrow find what they lacked. In the end, Dorothy returns home changed.
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Let me know if you got anything at all out of this post. It wasn't easy for me to try to address a subject like this in a brief post, and I don't really know if I should have tried. I got something out of it anyway.
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