"...You see, this is a problem you get in the Book of Kings and in Samuel. The various Hebrew kings were sacrificing on the mountaintops. And they did wrong in the sight of Yahweh. The Yahweh cult was a specific movement in the Hebrew community, which finally won. This was a pushing through of a certain temple-bound god against a nature cult, which was celebrated all over the place.
And this Imperialistic thrust of a certain (((in-group culture))) is continued in the West. But it has got to open to the nature of things now. If it can open, all the possibilities are there."
i_yam_wat_i_yam ago
From the book: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Chapter 1: 'Myth and the Modern World', page 21.