Who are you?
He was the world's first hero to have his story recorded in writing
Who is Gilgamesh?
The Cherokee myth, "Why the Trees Lose their Leaves" is a clear example of a myth that serves this function.
What is the cosmological function?
The first stage of any hero's journey.
What is the Call to Adventure?
This weather-related event features prominently in many creation stories from around the world.
What is a great flood?
A cosmic 'do-over' where a person who dies is reborn into a new body.
What is reincarnation?
This person tricked three gods and was punished for it by rolling a giant boulder around.
Who is Sisyphus?
Amazement, awe, and humility are all results of this function.
What is the mystical function?
Who is Joseph Campbell?
Perhaps originally included to help preliterate storytellers remember key items and events, including these (especially three and seven) is a sure way to help your story feel more mythic.
What are numbers?
He'll eat your heart (if it's too heavy, that is).
Who is Ammit?
This person had to complete tasks to make up for murdering his family.
Who is Hercules/Heracles?
Justifies the existence of a caste system, for example.
What is the sociological function?
Sometimes it's an object, and sometimes it is a lesson that the hero brings back with them to share with others.
What is the [ultimate] boon?
This figure always seems to prevent humankind from attaining immortality or an extended life.
What is the snake?
As envisioned by nearly every culture, this event commonly occurs between the end of life and progression to the afterlife -- and sometimes determines what that afterlife will be.
What is judgement?
Celtic goddess of the hearth, metal-smithing, sheep, and early spring, among other things
Who is Brigid?
Helps us to understand our own lives and struggles in a greater context.
What is the psychological function?
The Hero's Journey suggests that all heroes must cross this literal or metaphorical line near the beginning of the journey, and in the opposite direction near the end.
What is the threshold?
The Hero's Journey is a more specific, multi-step version of this more general plot archetype.
What is a quest?
She serves as both a mistress of the underworld and a creation deity.
Who is Izanami?
This jackal was an escort to those in the afterlife.
Who is Anubis?
These types of myth obviously serve not a cosmological function, but almost always a sociological function and a mystical function, as well.
What are creation myths?
In this stage, the hero is transformed, elevated, and recognized as a hero.
What is Apotheosis?
This archetype features prominently in the stories of Orpheus & Eurydice, Adam & Eve, and Izanami & Izanagi, among many others.
What is the 'One Forbidden Thing'?
This Hindu God of the underworld rides a bull -- at least he doesn't have the horns anymore.
Who is Yama?