It tells the story of a boy who brings home a songbird, and the father kills the bird, then the father drops dead because that he ended his life. Campbell says life is a song, it has a beginning and it ends with ups and downs. Campbell says if you stop singing, you stop living. Without nature, there would be no life. The cycle of life consists of ending life to create a new one or continue another. I love how the number thirteen relates to everything about life. I never knew the number thirteen had such meaning. Life, religion, society revolve around the word rebirth. Thirteen is the number the world was built on. Rebirth is what made people feel transcendent. Some questions I have: What are the clues to the myths that Campbell talks about? Why should we read religious myths rather than our own? Why would the lack of myths cause people to do bad things? What does Campbell mean when he says, “The themes are timeless and the inflection is culturally bound”? What does Campbell mean about people becoming mythologized, and how would you become