Śiva & Kirtimukha: Life Lives on Life

In this lecture, Joseph Campbell speaks on the topic of life itself and how the nature of life is to live on life. He describes as the “prime image of life” the ouroboros, the all-consuming monster which would not exist if it were not consuming life. It is the image of the snake consuming its own tail and eating itself. To elucidate this idea, he goes on to explain the Indian myth of the great deity, Śiva.