Tells the story of a boy who brings home a bird that sings, and the father kills the bird, and then the father dies because he has ended his life . Campbell says life is a song, it has a beginning and flows with some ups and downs until the end. Campbell says if you stop the song, you stop life. Without nature there would be no life. The cycle of life is to end life to create a new one or continue another. I love how the number thirteen is connected to everything about life. I never knew the number thirteen had such a meaning. Life, religion, society revolve around the word rebirth. Thirteen is the number on which the world was built. Rebirth is what made people feel like they were transcendent. I have a few questions: What are the clues to the myths Campbell talks about? Why should we read religion's myths rather than our own? Why would the lack of myth push people to do bad things? What does Campbell mean when he says “The themes are timeless and the inflection is cultural”? What does Campbell mean when he says people are mythologized and how would you become one