In the next installment in the release of the Historical Atlas of World Mythology—Digital Edition, Joseph Campbell explores the mythologies and cultures of the hunting-gathering tribes of the equatorial rain forests. Using the myths and rituals of tribes from Central Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific as his lens, the eminent mythologist looks at the ways in which these tribes' myths are similar, the ways in which they are distinct, and what that tells us about the tribes themselves and the jungle environment in which they live. Joseph Campbell's multivolume Historical Atlas of World Mythology, his magnum opus, marked the culmination of his brilliant career as scholar, writer, teacher, and one of the foremost interpreters of our most sacred traditions. Campbell described his work as an attempt to tell humankind's "One Great Story" — our saga of spiritual awakening and the subsequent development of the many different mythological perspectives that have shaped us throughout time. His central theme is that our seemingly disparate spiritual traditions are neither discrete nor unique, but rather each is simply an "ethnic manifestation" of one or another of those "elemental ideals" that have forever transfixed the human psyche.