Editing Joseph Campbell (section)

===Early collaborations===
{{Main|A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake}}
The first published work that bore Campbell's name was ''Where the Two Came to Their Father'' (1943),<ref>{{Cite web |title=archives.nypl.org -- Joseph Campbell papers |url=https://archives.nypl.org/mss/23930#:~:text=He%20is%20best%20known%20for,is%20shared%20across%20world%20mythologies. |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=archives.nypl.org}}</ref> an account of a [[Navajo people|Navajo]] ceremony that was performed by singer ([[medicine man]]) [[Jeff King (Navajo)|Jeff King]] and recorded by artist and [[ethnologist]] [[Maud Oakes]], recounting the story of two young heroes who go to the [[hogan]] of their father, the Sun, and return with the power to destroy the monsters that are plaguing their people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Where the Two Came to Their Father |url=https://www.ursinus.edu/live/profiles/7121-where-the-two-came-to-their-father |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=www.ursinus.edu |language=en}}</ref> Campbell provided a commentary. He would use this tale through the rest of his career to illustrate both the universal symbols and structures of human myths and the particulars ("folk ideas") of [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] stories.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jonaitis |first=Aldona |date=nd |title=Review of Where theTwo Came to Their Father |url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt59g3292b/qt59g3292b_noSplash_a816efa44f22c4b278ca3dc7d9248f54.pdf?t=rzjlc7 |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=escholarship.org}}</ref>

As noted above, [[James Joyce]] was an important influence on Campbell. Campbell's first important book (with [[Henry Morton Robinson]]), ''[[A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake]]'' (1944), is a critical analysis of Joyce's final text ''[[Finnegans Wake]]''. In addition, Campbell's seminal work, ''The Hero with a Thousand Faces'' (1949), discusses what Campbell called the ''monomyth''&nbsp;– the cycle of the journey of the [[hero]]&nbsp;– a term that he borrowed directly from Joyce's ''[[Finnegans Wake]]''.{{sfn|Campbell|1949|loc=p.&nbsp;30, n.&nbsp;35}}