That’s my feeling, too.
You also have to throw away all stories that don’t fit the pattern you are looking for, which is something we frown on when scientists or drug companies do it.
As an archaeologist I’m extremely dubious about the monomyth. To arrive at the hero’s journey you have to throw away all of the details of a myth and it is those details that tell you the most about what mattered to the culture whom those myths belong to.
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Leaving tungle.hell like rats on the Titanic 