Reprinted wholly without permission from the latest issue of "Satellite News," a publication of Best Brains, Inc. The following is an excerpt from conversations between Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell which were edited out of the groundbreaking PBS series, "The Power of Myth." Campbell showed an extensive fascination for the many names of Tom Servo in "Incidental Mythology," the companion work to "Accidental Mythology" to be published later this year. MOYERS: Let's talk about all these names for Tom Servo. CAMPBELL: Oh! Don't get me started on Tom Servo. Here is a twist on the old mythological paradigm, one face with a thousand names. MOYERS: I remember growing up in the Southern Baptist tradition... CAMPBELL: Whatever. Let's start with a look at Tom's head, for instance. Round, always round. Plato said the soul is a circle. MOYERS: And what does that tell us? CAMPBELL: I don't know. Do you? But the beautiful thing is how it reflects thepsyche. If you go to the Cathedral in Chartres, and you'll find among the zodiacal imagery, this small image near Scorpio, of the bringer--being from the heavens, _Tum Serpico_, or _Tom Serpico_. Notice the spherical shape of the head. MOYERS: Ah, the theme of "roundness," the very word "round" finding its origin in the Middle English "Rund." To chant or sing. CAMPBELL: It was Ptolemy who proposed the elegant theorem that as Tom Servo is named, another will again name him, and they'll tell two friends, and so on, and so on, until suddenly you have this whole Gothic construction, sort of a tympanum over the doorway of existence, with the names of Tom Servo increasing at a geometric rate, filling the heavens, which if observed at a great spiritualdistance, come together to form those three utterances, those three initial symbols, Tommmmm, Serrrrr, voooo... say it with me. See how it resonates. Tommmm... MOYERS: Tommmmm... CAMPBELL: Serrrrrr... MOYERS: Serrr... CAMPBELL: Voooo... MOYERS: Voooo... CAMPBELL: Delicate, isn't it? Crystalline? Yet at the same time it resonates across the solar plexus, the fifth chakra, like the sound of a tabla or a sarod,striking that universal chord. MOYERS: The exercise is working. I can feel it, here. CAMPBELL: And in Mayan, Olmec and Aztec cultures, why even to the Anasazi; just look at the pre-cultural imagery culminating in the sunstone calendar, the drawings of so-called "ancient astronauts," what do you see? MOYERS: Good Lord. CAMPBELL: Exactly. _Tum Serpico_. Tom Servo. The Toltec name was Tolchetome- thuenicazit. But it means the same thing. MOYERS: It makes me think of Blake. CAMPBELL: It was Blake, wasn't it, retelling the lays of the old Welsh clod- diggers, he said: "O!" You understand? There's that roundness again. That theme. MOYERS: But the roots lie deeper, don't they. CAMPBELL: No. But there is an obscure Sumerian text attributed to the creation stories of the Hittites, specifically the story of the fish and the bicycle. It translates, _We shall use the seven names, but we shall remember only one. Tom. Or maybe it was Kon. Or Hom. Ang, perhaps. And the Tom shall find it's dome full to bursting with various frogs, spewing forth a thousand fold. The great thousand. The Tom._ You see? MOYERS: Well, actually, no. CAMPBELL: Later, it's the Indian _Tham Shri Vo_, dancing within a circle of flame, having six arms now, yet still none of them work. It's the mother image of Servo, the self-spawning crack in the primordial egg which lets fly the myriad names, the inscrutable path which eventually leads back to perfec- tion, the eternal. MOYERS: And, of course, lunch. CAMPBELL: Exactly! Think of _Tawn Hermo_, Snack Giver of the Carthage. MOYERS: And the snack images of the earliest of hermetic writings of Trismeg- istus, in which the sorcerer is brought a light nibble in the afternoon. CAMPBELL: And the incantation, _Deus Servomachina_ the one who is to come with the lunch. You see the modern parallel? MOYERS: The Automat? CAMPBELL: Precisely. The Automat. And in the middle of it, Tom. Au-_tom_-at. MOYERS: You know, lunch sounds good.