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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

The mythology might be Lucas's own. But he took the framework from Joseph Campbell, who had built on C.G. Jung, etc. ...

http://moongadget.com/origins/myth.html

We all know that you build on the works of others, well ok, most of us do. Certainly, the story of Star Wars was the classic quest story. It's been said that there are only seven basic plots in a story.

The Star Wars mythos was built on top of many of the Japanese Samurai movies, which was based a lot on some of the various Daoist beliefs and the idea of chi (also spelled Ki or Qi).