This work aims at discussing the relation between a narrative that transforms the European colonizer into a hero and the development of de so-called modern science as the only legitimate (and universal) way of producing knowledge. To do so, I take the hero journey described by Joseph Campbell (2007 [1949]) as an exemplary narrative, understanding that Campbell s work a) touches the psychological (unconscious/subconscious) construction of the character, from a psychanalytic view, and b) as an American scholar, we find him in the same record as the global north colonizers. Furthermore, I understand that both this hero and the modern science are myths inscribed within Modernity, also understood as a myth (Dussel, 1993), which in turn would be directly associated with Iberian colonization of America – I depart from America s discovery (1942) as the fundamental benchmark of Modernity. I intend to develop this discussion in light of the post-colonial e decolonial theoretical framework, understanding that the similarities that approximate them are more important than the differences – being the most important difference the mark of the beginning of colonialism: for the former, it would be the after Enlightenment, whereas for the latter would be America s discovery (Mignolo, 2000) – composing, thus, a critical and professedly political thought, despite the Western ontology, that is white and allegedly universal and neutral. Once I depart from the idea that the hero, the modern science and the modernity-coloniality (Dussel, 1993) are co-constitutives, these three elements are transversal in this work, touched by the race and gender dimensions, which highlight the most violent aspect of the analyzed objects.