Quotes About Mythology

I want to be riding with the Four Horsemen!

The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.

Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.

When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.

I've been obsessed with Romans since I was a child.

You can't cast Hittites as Trojans; I'd love to do it, but sadly, there are none available!

Without Merlin, there would be no Gandalf, so I see them as the same thing, one a continuation of the other.

Kratos began life as an anti-hero at a time when anti-heroes in games were scarce.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion.

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.

'Children of Blood and Bone' is basically 'Black Panther' with magic.

The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

If you look back at the great classics and the epics and myths, they were for everyone. Different people got different things from them, but everyone was invited to participate.

They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life.

I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil.

And the god of Ahab was called Beelzebub. Nowadays we call him Pir Bub.

Germanic mythology, reinforced by all sorts of occult ideas, evidently became for him a kind of substitute religion.

There's a sea—a great sea—I love . . . It's where the Gods go to bathe.' 'What Gods?' 'The old ones. Before they died.' 'Gods don't die.' 'Yes, they do.

For many scientists, as Lyotard concedes, scientific knowledge is the only form of knowledge there is, but if so, how then do we understand fairy stories and law?

Extended periods of lungfish-like dormancy8 (the "undead" state) developed in response, as a means of reducing vampires' energetic needs. Vampires

Consider the joke about the miserly farmer who fed his longsuffering cow less and less each day; but just when he thought that he had weaned the cow from eating altogether, the unfortunate animal died . . . showing that we do not need as many gods as early man believed does not show that we need no gods at all; that must be argued on its own merits.57