Quotes About Mythology

The gods of Mewt are still very much alive, and not even the emperor would deign to destroy them.

The Mewts have an almost holy regard for beautiful boys beloved of kings, and Alofel was aware of this. Mewtish folklore was plump with tales about the mysterious, sacrosanct relationship of male lovers, whereas the Cossics were far more casual about these lessons. Most Cossic noblemen had wives and boys, but there was really little distinction between them.

She found herself wondering what the world would have been like if Shemyaza and the others had never disobeyed the laws of Kharsag and taken human wives.

There is more truth in the old stories than you know.

Why have only one river goddess when you could have forty?

Without taking any action himself, he had become more than a legend.

Creatures that feed upon blood are abhorred and feared by the majority of humans.

Had some ancient race preyed upon humanity in some way, so that certain conditions of death now echoed those old legends?

Perhaps he had become mythical, and was therefore creating myths.

The sea dragons remained a tantalizing myth, and if they had risen from the deep to touch the hearts and minds of two young intiates, they had once again sunk into dreams

The Tartauchi and Beth…Gimel, they were beginning to conjoin. Such is the way monsters were conceived, at one time.

Many of my projects are inspired by Indian mythology. We have read that in the ancient times, people could expand their body parts, extend arms - all of that reads like a dream. But all this can be done using technology based on simple solutions.

Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.

In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle.

You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

Like Artemis and Orion, fate was working against us, and we couldn't be together in this life. But he will forever be immortalized in my heart.

life cannot be repaired, it can only be recreated through symbolic repetition of the cosmogony

On the other hand, fire itself was looked upon as the result (the progeny) of a sexual union: it was born as a result of the to-and-fro motion (compared to copulation) of a stick (representing the male organ), in a notch made in a piece of wood (female organ; cf. Rig Veda III.......)

The formation of the embryo and childbirth repeat the primeval fact of the birth of humanity, looked upon as an emergence from the deepest chtonian cavern-matrix.

En resumen, la mayoría de los hombres -sin religión- comparten aún pseudo religiones y mitologías degradadas. Cosa que en nada nos asombra, desde el momento en que el hombre profano es el descendiente del homo religiosus y no puede anular su propia historia, es decir, los comportamientos de sus antepasados religiosos, que lo han constituido tal como es hoy día.

The Bedouins of Sinai are convinced that the man who is successful in making a sword of meteoric iron becomes invulnerable in battle and assured of overcoming all his opponents.

The main function of myth is to determine the exemplar models of all ritual, and of all significant human acts.

In all probability, it is Ereshkigal who, softened by Dumuzi's tears, lightens his sad fate by deciding that he should spend only half the year in the netherworld and that his sister, Geshtinanna, should replace him during the other half

This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.