Quotes About Mythology

Gods, if they're neglected, tend to fall asleep, but they never really go away.

Norns keep the tree Yggdrassil alive. Without them, nothing would exist… They show up when you're born and decide what kind of life you're going to have. I guess they were in a rotten mood when I came along, Jack said. He loaded up the water bag and supplies. Me too, Thorgil said gravely.

He says you freed him, Thorgil said with a face like a thundercloud. I did. Wait a minute. How did you know what he said?... You're like Sigurd. You got dragon's blood in your mouth.

It means she's a wise woman… There's nothing wrong with her! Jack cried. Thorgil Olaf's Daugher can do whatever she likes. He accepted her. Why can't you? She fought the troll-bear by his side. She killed a young dragon. She tasted its blood by accident, just as Sigurd did. That's why she understands birds now. She drank from Mimir's Well. That's why she can make poetry now. Why can't you accept that?

They all claim to have been built by the author of the Golden Stone sutras, this guy named Purochana who some wizard historians believe was the guy of that name who also shows up in the Mahabharata, more or less working for the prince of Gandhara.

If you deliberately put out a bowl of milk for the little people, or whatever equivalent gesture, they'd come and suck up the tiny bit of mana that came from your intent, and then they'd leave your house alone in order to preserve the regular supply.

A legend is a lie that has been whipped up to explain a universal truth.

la historia había reservado los altares y las estampitas para san Jorge, pero al dragón le había tocado la ciudad de Barcelona en perpetuidad

A large part of the mythology that develops around each of these doctrines, from its liturgy to its rules and taboos, comes from the bureaucracy generated as they develop and not from the supposed supernatural act that originated them.

Una leyenda es un pequeña mentira pergeñada para explicar una verdad universal.

Una leyenda es una mentira pergeñada para explicar una verdad universal.

of cattle, a bringer of dreams

The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom.

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Vampires, bringing America together!

In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.

I have examined all the known superstitions of the world,and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men women and children since the introduction of Christianity,have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth.

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place... many men say that there is written upon his tomb this verse: Hic jacet Arthurus, Rex quondam, Rexque futurus. Here lies Arthur, King that was, King that will be.

Era la sonrisa de Narciso al inclinarse sobre el agua.

era como una estrofa de un poema primitivo que hablara de los tiempos originarios, del comienzo de la forma y del nacimiento de los dioses.

For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.