Quotes About Mythology

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

is now evident that many events of biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in the Bible clearly never happened at all.

as historias se cuentan a si mismas, no las cuenta uno

We can tell this story without the help of the Devil, if it makes you more comfortable. Consider the story of the Greek Titan Prometheus. Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to mankind. As a punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock and he had his liver eaten out by a giant eagle. Then the liver grew back, and the eagle feasted again. In this way Prometheus was tortured for eternity. All of which illustrates a profound truth, which is that Gods are bastards.

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

That looks like a tree, let's call it a tree,' said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the rootdrinker patting their bellies.

the way to the bottom of South America where the Indians are seven feet tall and eat cocaine on the mountainside?

The whole mythological side of 'Twin Peaks' was really down to me, and I've always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century - W. B. Yeats, Madame Blavatsky, and a woman called Alice Bailey, a very interesting writer.

It generally happens that when actors do mythology shows, they get typecast, but it didnt happen with me.

I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're here, faith... all of these bigger questions that I think we can place in films that allow us to question and give us a safe place to feel. Those types of questions can pop up in all sorts of different types of films - drama, comedy, action movie.

The U.S. space program has mythologies attached to pioneering and conquering, but the Russian tradition is very different. In the Russian tradition, the ultimate goal of humanity was to resurrect all humans.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you'll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.

The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war.

If you survive in battle, it is with Odin's grace, and if you fall, it is because he has betrayed you.

Wisdom's daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome.

Never laugh at live dragons.

Philosophy of course is the essence of every religion; mythology explains and illustrates it by means of the more or less legendary lives of great men, stories and fables of wonderful things, and so on; ritual gives to that philosophy a still more concrete form, so that every one may grasp it — ritual is in fact concretised philosophy.