Quotes About Mythology

For a little while, maybe I did fall for my own mythology.

Of course, the whole mythology of the world of 'It' is very attractive to me.

Indian mythology and its characters have always fascinated me and I find the antagonists especially very interesting.

Hinduism especially - in the absence of codified rituals or a book of rules to circumscribe it - has always functioned as part philosophy, part mythology, leaving it open to competing and contradictory interpretations.

I'm extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths.

I am attracted to myths.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

The amount of sleep - the total amount of sleep that you get - starts to decrease the older that we get. I think one of the myths out there is that we simply need less sleep as we age, and that's not true, in fact.

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

I'm very interested in foundational narratives.

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.

Our males are of the darkness. Without our women, the other half of ourselves to provide the light, we become truly the vampires of the human legends.

Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves. Xenophanes

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.— Her lips suck forth my soul; see where it flies...

In the ancient world, blue was a breed of darkness.

En efecto, fue un macho beta sumamente habilidoso quien descubrió el fuego, aunque, como era de esperar, un macho alfa se lo arrebatara casi enseguida (los alfa fracasaron en el descubrimiento del fuego, pero, como no entendían que no había que agarrar el palo por el lado caliente y anaranjado, se les atribuye en cambio la invención de la quemadura de tercer grado).

los chinos pasan de la Navidad porque es una historia sin dragones ni petardos.

Si tuvierais más dioses, no os preocuparía tanto que se enfadara solo uno.