Quotes About Mythology

Oh Mnemosyne, sweetest and most mischievous of muses

Eriti olulist rolli mängisid vanemad inimesed. Lapsi kasvatasid tavaliselt vanavanemad, kuna arvati, et vanematel oli igapäevaelus niigi palju tegemist ning neil polnud piisavalt elutarkust, mida lastele edasi anda. Vanemad inimesed olid ja on hoolitsuse ja moraalse toe pakkujad ning jutuvestjatena on nad hõimu mütoloogilise ja vaimse pärandi edasikandjad. Kogukonna pühade traditsioonide edasikandmise eest vastutavad eelkõige nemad.

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Every people had a story of how the world had come about, the boss said, and every one was as valid as the next and just about as true.

We are here making myths that are, at the same time, absolutely true.

Know ye yet the edda? Know ye yet it all?

In 1513, only six years before Magellan undertook his circumnavigation, Juan Ponce de León set out to find the Fountain of Youth.

Your mythology can and will change as you grow older and you learn more about life and the spiritual worlds. You are free to abrogate as many verses of your gospel as you wish, and even to be your own heretic.

However, to the Gnostics, the Christos is an Aeon, dwelling in the Pleroma. The Christos is the syzygy (male Aeonic consort) of Sophia.

The Pleroma plays a central role the Gnostic cosmology. The Pleroma has a physical location in the astronomical mythology of Gnosticism; it is situated in the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Our society needs a functional mythology of the Dark. We need a spirituality that reminds us that we have to share one half of our existence with the Dark. We can do this willing or unwillingly. The paradox must be lived in our lives in order for us to be truly enlightened.

Marduk may be able to be revived. He may already be revived, for the reader may recall that it was precisely Father Enki who revived Inanna previously. Therefore, the technology was available, and possibly Enki revived Marduk.

There are many mythical journeys in the world's mythologies. For example, in Islam there is the crossing of the razor sharp bridge known as the siratul mustaqim. In Celtic mythology, Lancelot crossed a 'sword bridge.' The Zoroastrians crossed the Chinvat bridge.

Swords and Spears of Light appear in the Irish and Welsh belief systems. Many of these Gods and Goddesses belonged to a family called the "Tuatha De Danaan." Their name means "Family of the Goddess Danu." They arrived in Ireland in ships that floated in the air. Ogma, known as the "Splendor of the Sun," brought the Sword of Light from Findrias. Findrias is the cloud-fair city that is in the east of the Tuatha De Danaan world.

Modernleri büyüleyen, Yunanistan'?n en az apolloncu yönü kadar dionizoscu yönü de olmu?tur. Üç yüzy?ld?r, Eski Yunan mitoslar?n? yeni ba?tan yorumluyor Avrupa; Avrupal? yazarla­r? büyüleyen, bu mitoslar?n ilkel ve ha?in taraflar?. Yunan ve Latin edebiyatlanna ancak ?u manada klasik demek yerindedir: mekteplerde okutulurlar ve her zaman tazedirler.

In the island the gods are killed, killed like animals. And the man who kills a god becomes a god himself.

As the search continues for an understanding of the archetypal images, Jung would probably have us remember that an archetype is a hypothetical model, something like the 'pattern of behaviour' in biology. The portraits of the Goddesses in patriarchal mythology are, indeed, patterns of behaviour: They are stories told by men of how women react under patriarchy.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they are. Both are in service to an emerging story of the People that is the defining mythology of a new kind of civilization.

We never were separate from nature and never will be, but the dominant culture on earth has long imagined itself to be apart from nature and destined one day to transcend it. We have lived in a mythology of separation.

The rainbow, "the bridge of the gods," proved to be the bridge to our understanding of light — much more important.

Wie tief im Menschen leben jede jener Fabeln: wurzelt, auf welche die großen alten Werke gebaut sind.

Once when there were no rivers on the earth, the Jade Dragon was in charge of clouds. She decided when and where the clouds would rain upon the land and when they would stop. She was very proud of her power and of the reverence the people of earth paid her. Jade Dragon had four dragon children: Pearl, Yellow, Long, and Black. They were large and strong and good and kind. They helped Jade Dragon with her work, and whenever they flew in the sky she was overwhelmed with love and pride.

the Black Tortoise