Quotes About Mythology

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive.

I think the myths are keeping us limited to, and tied to, what I would call the hyper-masculine tradition. All the major religions in the world have been founded by men and propagated by men.

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.

Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

"Aphrodite," she said. "Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom," Piper said, with no enthusiasm.

Your mom is a rainbow goddess?" "You got a problem with that?" "No, no. Rainbows. Very macho.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.

The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.