Quotes About Mythology

All that remained of Daphne was her shining loveliness

Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua. — Venus & Adonis, May 1593

And last her voice remained. Vanished in forest

Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.

Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.

Christ on a cracker. You raped Achilles!

I want to be a Huntress when I grow up! shouted a voice from the throng. Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.

I'd yank that damn Seer Stone off, find Aphrodite, and give it to her to keep it safe like she was my Frodo.

He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

Peter looked at her gravely. I'm putting up with a lot for your sake, he said. You needn't. Why don't you go away? And leave you chained to the rock, Andromeda? Not for Perseus!

He's not human," Ajax blurted out. "Well, of course he bloody isn't," Agamemnon said. "His mother's a fish.

Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles.

People believed that whenever Helen cut a thread in her wool, a man died on the battlefield.

He gave a good yell, for Baba Yaga at her best caused strong windows to crack and fall out of their frames. From Baba Yaga and the Sorcerer's son

Egyptians built pyramids; Americans, skyscrapers; the megalithic Irish, mountain cairns. And while I admit it is impossible to be certain what Danu's people believed, the obsessive topping of Munster Hills with navel and nipples suggest they saw the land as a woman's body, the earth as feminine. And if so, what then? Did they imagine the earth acting like a woman, laughing, singing, weeping, taking a lover, nursing a child?

But myth making, as it turns out, is not the sole prerogative of religion. It is also a very active secular and academic pastime—and a human one as well; perhaps it is some kind of human necessity.

The Greek god Dionysus was a man-god said to be the "Son of Zeus." He was killed, buried, descended into hell, and rose from the dead to sit at the right hand of the father. His empty tomb at Delphi was long preserved and venerated by believers.

The Gospel writers wanted to make of their hero nothing less than what was claimed of saviors of other religions: a king born of a virgin.

Before returning to heaven, Mithra celebrated a Last Supper with his twelve disciples, who represented the twelve signs of the zodiac.

To sum up: 1) There is no external historical confirmation for the Jesus story outside of the New Testament. 2) The New Testament accounts are internally contradictory. 3) There are many other plausible explanations for the origin of the myth that do not require us to distort or destroy the natural worldview. 4) The miracle reports make the story highly suspect.

For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order—creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.

It's the conflict between Apollo and Dionysus—a famous dilemma in mythology. It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

By way of fairy tales, this primeval battle of good vs. evil is ingrained into us as children through our stories: Merlin vs. Morgan le Fay, Saint George vs. the Dragon, David vs. Goliath, Snow White vs. the Witch, and even Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader.

Dilema yang sangat terkenal dalam dunia mitologi: pertarungan abadi antara otak & hati, yang seringkali menginginkan hal yang berlawanan. (Apollo-Dionysus)