Quotes About Mythology

Well done. Amon is indeed represented as a man with a ram's head, and his promiscuity and curved horns are related to our modern sexual slang "horny".' 'No shit!' 'No shit,' Langdon said. 'And do you know who Amon's counterpart was? The Egyptian goddess of fertility?

Gods have no gender.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. The rising and setting of the sun was once attributed to Helios and a flaming chariot. Earthquakes and tidal waves were the wrath of Poseidon. Science has now proven those gods to be false idols. Soon all Gods will be proven to be false idols.

Para el cerebro humano, cualquier respuesta es mejor que ninguna. Sentimos un tremendo desasosiego cuando nos encontramos ante "datos insuficientes", de modo que el cerebro los inventa para ofrecernos al menos una ilusión de orden mediante una miríada de filosofías, mitologías y religiones que nos aseguran que existen orden y estructura en el mundo.

From out of the brain flowed a stream of religious images—God reaching out to infuse Adam with life, Prometheus crafting a primordial human out of mud, Brahma creating humans from different parts of his own body, an African god parting the clouds and lowering two humans to earth, a Norse god fashioning a man and a woman out of driftwood.

Es el conflicto entre Apolo y Dioniso, un famoso dilema mitológico. La vieja batalla entre mente y corazón, que rara vez quieren lo mismo.

el autosacrificio de un hombre joven para redimir los pecados de su pueblo aparece en la tradición de Quetzalcóatl

Or are we?" Langdon intoned overhead. "We consider ourselves modern rational individuals, and yet our species' most widespread religion includes a whole host of magical claims—humans inexplicably rising from the dead, miraculous virgin births, vengeful gods that send plagues and floods, mystical promises

By a show of hands, Kirsch continued, how many of you believe in any of the following ancient gods: Apollo? Zeus? Vulcan? He paused, and then laughed. Not a single one of you? Okay, so it appears we are all atheists with respect to those gods. He paused. I simply choose to go one god further.

Let us imagine the reaction of humankind's future historians and anthropologists. With the benefit of perspective, will they look back on our religious beliefs and categorize them as the mythologies of an unenlightened time? Will they look at our gods as we look at Zeus? Will they collect our sacred scriptures and banish them to that dusty bookshelf of history?

guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.

Achilles pauses, looks over his shoulder at the masses of men behind him, turns back, looks past Zeus toward Olympos and the masses of gods in front of him, and then crooks his neck to look up again at towering Zeus. Surrender now, says Achilles, and we'll spare your goddesses' lives so they can be our slaves and courtesans.

If there really was a goddess like Sedna who ruled the world, her real name was Bitch Irony.

Las Parcas crearon e inicialmente controlaron el artefacto físico conocido como Alcaudón.

Yggdrasill—one of only five of its kind—into a war

las mujeres de Troya pueden ser más mortíferas que la mayoría de los hombres que ha conocido en su mundo de los siglos XX y XXI

tornadoes writhing and dropping down like the Medusa locks they were named after

habría dicho Quirón

In Ishmael I articulated a living mythology that is so integral to our culture that it's never examined or even noticed by anyone. It's like the sound of blood rushing through your veins—you hear it so constantly that you don't hear it at all.

WE NOW KNOW TWO HIGHLY important things about people," Ishmael said, "at least according to Taker mythology. One, there's something fundamentally wrong with them, and, two, they have no certain knowledge about how they ought to live—and never will have any. It seems as though there should be a connection between these two things.

To a mind ready for mythology, he was the beginning of what is meant by godlike.

The Gods have no mercy, that's why they're Gods.

Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.