Quotes About Mythology

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

Aphrodite just kept smiling.Because she was just doing what a goddess does-the same way that a tornado rips houses apart or a fire burns down a forest.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

ALATE POSTULATEWhen angels were invented, flight required wings

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

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

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

Impassionate gods have never seen the red that is the Tatsuta River. /????? ?????? ??? ??????? ??????

unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning

Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.

God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.