Quotes About Mythology

I'm dating myself, but this was before Jesus Christ. We worshiped a God named Sashatiba, who had five eyes, including one on the Adam's apple.

Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.

Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.

These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.

A thoroughbred," "a pure pedigree," these figures of speech have replaced the "heavenly angel" and Ossianic nomenclature; the old mythology of love is extinct, doomed to perish by modern dandyism.

Nog voor de roep van Cantecleer Klinkt het geraaskal van Endymion Leer.

Nor does Apollo always stretch the bow.

The centuries roll back to the ancient age of gold.

I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.

May you say the things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them. G. B. Smith's words were a clear call to Ronald Tolkien to begin the great work that he had been meditating for some time, a grand and astonishing project with few parallels in the history of literature. He was going to create an entire mythology.

The average Pakistani student is brought up on a mix of dogma and mythology that does not encourage respect for facts or empiricism.

Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci' It's from Ovid. It means, 'A little phoenix is born anew from the father's body, fated to live the same number of years.

It was a modern folklorist name Adrienne Mayor who first noticed that the Ancient Greek stories of the griffin (which had the body of a lion, head and claws of an eagle, tail of a serpent) perfectly described a Protoceratops. The Greeks believed that the griffin guarded treasures of gold. Mayor discovered that fossilized skulls of Protoceratops were often found in Mongolia, where the Greeks traveled to trade for gold.

Australian aborigines have the oldest continuous culture in history, dating back almost 60,000 years. In their mythology, there was a time before humans that stretched back into eternity.

Tolkien had sent him a poem called "Kortirion Among the Trees". Kortirion represented Warwick in the early stages of Tolkien's mythology, and was the chief town, complete with tower, in a region of elms (Warwickshire) on the Lonely Island (England).

That, combined with the look of absolute rage on their faces, gave them the likeness of furies released from the depths to wage chaos on the living world

A mermaid's tears are precious. Sea glass is said to be made of mermaid tears.

Not surprisingly, the region also oozes Native American mysticism and legend. The Yuma culture was in the valley five thousand years before the birth of Christ.

The skinwalkers are regarded as selfish, greedy, and untrustworthy," Benyshek says. "If the Navajo knew someone to be a skinwalker, they would probably kill him, not ask for his help with the Utes. Besides, even if he was asked, the skinwalker would be unlikely to help the Navajo get revenge, since his motives are entirely evil and self-serving. From the Navajo perspective, this story doesn't make sense.

Stories have always been told, from the very beginning of existence; I'm just carrying on this tradition.

Iron will not touch you, lord. Stone will not break you. You are the Wolf and the sky father watches.

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.