Quotes About Mythology

The thing about creatures as big as the Jotun is that they come without power steering.

One of the Old Ones is known as the Sleeper. It's said his tomb is somewhere under the Pacific. And that goddamned moron Lovecraft published stories and easy-to-remember rhymes about the thing.

What followed was . . . one of those things I still have dreams about sometimes. It was like looking at something straight out of mythology.

It's up to poets to revive the gods.

Yahweh, identified as Enlil.

So down and down and down and down And down and down we go Hurry my darling we mustn't be late For the show Neptune champion games to an aqua World so very dear Right this way smiles a mermaid I can hear Atlantis full of cheer.

Persephone!

Hero-ology, Spell-ology, Revenge-ology, Beast-ology, and Beautyology.

I think you should take that trident of yours and stick it up your nose, fishboy!

Yeah, I have a feeling I'm going to be very happy at Mount Olympus Academy," said Athena. Smiling, she tugged Pallas toward the stairs. "C'mon. I can hardly wait to show you around!

King Arthur is treated like George Washington often is—as a hero who is so noble and so far above the common man that he seems more like a stuffed owl than a real person.

But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair. I never did, snapped Loki crossly. Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?

Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies.

Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki

Non ci sono demoni ma una serie di archetipi comuni a ogni civiltà.

Does that mean I can't hammer him?' said Thor. Heimdall scowled. 'Not yet,' he said.'When can I hammer him, please?' said Thor.

I'm warning you now, said Freyja stiffly, I have...certain issues...with Loki. (Maddy wondered briefly whether there was anyone in the Nine Worlds who didn't have issues with Loki.)

You're really that good? he said at last. Loki shrugged. I'm Loki.

And I, her daughter, listening wide-eyed to her charming apocrypha, with tales of Mithras and Baldur the Beautiful and Osiris and Quetzalcoatl all interwoven with stories of flying chocolates and flying carpets and the Triple Goddess and Aladdin's crystal cave of wonders and the cave from which Jesus rose after three days, amen, abracadabra, amen.

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

Ancient Egyptians believed that the first and most necessary ingredient in the universe was chaos. It could sweep you away, but it was also the place from which all things start anew.

Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.

Under the glimmer of moonlight among towering forest trees, walks the goddess Artemis. Close to her side she carries with her a silver bow and arrows.