Quotes About Mythology

Phoebus amat visaeque cupit conubia Daphnes, quodque cupit, sperat, suaque illum oracula fallunt ??

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

We've worshipped lots of gods in our history," she said. "We've killed most of them. You might want to be wary.

Furies, Alecto. In classic mythology, Tisiphone and Megaera and Alecto, daughters of the earth goddess Gaea, punished crimes in the name of the victims.

was the messenger of other gods, valued for his tremendous speed;

thought of the Roman deity Diana, goddess of the moon

Atropos was the goddess who cut the thread of life.

you have a great deal of time to fill. The most pleasant way to fill it is by studying and learning things. One of the things Woody had greatly enjoyed learning was classical mythology.

In Greek mythology, Gordius was a peasant who became king of Phrygia. He tied an extremely complicated knot—the famous Gordian knot—that no one could untie. When Alexander learned that

Once in a while I lie there, as the television runs, and I read something wild and ancient from one of several collections of folktales I own. Apples that summon sea maidens, eggs that fulfill any wish, pears that make people grow long noses that fall off again. Then sometimes I get up and don my robe and go out into our quiet neighborhood looking for a magic thread, a magic sword, a magic horse.

You can have mythic allusions in houses with flat roofs, and you can also play on the roof.

Owls are keepers of the dead, but not just the dead. They're messengers between worlds.

Ute McGillivray looked like a Valkyrie on a starchy diet;

Well, legends are many-legged beasties, aye? But they generally have at least one foot on the truth.

It's two hundred year, in the Highland tales—when folk fall asleep on fairy duns and end up dancing all night wi' the Auld Folk; it's usually two hundred year later when they come back to their own place.

According to the vicar, many of the local folk thought the War was due in part to people turning away from their roots and omitting to take proper precautions, such as burying a sacrifice under the foundation, that is, or burning fishes' bones on the hearth—except haddocks, of course," he added, happily distracted. "You never burn a haddock's bones—did you know?—or you'll never catch another. Always bury the bones of a haddock instead.

Aye. Fionn and the Feinn, ye ken." "Gaelic folktales

the Two Brothers stone, and that was Norse, wasn't it?

Every legend has one foot on the truth.

In the beginning, Yullyeo was reborn several times and the stars appearedl; Mago and Mago Castle emerged from Yullyeo

The resurrection of Jesus is pure myth.

I don't know about you, the world is here to be mythologized. It has, therefore, no other end. Transforming into myth, to be a myth! That's what we call eternity.

Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough

I'm accustomed to thinking of literature as a search for knowledge; in order to move onto existential terrain I need to consider it in relation to anthropology, ethnology, and mythology.