Quotes About Mythology

Since Mahadev' ended, I was waiting to play more larger than life characters.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

You don't create legends out of other legends.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

On 'Supergirl,' there are huge characters with huge mythologies behind them. What's important is that you don't lock yourself into something.

I grew up having a sense of who Luke Skywalker is.

I used to read a lot of books and magazines about Dracula.

All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending, and either way he's carrying a gun. This is one of the essential images in American mythology.

When the Old God leaves the world, what happens to all the unexpended faith?

It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men.

will pay attention to the role of stories [and] myths . . . .

I] thought of that line from The Iliad I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible eyes shining.

No. I've always been drawn to broken, wild terrain. The oddest tongues come from such places, and the strangest mythologies, and the oldest cities, and the most barbarous religions

With the men standing between five feet eight and five feet ten, they were inches taller than the average Spanish soldier—taller than Cushing. The twice repulsion of a formidable conquistador and the dispossession of his dreams made the Calusa larger-than-life figures in European New World mythology.

Valkyrietype

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

We prostrate ourselves before the fish-god Yob, who seems as efficacious as any.

Romulus and Remus, twin sons of dark Mars and a human vestal, sucking at the dugs of a wolf bitch.

In mythology and religion, no less than in other spheres of life there is much in the way of self-serving interests, deceitfulness, mindlessness, and vices. This has to be so because it is a human creation and everything human is tainted and corrupt.

In mythology and religion, no less than in other spheres of life there is much in the way of self-serving interests, deceitfulness, mindlessness, and vices.

the three-leafed seamair óg holds the true luck—the luck of knowing Brigid.

Woden, Thor, and Tiu