Quotes About Mythology

But I've always been a sucker for a good double entendre; the gap between what is said and what is thought, what is stated and what is implied, is a place in which I have always found myself. I'm really not a liar, I just learned very early on that those of us deprived of history sometimes need to turn to mythology to feel complete, to belong.(p10)

Could she have known that it was her own image that, Waldo wrote, "rose before me at times into heroical & godlike regions, and I could remember no superior women"? Indeed, to Waldo, who had once unkindly disrupted her Conversations on classical myth, Margaret was best compared to "Ceres, Minerva, Proserpine, and the august ideal forms of the Foreworld." He had not told her this, but perhaps somehow she knew.

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

Once they take you and you taste the food…you cannot come back. You are changed…and live with them for ever. —The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz (1911)

At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

Archaeological, mythological and historical evidence all reveal that the female religion, far from naturally fading away, was the victim of centuries of continual persecution and suppression by the advocates of the newer religions which held male deities as supreme. And from these new religions came the creation myth of Adam and Eve and the tale of the loss of Paradise.

The image of Eve is not our image of woman.

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

From India to the Mediterranean, in fact, she reigned supreme, often appearing as the unmarried goddess.

Among the most popular and evocative of medieval myths is that of Lohengrin, the "Swan Knight.

Before traveling to Iceland, I made a vow to myself that there were two subjects that I would not mention: Björk and elves.

Respect the Sword, Grimm.

No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.

As you know, Felix is a co-religionist of yours. He will be speaking on the spirituality of pan-mythology", said the President.

What was the world's first computer? An Apple. Eve gave one to Adam.

Had in him those brave translunary thingsThat the first poets had.

Why do you think there are no gods on Mount Olympus now? They killed themselves, that's why. They were terminally bored.

A Three-headed Dog

Nicholas Flamel

The Aesir will not fight you. There is no honor in slaying a woman.

For every culture-hero living out his myth, there must be a witness willing to pass the story on. Then

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.

Every childhood has a mythology that materialises around it. We add our own desires and dreams until the stories become like parables that are more emblematic than edifying.

Women have been deceiving men since the Garden of Eden. They've had centuries of practice.