Quotes About Mythology

And that was you?" Dee breathed, looking from Marethyu to Abraham. "I thought I was working for Isis and Osiris." Death's blue eyes crinkled. "You are, but sometimes you-and they-are working for me.

Jullie dragen de genen van de oorspronkelijke tweeling die tien millennia geleden op Danu Talis heeft gevochten. Sophie, jij en je broer zijn de afstammelingen van goden. - Nicolas Flamel

that Isis and Osiris are not their parents

The sliding glass door opened and Isis and Osiris appeared. They were dressed in plain white ceramic armor and were each carrying two swords, one in each hand. "They look like they just stepped out of Star Wars ," Josh muttered. He began to hum the Imperial March under his breath.

Vóór de Alouden hebben de twaalf Archonen over de wereld geheerst.' 'Vóór de Alouden?' 'De wereld is ouder en woester dan je denkt.' De kraaiengodin glimlachte. 'Veel ouder. Veel woester.

Dee kromp in elkaar en probeerde zich zo klein mogelijk te maken. 'Meesters,' zei hij. 'Vergeef me.' Het paar negeerde hem. Ze staarden naar de tweeling. 'Sophie,' zei de man. 'Josh,' zei de vrouw. 'Mam... pap,' zei de tweeling in koor. Het paar maakte een buiging. 'Hier heten we Isis en Osiris. Welkom in Danu Talis, kinderen. Welkom thuis.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

By now the valley of the shadow of doubt was overrunneth with skepticism, so God became angry, so angry that God lost His temper and cursed the first humans, telling them to go forth and multiply themselves (but not in those words). But the humans took God literally and now there are six billion of them.

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

What is the probability that Yahweh is the one true god, and Amon Ra, Aphrodite, Apollo, Baal, Brahma, Ganesha, Isis, Mithra, Osiris, Shiva, Thor, Vishnu, Wotan, Zeus, and the other 986 gods are false gods? As skeptics like to say, everyone is an atheist about these gods; some of us just go one god further.

Take what you see on TV, mix in a guy who's turned 30 and still doesn't have a job, throw in some Uncle Remus stories and add a few flies in amber and you have America.

L'ARBRE GEANT FREMISSAIT sous les coups de hache. A coté du colosse végétal, les hommes à la peau sombre, luisante de sueur, ressemblaient à des miniatures mouvantes. [...] La grande forêt pris le deuil. Les bruits les plus fantastiques se mirent à courir : on avait tué l'Arbre-Dieu.

Para comemorar devidamente a reconciliação do homem consigo mesmo, é preciso antes de mais nada acabar com os mundos remotos, os céus e supostos lugares de residência das ideias, das essências, das divindades. Esses espaços são míticos, sonhados e supostos. Não têm nenhuma existência, a não ser fantasística.

In Egypt, there is a saying: When good fortune looks down upon us, it does so in threes, one for each part of the Eye of Horus. His upper lid, his lower lid and the eye itself.

I can understand why the Vikings believed in storm giants. I keep having to remind myself that there is no intention behind this. It feels so angry. As if it wants to tear apart the cabin and carry me off into the night.

Craters on Mercury have to be named for deceased poets; moon of Uranus are named for Shakespearean characters. For this type of object in the Kuiper belt, the rules said that the name had to be a creation deity in a mythology

Los Cuatro Jinetes ya cabalgan por el mundo. Oscureceremos el sol, haremos sangrar a la luna y apagaremos las estrellas.

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

and I guessed he was constructing the perfect question for me, a fantastic question that I would have to rise up to, drawing from everything I knew about myself and mythology and this black earth.

Sigur c? lumea româneasc? este cum este ÅŸi are miturile ei fundamentale, care nu sunt MioriÅ£a ÅŸi MeÅŸterul Manole, ci capra vecinului ÅŸi povestea din iad, nu? În cazanul românilor, unde niciun român nu iese la suprafa?? fiindc?-l trag ceilalÅ£i de picioare. AÅŸa c? diavolii ÅŸomeaz?.

Unas eats their magic, swallows their spirits: Their big ones are for his morning meal, Their middle ones for his evening meal, Their little ones for his night meal, And the oldest males and females for his fuel Utterances 273·274 Antechamber, East WaU The kingfeeds on thegods

In the world's oldest creation myths, the female god creates the world out of her own body. The Great Mother everywhere was the active and autonomous creatrix of the world . . . and, unlike the aloof and self-righteous patriarchal gods who only recently usurped her mountain-throne, the ancient Goddess was always there—alive, immanent—within her creation; no ontological scapegoater, she was wholly responsible for both the pain and the good of life.

C'è stato un tempo in cui osavo sognare che Miriam e io, superati i novanta, saremmo spirati insieme, come Filemone e Bauci. E allora un munifico Zeus, con un lieve tocco del caduceo, ci avrebbe trasformato in due alberi vicini, coi rami che si sfiorano d'inverno, le foglie che si intrecciano a primavera.