Quotes About Mythology

Woden's beard, it was her they were after. The maid.

Of all the gods nailed to the cross, Discord was the most beautiful.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

Così funziona. Quel Dio dell'Antico Testamento non contraddice il mondo in cui sono le cose adesso, ma assomiglia parecchio a Zeus. Sembra un uomo potentissimo che gioca con i suoi giocattoli come fanno i miei fratelli minori con i loro soldatini. Bang, Bang! Sette giocattoli cadono morti.

This could be a great time to live in," Kevin said once. "I keep thinking what an experience it would be to stay in it—go West and watch the building of the country, see how much of the Old West mythology is true.

God is Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay.' We decide which aspect we embrace

maybe in our bodies there's a whole world of mythology? Maybe there exists some sort of reflection of the great and the small, the human body joining within itself everything with everything - stories and heroes, gods and animals, the order of plants and the harmony of minerals?

It did take Odysseus twenty years." "That doesn't matter," the professor replied merrily. "In today's day and age you could do it in two weeks.

mitologi?, jako zbiór pouczaj?cych opowie?ci, które pomagaj? ?y?

The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift. A glorious gift.

The source of our laughter is the small stone that tumbled into a corner of Pandora's box.

Now there are fields of corn where Troy once was.

The gods have their own rules.

Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.

because we live in Mexico City, we make rounds with the spirits of Huitzilopochtli

Collective memory, the foundation of any culture's narrative, is a historical; mythology, laces with figments of truth, is essential to forming a country's founding identity and maintaining social cohesion.

Ullr, the Norse god of snow, was a favorite of local ski bums.

Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles … How the epithets pile up. We never called him any of those things; we called him 'the butcher'.

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

Rabies has a lot in Common with vampirism." said Adam

people needed to be turned into frogs. Or pigs.

Coyote," said Hopi Woman dryly, "doesn't much worry about understanding anything, which is why he understands so much.