Quotes About Mythology

Lugh's walking stick ate the Gray Lord's spell, and in doing so, it died. To save me.

Kriemhild," she said. "One of the names given to Siegfried's wife in the Norse sagas. I always liked it better than Gutrune, which was the one Wagner used.

Are you not my daughter, whispered another voice, Coyote's voice

I have had as many names as there are years to time itself! roared the monster. I am Herne the Hunter! I am Cernunnos! I am the eternal Green Man!

Todo vuelve a las cenizas, así que esta carne también arderá. Pero yo soy Tehlu. Hijo de mí mismo. Padre de mí mismo. Yo estaba antes, y estaré después. Si soy un sacrificio, lo soy únicamente a mí mismo. Y si alguien me necesita y me invoca de la forma correcta, volveré para juzgar y castigar.

Interviewer: In terms of the wider mythology for your world, do we detect Christian influences? Pat: What it has is the archetype of the self-sacrificing god. But honestly, by the time Jesus did that, it was old news. A bunch of people did it before Jesus—and, to be fair, some people did it better

Hermes was always moving, even when he stood still. Think of him as a god with ADHD on a double espresso in a room full of shiny objects. Some

Hercules came through the roof like a cannonball, his lion-skin trench coat wrapped around him. When I say cannonball, I mean both the metal ball and the type people do off a diving board. It was especially impressive when you realize we were in a five story building. Hermes

They had no communal mythology; no tales of treason, treasure, and snow forts. It was a safe existence but not a fairy-tale one.

Ve o an dü? gören herkesin kendi devirlerindekileri dü?ledi?ini geçirmi?tim akl?mdan. Antik Yunan uygarl??? kendi tanr?lar?n?n dü?lerini kurdu. Emily Brontë çorak arazilerin.

Like it or not, after Freud, no one had to read Sophocles to know something about Oedipus.

The gods looked down from their mountain and shrugged.

SET, OR SETH, whom the Greeks called Typhon, the nefarious demon of death and evil in Egyptian mythology, is characterised as "a strong god (a-pahuti), whose anger is to be feared.

the deluge, of the tower of Babel, of the destruction of corrupt cities by a rain of fire (reminding us of Sodom and Gomorrah), of the babyhood adventures of King Sargon I. (reminding us of Moses), and of the creation of the world.

source. The legend of the deluge[14] agrees in all important details with the analogous story in Genesis.

that Chaldea was the original home of these stories and that the Jews received them originally from the Babylonians

Da ward sie zu einer Kuh; er aber ward zu einem Stier und begattete sich mit derselben. Daraus entstand das Rindvieh.

Ziggy was David's homage to the outsider; the main inspiration was undoubtedly Iggy, the singer with whom David was obsessed and whose doomed, Dionysian career path had already built its own mythology. David was well aware that Iggy, too, was a mere creation—for in their first meeting, David had learned the scary, gold-and-glitter-spattered facade hid another persona—the urbane Jim Osterberg, who was disconcertingly reminiscent of Jimmy Stewart.

O tempo fica cada vez mais lento e eu lendo lendo lendo vou acabar virando lenda

The sky was black, deep, infinite, the very thing that scared the Greeks and all the other ancients.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece

Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true

If ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, a knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

A loftier Argo cleaves the main, Fraught with a later prize; Another Orpheus sings again, And loves, and weeps, and dies. A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shore.