Quotes About Mythology

The dragon is a creature of the imagination, because dragons do not exist.

Wow! When you become a vampire, men become broad shouldered and muscle-bound and women become tall and thin! You ever think of selling this on QVC?

I was drawn to authors and others who were explicitly outside of the Christian tradition . . . Such as Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth), Robert Bly (Iron John), Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements), and Sam Keen (Fire in the Belly). I also re-read Viktor Frankl's classic Man's Search for Meaning (which my daughter Lizz and my wife Sue also read while Lizz was away).

It does seem somewhat classical. One can hardly credit that Dante did actually get shown around Hell.

These idiot Satanists have been dancing through the woods at midnight for centuries, and they've never succeeded in summoning up the dead before.

I can't imagine that anything like the Christian image of hell actually exists. But lately I've been wondering about the ancient Greenlandic realm of the dead. If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.

(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.