Quotes About Mythology

But it was not to give him up to the gods that they killed him, not to "sacrifice" him in our sense, but to have him, keep him, eat him, live by him and through him, by his grace.

But it is equally clear and certain that the Dionysos of Greek worship and of the drama was not a babe in the cradle.

But if the Dithyrambos, the young Dionysos, like the Bull-God, the Tree-God, arises from a dromenon, a rite, what is the rite of second birth from which it arises?

The Titans were gone. They had clashed their last.

the Lord Ratnasambhava keeps all his treasure inside mongooses. When the god needs his gems and jewels, he squeezes one mongoose and makes it vomit them up!

Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.

Then again, could bed-hopping gods be any worse than the violent cartoons on TV today?

We who work in fantasy today take the threads from all the story tellers of the past. From the ancient, many colored threads we work to weave a new cloth. If the landscape, the characters, and the creatures here call up the old tales told the beside the fire, when stories went from mouth to ear instead of page to eye then I have woven well and the dreamer continues to dream.

a fundamental rule of journalism, which is to tell a story and stick to it. The narratives of journalism (significantly called "stories"), like those of mythology and folklore, derive their power from their firm, undeviating sympathies and antipathies. Cinderella must remain good and the stepsisters bad. "Second stepsister not so bad after all" is not a good story.

She cried so hard her tears formed a river, and tears of grief always run into the river Styx.

after a few centuries, the new pharaohs saw our kind as a threat instead of an asset. Too many of us existed. Had we wanted to, we could have challenged the pharaoh's armies. Pharaoh Mentuhotep the Second changed our name to the Setites, followers of the god Set, god of chaos, mischief, and evil.

Geldi?imiz yer ve bizi olu?turan ?ey 'Anne'dir. Mitolojide ve dinde, bu kaynak genellikle bir tür ana tanr?ça, ekseriyetle de bir okyanus tanr?ças? olarak tasvir edilir. Hayat?n nas?l okyanusta ba?lad??? dü?ünülüyorsa, insan hayat? da annede, daha do?rusu rahimde ba?lar. Dolay?s?yla, hem mitolojik düzeyde, hem de dünyevi düzeyde hayat?n kayna?? annedir.

La vida no es contable, y resulta extraordinario que los hombres lleven todos los siglos de que tenemos conocimiento dedicados a ello, empeñados en contar lo que no se puede, sea en forma de mito, de poema épico, de crónica, anales, actas, leyenda o cantar de gesta, romances de ciego o corridos, de evangelio, santoral, historia, biografía, novela o elogio fúnebre, de película, de confesiones, memorias, de reportaje, da lo mismo.

satan is a christian creation and you can keep him, thank you!

If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology.

I'm Homer, the blind brother.

Listen. This is the noise of myth. It makes the same sound as shadow. Can you hear it?

His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.

It is the men of this land who are bloodthirsty and they lay their own guilt on the gods.

He was softly breathing his life away, the dark blood flowing down his skin of snow and his eyes growing heavy and dim. She kissed him, but Adonis knew not that she kissed him as he died.

The influence of Greek art and literature became so powerful in Rome that ancient Roman deities were changed to resemble the corresponding Greek gods, and were considered to be the same. Most of them, however, in Rome had Roman names. These were Jupiter (Zeus), Juno (Hera), Neptune (Poseidon), Vesta (Hestia), Mars (Ares), Minerva (Athena), Venus (Aphrodite), Mercury (Hermes), Diana (Artemis), Vulcan or Mulciber (Hephaestus), Ceres (Demeter).

THE Greeks did not believe that the gods created the universe. It was the other way about: the universe created the gods. Before there were gods heaven and earth had been formed. They were the first parents. The Titans were their children, and the gods were their grandchildren

Appropriately, his bird was the vulture. The dog was wronged by being chosen as his animal.

sea, and was killed. The sea into which he fell was called the Aegean ever after.