Quotes About Mythology

She is a little too revered sometimes and people forget to speak to her as if she was a human being. It can get lonely on Olympus.

We are the children of gods and angels.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

The only group of Atlanteans that was truly successful in transplanting their knowledge to a new location was the group that landed in what is now Egypt.

Al principio eran ninfas de blancos brazos y turgentes pechos que seducían a los hombres; pero luego, cuando cundió la voz y los jóvenes ya no eran tan incautos de dejarse dominar por la lujuria, las náyades se mostraban en su verdadera forma, y de las aguas surgían largos brazos cubiertos de escamas verdes que arrastraban a sus presas a las honduras de los ríos y los estanques para ahogarlos.

De los bosques salían ménades y sátiros furiosos que exterminaban aldeas enteras. Sólo mataban, sin saquear como hacían los humanos, puesto que aquellos seres de la espesura no ambicionaban posesiones materiales.

Atenea se dio cuenta de que todas las miradas estaban clavadas en ella; y, en el caso de los hecatonquiros, eso significaba muchos ojos.

Qué podían saber los demás dioses, que por miedo a la muerte habían renunciado a la vida hacía tanto tiempo?

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Fiecare no?iune, fiecare familie, fiecare individ are o mitologie care d? culoare existen?ei sale.

I was the victim of another American myth, namely that things can actually change for the better, that if you try hard enough you can transform the lead of your crummy self into some golden ideal.

The conformity demanded of men in our patriarchal culture is like Procrustes' bed in Greek mythology. Travelers on their way to Athens were placed on this bed. If they were too short, they were stretched to fit, as on a medieval torture rack; if they were too tall, they were merely cut down to size.

there is no word in Hebrew for "goddess," so the word cannot appear in the Old Testament.

Se le vie marittime non si lasciano circoscrivere facilmente forse è perché sono intrecciate di racconti e le leggende: le carte su cui sono state segnate sono forse immaginarie, gli scritti che le accompagnano inventati

T'u-küelerin devletinde bayrak, alt?ndan bir kurt ba??yla süslüdür; bu sadece bir figür olmaktan ziyade, ?üphesiz alt?nla kaplanm?? gerçek bir kafatas?d?r. Hükümdar?n kap?s?n?n giri?ine yere dikilir ve yürüyen ordunun önünde ta??n?r. Bundaki amaç, yaln?zca toplanmak de?il, ayn? zamanda efsanede oldu?u gibi Kurdun halk?na liderlik etmesidir.

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

Atticus, Dan is right, Atlantis is a myth." "Everybody was pretty sure Troy was a myth," Jake said. "Until Calvert and Schliemann found it.

pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.

Because sports and mythology often intertwine, the Game 6 narrative has often been one that evokes the best of a cheesy feel-good Hollywood production. Not only did Johnson take the jump ball, he won it, dribbled down the court, did a 360-degree midair flip and dunked over Julius Erving—blindfolded while eating a slice of cheesecake. Not quite.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

Alma sat down and waited. She thought of the story the Reverend Welles had told her of Taroa, the original god of the Tahitians. Taroa, the creator. Taroa, born in a seashell. Taroa lay silently for countless ages as the only thing living in the universe. The world was so empty that when he called out across the darkness, there was not even an echo. He nearly died of loneliness. Out of that inestimable solitude and emptiness, Taroa brought forth our world.

The demiurge is a hybrid

Connectedness is of the essence of all things of all types. It is of the essence of types, that they be connected. Abstraction from connectedness involves the omission of an essential factor in the fact considered. No fact is merely itself. The penetration of literature and art at their height arises from our dumb sense that we have passed beyond mythology; namely, beyond the myth of isolation.