Quotes About Mythology

Men create the gods after their own images.

Fear is the mother of all gods.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

Fear first created the gods.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

Mythology is Fan Fiction - for the Gods.

Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.

God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

When dealing with the gods, one deals with danger.

The ancient god created the ancient man, i.e., the man capable of mistakes, ergo the ancient god himself made a mistake.

In ancient tales she could have been one of those divine creatures who borrow their mothers' wombs to enter the mortal world and make a name for themselves, as a heroine or a devil, depending on the intention of the heavenly powers.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

However, over the last few decades the life sciences have reached the conclusion that this liberal story is pure mythology. The single authentic self is as real as the eternal soul, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. If I look really deep within myself, the seeming unity that I take for granted dissolves into a cacophony of conflicting voices, none of which is 'my true self'. Humans aren't individuals. They are 'dividuals'.

distortions of ancient traditions characterize all religions.

Much of ancient mythology is in fact a legal contract in which humans promise everlasting devotion to the gods in exchange for mastery over plants and animals

El cristiano cree en el Dios monoteísta, pero también en el Diablo dualista, en santos politeístas y en espíritus animistas.