Quotes About Mythology

He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!

When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.

Twice and twice shall he be marked, twice to live, and twice to die. Once the heron, to set his path. Twice the heron, to name him true. Once the Dragon, for remembrance lost. Twice the Dragon, for the price he must pay.

Twice the Dragon, for the price he must pay.

Archetypes cannot be banished or wished away.

It matters what myths we tell ourselves -- which ideals we choose to honor.

In a semi-secularized and rampantly pluralized world in which the hold of objective religious truth is increasingly problematic, but in which religious questions and yearnings are certainly real, mythology is a viable and not ignoble alternative to a stark choice between dogmatic religion and sheer secularism.

If the bards of old the true has told The sirens have raven hair. But over the earth since art had birth, They paint the angels fair.

GREAT SKY WOMAN  and SHADOW VALLEY, adventures set 30,000 years

In the midst of a hive of customers and clerks, a small boy with blond hair neatly parted on one side stares up into the face of a bronze sculpture. It is Cuchulainn himself---the warrior light. The Hound of Coolan lashed to a boulder with spear drawn. But The Hound is leaning to one side and dying in a public hall of the Dublin Post Office.

Edward glanced at me, then back at Olaf. The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart, male and female. The Greeks thought that when you found the other half of your soul, your soul mate, that it would be your perfect lover. But I think if you find your other half, you would be too much alike to be lovers, but you would still be soul mates.

I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,like a vicious version of Athena.

Do you have a problem with us hunting down and killing a god from your pantheon? If it is a god, then you cannot kill it, and if you can kill it, then it is not a god. I do not mourn the death of false gods.

Apparently the Irish Fey answered direct questions, but what you didn't ask, they didn't answer, even if logically it was connected.

I'd once asked Jean-Claude what they called Renfields before the release of the book Dracula in 1897. Jean-Claude had said, "Slaves." He'd probably been kidding, but I'd never had the heart to ask again. The

If, said Jane, ignoring him as only Jane dared, someone were to speak to her; if someone were to suggest . . . Ah. Vaughn's lips compressed, as the whole fiasco suddenly fell into place. That's what you want of me. To play Hermes for you. We can't all be Zeus, Jane said apologetically. Prolonged exposure to Jane was enough to make anyone take to Bacchus. I'm afraid I've left my winged shoes at home.

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

Eve ate the apple because Adam was afraid

That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)

God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God.

Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.