Quotes About Mythology

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

Angels, fairies, gods, hell-heaven, "mediating" messiahs, demons, spirits etc. - are but your cultural-isms. Free be of these prisons.

Eternity is a lie and Chiron was the messenger.

Io, Europa, Ganimedes puer, atque Calistolascivo nimium perplacuere Iovi.(Io, Europa, the boy Ganymede, and Callisto greatly pleased lustful Jupiter.)[Marius naming Jupiter's moons]

Ranulf Higden, a Benedictine monk who mapped the world about 1350, claimed that Africa contained one-eyed people who used their feet to cover their heads. A geographer in the next century announced that the continent held people with one leg, three faces, and the heads of lions. In 1459, an Italian monk, Fra Mauro, declared Africa the home of the roc, a bird so large that it could carry an elephant through the air.

say, 'There never was such a person as Homer,'" the English essayist Thomas De Quincey joked in 1841.

Achilles is fixed into rage, into the need to fulfill his fate, fixed into having to revenge the death of his friend Patroclus.

Todo es arduo, menos ser rey de dioses. Que, excepto Zeus, nadie en el mundo es libre.

The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?

There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.

The one place in which Gods and demons inarguably exist is in the human mind where they are real in all their grandeur and monstrosity.

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

The Ramayana has never been a tale of Ram's life. It is a tale of how Ram lived for others. By retelling his tale, storytellers hope to inspire themselves and others to live as Ram did.

Lakshmi massages Vishnu's feet. Is this male domination? Kali stands on Shiva's chest. Is this female domination? Shiva is half a woman. Is this gender equality? Why then is Shakti never half a man?

The elephant goad represents Yama, the god of death and bondage. Ganesha thus acknowledges the life-giving aspect of nature as well as the life-taking aspect of nature.

In time, Radha became a goddess in her own right, the symbol of sacrifice, surrender and unconditional love.

The Kamasutra warns that conception with women on top can alter the sexuality of the children conceived.

The notions of creation, preservation and destruction in Hindu mythology thus deal with culture, not nature.

In fact the English word 'demon' is full of a value judgement that is wrongly attributed to the words rakshasa and asura.

As Indra's wife, Lakshmi is known as Sachi and Indra is known as Sachin.