Quotes About Mythology

telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.

Tagus! The horse-man

And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

sexual violence and rape in our oldest texts. These include the rape of Hera, Antiope, Europa and Leda, all by Zeus; Persephone by Hades; Odysseus by Calypso;

Tears upon the dry sponge of heart do not prove I am Promethean.

Greek mythology has always been my Achilles elbow.

The universal quest to find balance and harmony between men and women, beings who are at once so alike and so different, lies at the heart of all Amazon tales.

We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

The great god Pan is dead.

To be mortal means to die, and both Eve and Pandora bring death into the world. This is a curious rerversal of the fact that women bring life into the world, but it says something about the meaning of 'woman' within a religion dominated by male gods.

Susanoo-no-Mikoto plucked one of the hairs from his beard and transformed it into a sugi tree. Then he plucked a hair from his breast and turned it into a cypress tree. He took one from his buttock and turned that into a black pine tree, and one from his eyebrow, which he turned into a laurel.

The priestly redactor who set down the Genesis tale, an initiate and a believer, attributed to the `fruit' the gift of self-consciousness, a remarkable observation because self-consciousness is one of the major traits that distinguish humankind from all other creatures. Is it not surprising that the composer of the story gave credit for this particular gift to our mushroom? It is unlikely that he was alone in doing so.

Greek mythology tells of a beautiful youth who loved no one until the day he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with that reflection. He was so lovesick, he finally wasted away and died, and was turned into a flower that bears his name — Narcissus.

To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'

Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold of you, there's not much you can do.

If you like my renditions of faerie-folk, then you will most certainly like Brian Froud's work.

I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.