Quotes About Mythology

ardor which is tapas; the name Indra

The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years.

And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.

While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us, she said, at least, it shows them as no worse. See here the sources of human morality.

It is said that the dead forget the dead in the house of Hades, Cassandra, but I hoped it was not so.

So let sleeping wyverns lie.

He felt her cold lips touch his eyes, like coins for Charon. After a time he heard her singing... The song was a piece of forever.

The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character

In this mythology of seafaring, there is only one means to exorcise the possessive nature of the man on a ship; it is to eliminate the man and to leave the ship on its own. The ship then is no longer a box, a habitat, an object that is owned; it becomes a travelling eye, which comes close to the infinite; it constantly begets departures.

There are thus very engaging myths which are however not innocent.

The mythology of Einstein shows him as a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as of a functional labour analogous to the mechanical making of sausages, the grinding of corn or the crushing of ore: he used to produce thought, continuously, as a mill makes flour, and death was above all, for him, the cessation of a localized function: 'the most powerful brain of all has stopped thinking'.

printed fashion functions, semiologically speaking, like a true mythology of clothing: it is even because the vestimentary signified is here objectified, thickened, that fashion is mythic. So it is this mythology of clothing (one could also say its utopia) that needs to be the first stage of a vestimentary linguistics.

The last wendigo died in 1962, or so the story goes. Reputedly, he (it?) stood in front of the train to Churchill, Manitoba, believing that the train would stop for him, a supernatural being, and then he would be able to eat the passengers. The train ran him over. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Habitually, and perhaps unconsciously, Hubbard would fill this gap—between reality and his interpretation of it—with mythology. This was the source of what some call his genius and others call his insanity. WHEN

Echo was a young girl in love with Narcissus. But he loved himself, not her, so she pined away until just her voice was left.

My sister comes on like a box of nails, but her devotion to the mythic is profound.

don't. I don't know about you, but if I'm gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I'd rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn't have the sense to say to everyone, "Oh, hell no, you are not sacrificing me to some sea monster!

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.

A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.

Uno puede tomarse unas vacaciones de la realidad siempre que se le antoje, y volver de las mismas sin siquiera un dolor de cabeza o una mitología