Quotes About Mythology

They said it was death to kill a sibyl, death to love a sibyl, death to be a sibyl … and they meant a living death.

It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.

Hyperion and

I don't know, Apollo," Hera said, shaking her head. "That was a little . . . repetitive.

Zap them, Bolt!" Immediately the thunderbolt took off after Hera and Poseidon. "No! Not them," Zeus called in the nick of time. "The Cronies!" That was what everyone called King Cronus's soldiers. Not to their faces, though, because they didn't like it one bit. The bolt screeched to a halt in midair. Then it switched directions and buzzed off toward the soldiers.

I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their best work.

Still, the mythology persists in SF, as elsewhere, that women are naturally gentler than men, that they are naturally less creative than men, or less intelligent, or shrewder, or more cowardly, or more dependent, or more self-centered, or more self-sacrificing, or more materialistic, or shyer, or God knows what, whatever is most convenient at the moment.

You told me ghouls were male. Rodan is male - and asinine. King Kong is male. I could've been a witch, but the Devil is male. Faust is male. The man who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima was male. I was never on the moon.

Their gods were back. Tiger Lily had Called them. And the Englanders were doomed.

Suddenly, the gods have stopped saying yes and have started making really obnoxious farting noises. In my face. With their armpits.

It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

In myth, women's boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is penetrated, she suffers metamorphoses. The women of mythology regularly lose their form in monstrosity.

In ancient Greek you use the verb ????????, which comes over into Latin as rapio, rapper, raptus sum and gives us English rapture and rape—words stained with the very early blood of girls, with the very late blood of cities, with the hysteria of the end of the world.

Although a monster Geryon could be charming in company.

what song of death, what dance of Hades shall I do?

It stung God. They say his spinal cord ran straight out of the sun.

He felt Herakles' hand move on his thigh and Geryon's head went back like a poppy in a breeze --

It was Sappho who likened a girl to an apple … and compared a bridegroom to Achilles. (Orationes 9.16)

Rape is the story of Helen, Persephone, Norma Jeane, Troy. War is the context and God is a boy.

Gone with the Wind" are just as decisive as the Oedipus complex

At its root, 'God of War' was always the promise of adventure.

So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones.

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.