Quotes About Mythology

As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield... But who was she?

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

A lot of stuff I was reading in mythology was about how women used to be taught to be wild. The wild woman was an essence that existed in the world. We're still coming back from many years of us being chiseled out to be identical and quiet.

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered.

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

It is a terrible thing to become a legend in your own time.

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

Terry Gilliam has directed some of the best examples of what I like to see in a film - one of them being 'Baron Munchausen.'

The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

From the Old Testament, containing the Atlantean Mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another, as is the case with some plants today.

'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

While Mark Antony paraded as Dionysus, and Sextus Pompey claimed Neptune as his father, Octavian officially called himself Divi filius, at the same time invoking the patronage of Apollo.

Plutarch (Num., 21, 3) makes the Pinarii descendants of a certain Pinus, son of Numa.

Anything but history, for history must be false.

As Camus' reworking of the myth reveals, liberty can be found in the oddest of places—even Oran or Hades.

A life in which the gods are not invited is not worth living. It will be quieter, but there won't be any stories.

Yahweh was, among many other things, an allegorist.

Then the gods realized they must create substitutes for themselves: men. But how? For them to be truly alive, a god must die.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

Reality is often unkind to legends.

I am too swift of tongue. But I think that is the best way to talk to a dragon.