Quotes About Mythology

that the reason Athena had sprung 'full blown' from the mind of Zeus was because she was an idea, given by Greek men to their God; and that 'idea' was the destruction of the African Goddess Isis and the metamorphosis of Isis into the Greek Goddess Athena.

What if Icarus hadn't hurtled into the sea? What if he'd inherited his parent's inventive bent? What might have wrought?

Clytemnestra

and he imagines cars and rides them in his dreams, so lonely growing up among the imaginary automobiles and dead souls of Tarrytown to create out of his own imagination the beauty of his wild forebears - a mythology he cannot inherit.

BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

BRAHMA, n. He who created the Hindoos, who are preserved by Vishnu and destroyed by Siva—a rather neater division of labor than is found among the deities of some other nations.

The elves knew the true names of these rivers,' said Skifr, who'd made a kind of bed among the cargo to drape herself on. 'We call them Divine and Denied because those are as close as our clumsy human tongues can come.

What's your real name?" I asked. "Zusane," she said. "Zusane Zaksauskas. But now I am Gobija, goddess of fire.

Tko npr. formulira govor o Bogu Abrahamovu, Izakovu i Jakovljevu tako da se u njemu više ne ?uje Jobov uzdisaj i tužaljka 'Ta dokle još?', taj se ne bavi teologijom nego mitologijom.

Listen to that lovely music, Better than mythology! Your gods, elderly and antique, Give them up, they're now passé. Those old tales have lost all meaning, We aim at a higher goal: From the soul must come the feeling That can move another's soul.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.

While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats into heaven.

sky. Those elms were Dryads—so Rickie believed or pretended, and the line between the two is subtler than we admit.

Ah! Tanr?lar, kendi hikayesini yazabilen ölümlüleri e?itleri gibi severler.

B'gwus is famous because of his wide range of homes. In some places, he's called Bigfoot. In other places, he's Yeti, or the Abominable Snowman, or Sasquatch. To most people, he is the equivalent of the Loch Ness monster, something silly to bring the tourist in. His image is even used to sell beer, and he is portrayed as a laid-back kind of guy, lounging on mountaintops in patio chairs, cracking open a frosty one.

Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)

He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek.

No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

The early Greek mythologists transformed a world full of fear into a world full of beauty.

Tell him, too," she said, "never to pluck flowers, and to think every bush may be a goddess in disguise.