Quotes About Mythology

Answer my question, Bacchus. I'm not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You better take a more civil tone with me, Cam. I'm not one of your flaccid Celts to shake in terror of your wrath. You want to fight, boy, bring it on. (Dionysus) Whoa, hang on a second. Let's save the fighting for when you two take over the world, okay? (Styxx)

If Apollo caught sight of him outside or near a window during the light of day, Talon would be nothing more than a strip of fried bacon on the sidewalk. Extra-crispy Celt didn't appeal to him in the least.' (Talon)

He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.

There's a reason Mia is currently an only child. Family drama takes on a whole new meaning when they're feuding gods who can't stand the sight of each other and always try to kill one another whenever they're in the same room." – Kat

Every great legend begins with that one person who raises an angry fist to the sky and flips off the gods in defiance. Acheron

Astrid or Aphrodite, she is my Circe. only instead of turning a man into an animal, she has made the animal human --Zarek

She'd been conceived as a goddess of justice. But this wasn't just. It wasn't right. And her husband's wrongful death would not go unavenged. Kissing cold lips Bathymaas laid him on the ground and covered his body with her cloak. Artemis gasped and shrank away from her as she rose to her feet and turned towards Apollo and his mother. For this, there would be hell to pay. And hers would be the hand that gathered the payment.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

Once upon a time, there were two moons, who were sisters. Nitid was the goddess of tears and life, and the sky was hers. No one worshipped Ellai but secret lovers.

In Truk, located in the Marshall Islands, people have traditionally believed in an outer world that corresponds in some ways to our modern conception of outer space.

People in Ireland believed that fairies or the gentle folk were not earthly, having originated on other planets. Fairies often travel about the skies in cloudlike aerial boats called "fairy boats" or "spectre ships" (Rojcewicz 1991, p. 481).

En hoe weet je dat hij een slechte adem heeft?' Hal keek haar mismoedig aan. 'Hij is een zij, en zij is de halfgod van dans en beweging,' legde hij uit. Lydia trok een wenkbrauw op. 'Ja, van haar kun jij wel wat hulp gebruiken, te oordelen naar de manier waarop jij hier rondstrompelt.

Gorlog?' vroeg Maddie. 'Wie is Gorlog?' 'Een Skandische halfgod, die ons in allerlei situaties van pas komt,' zei Will.

Of course it is! Just as Alseiass, the all-loving Golden God of the Outsiders, is a myth.

Worship took place at temples, but temples were not designed primarily to provide a place for worship.[1] They were designed to be residences for deities and, as such, places for the performance of cultic rituals. The implications of this distinction are far-reaching and affect our understanding of deity and the role of the temple in the cosmos. Temples

Let the mad poets say whate'er they pleaseOf the sweets of Fairies, Peris, Goddesses,Haunters of cavern, lake, and waterfall,As a real woman, lineal indeedFrom Pyrrha's pebbles or old Adam's seed.

No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twistWolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine.

Asleep in lap of legends old.

Both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana survive in several versions, the earliest of which are at least five hundred years later than the Vedas. Yet their core narratives seem to relate to events from a period prior to all but the Rig Veda.

Maybe your self-mythology is no different than any other mythology. It's a story that changes in the telling, evolving over time. Whatever resonates will stay, and what doesn't will fall away. To pick away at the literal truth is to miss the point of it, miss the joy of it. So go ahead and build your myth. Try to tell a good story about yourself that captures something true, whether or not the facts agree.

The death of Baldr is one of the most important moments in the mythology.

Although Adalbert Kuhn was an important early adherent of nature mythology, the person most closely associated with it today is Max Müller, a German Indo-Europeanist resident in England who was widely read and very influential for the entire second half of the nineteenth century.

The indiscriminate aligning of narrative elements to natural phenomena led to the eventual discrediting of comparative mythology, not least when Andrew Lang, a critic of Max Müller, demonstrated that Müller himself was a solar myth.