Quotes About Mythology

Eternas ondinas, dividid el agua fina. Venus, del azul hermana, conmueve las puras aguas. Judío errante en Noruega, dime, ¿cómo nieva? Viejos exiliados tiernos, contadme el océano. YO-. Nunca esas bebidas puras, ni esas flores de florero, ni leyendas, ni figuras, saciarme pudieron. Coplista, tu ahijada es mi sed que se desboca, hidra íntima sin bocas que roe y devasta.

For the pagan there's no hell." - Arthur Rimbaud

Sky was the first god. Robert knew that there was only one God and he had a Son who was also God, but there were gods who had vanished: the gods of thunder, of fire, of the wide oceans of the earth.

It was as if a giant paw of a dragon was resting on the earth.

As far as cheating goes , you have illustrious predecessors . Theseus escaped from the labyrinth thanks to Ariadne's thread , Jason stole the golden fleece with Medea's help .... The Kaurabas used subterfuge to win at dice in the Mahabharata , and the Achaeans checkmated the Trojans by moving a wooden horse . Your conscience is clear .

Si nuestra ignorancia de la naturaleza creó a los dioses, el conocimiento de la naturaleza está hecho para destruirlos.

Avanzamos mezclados entre los griegos, amparados por un dios que no es el nuestro.

Las leyendas sólo sobreviven vistas de lejos.

We held certain truths to be self-evident, but those truths were that elves hate orcs and wizards can't wear metal armor.

Charlie's a prince of the Seminole Nation. His ancestors go back to the gods. He sells sea shells by the sea shore.

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.

I was way into 'Voltron,' Ray Harryhausen: anything with giant monsters, I was really into. Even dinosaurs - for a while, I wanted to be a paleontologist. So it's almost like primal, ancestral mythology to me, this fascination with monsters.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.

I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.

The 'Mahabharata' is the best story ever. It makes you believe that impossible things can be made possible. There is magical realism.

I was always interested in Ravana, for he had his own ways. He had a great respect and was God-fearing.

The great thing about America is that people take its history and mythologise it.

Greece is the most magical place on Earth.

I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Thor. I had a hammer.