Quotes About Mythology

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

Reg?seam peste tot faÈ›a aceea unic?: amalgamam personajele divine, sexele È™i atributele eterne, pe dura Dian? a p?durilor cu melancolicul Bachus, pe vigurosul Hermes al palestrelor cu zeul bivalent al iubirii, dormind cu capul pe un mald?r de flori. Constatam cât de mult seam?n? virilei Atena un tân?r c?zut pe gânduri.

Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves—and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.

La bestia de la cual vivían atemorizados era en realidad ellos mismos: Era el hombre, no algún demonio mitológico, quien a final iba a destruir al hombre. Y esta bestia había sido creada de su miedo.

Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.

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Reading ancient myths and fairy tales can be very helpful because these stories came spontaneously from people who had not studied psychology. The stories came straight out of their unconscious and, therefore, show us how the unconscious works unimpeded by conscious intervention. The images are clear and stark. For those of us who are interested in why we do what we do when we want to do the opposite, the stories are gold mines of information.

The notes weren't played, he went on, They were poured from a Grecian urn .

Columba, Lepus, Canis Major, Canis Minor, Procyon, Betelgeuse, Rigel, Orion, Taurus, Aldebaran, Gemini, Pollux, Castor, Auriga, Capella, the Pleiades, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Polaris, Draco, Cepheus, Vega, the Northern Cross, Cygnus, Deneb, Delphinus, Andromeda, Triangulum, Aries, Cetus, Pisces, Aquarius, Pegasus, Fomalhaut.

brilliant Achilles, tall Hektor, gray-eyed Athene.

And I think a long time ago there were big stories. Stories so big you could live your whole life in them. The Powerful Hands of the Gods and Fate. The Journey to Enlightenment. The March of Socialism. But they all died or the world grew up or grew senile or forgot them, so now we're making up our own stories. Little stories. But we've each got one.

esposa del dios.

the swallows, fleeing before the hoopoes, shall have all flocked together in one place, and shall refrain them from all amorous commerce, then will be the end of all the ills of life; yea, and Zeus, which doth thunder in the skies, shall set above what was erst below....

The gods too are fond of a joke.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each instrument could do its own work, at the word of command or by intelligent anticipation, like the statues of Daedalus or the tripods made by Hephaestus, of which Homer relates that Of their own motion they entered the conclave of Gods on Olympus, as if a shuttle should weave of itself, and a plectrum should do its own harp playing.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.

There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way… until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.

One by one she would cut through the orbits of Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion... worlds bearing the names of gods and goddesses who had vanished only yesterday, as time was counted here.

Norton suddenly recalled the myth of Oceanus, the sea that, the ancients believed, surrounded the Earth.

Kalevala, whereas

You see," Nicole added, "the mythological Eden was a beginning, the start of what we might call our modern Western culture.

Humanity had lost its ancient gods: now it was old enough to have no need for new ones.