Quotes About Mythology

The statue of the mighty Greek god stared down at Jack.

Zeus Zeus was god of the skies and ruler of all the Greek gods and goddesses. Zeus and his family were called Olympians because they lived on top of a mountain called Mount Olympus. The major Greek gods and goddesses were later adopted by the Romans. Zeus was called Jupiter by the Romans.

The most popular god was Thor, Odin's son. Thor had great strength and controlled thunder, lightning, and giant storms. People pictured him as having a flaming red beard and a huge hammer.

Odysseus looked up. Could this truly be Hermes, the messenger god of Mount Olympus, son of Zeus, and protector of heroes and travelers?

To honor Thor, Vikings often wore necklaces with little hammers on them. The word Thursday comes from Thor's name. And guess what? It means "thunder's day"!

Loki was a shape changer and a trickster. He could turn into animals like fish, horses, and falcons. At times, Loki helped the gods, but his tricks also made them angry.

Frigg was the goddess of married women and love. She was also Odin's wife and queen of Asgard. Frigg and Odin had a son named Baldr. He was a beautiful god of light and purity.

Nay, father. Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party. - Thor, God of Thunder

Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?" Keith asked... "you all think you're Irish. What's the appeal? Do you like the accent more? Is it all the magical rocks? Oh, look, a lep­rechaun...

Theory and mythology, natural and supernatural, science and magic are dichotomies shaped by later human reasoning. In fact, all of them are rooted in the search for the underlying forces behind the phenomena and the quest to enlist them on one's side.

Science works, of course, but from an aesthetic point of view, was it really a great improvement over mythology? Why do we insist that theories work, when they might just as well sit around and look pretty? I couldn't help observing that for every advance in science...some perfectly competent goddess or demiurge is put out of work, a hypothesized spirit dies, or a living thing surrenders its autonomy.

With his long hair, his hints of violence, and his promise of ecstasy, Dionysus was the first rock star.

Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comic. Not to be confused with real life.

Saturn Devouring His Son

Ginseng hunters refer to the plant as chang-diang shen, "the root of lightning," because it is believed that it appears only on the spot where a small mountain spring has been dried up by a lightning bolt. After a life of three hundred years the green juice turns white and the plant acquires a soul. It is then able to take on human form, but it never becomes truly human because ginseng does not know the meaning of selfishness.

I remember sitting in this cabin in Alaska one evening reading over the notes of all these encounters, and recalling Joseph Campbell, who wrote in the conclusion to 'Primitive Mythology' that men do not discover their gods, they create them. So do they also, I thought, looking at the notes before me, create their animals.

Jews also believed that divinities could become human and humans could become divine.

One of the greatest Roman poets was Ovid, an older contemporary of Jesus (his dates: 43 BCE–17 CE). His most famous work is his fifteen-volume Metamorphoses, which celebrates changes or transformations described in ancient mythology. Sometimes these changes involve gods who take on human form in order to interact, for a time, with mortals.

the rivers Pyriphlegethon and Cocytus flow into the Acheron.

dread three-headed hound of hell, Cerberus.

most ancient people did not see the divine and earthly realms this way.

in the Roman world it was widely thought that gods could take on human guise, such that some of the people one might meet on occasion may well indeed be divine

Achilles was the greatest mortal ever to have lived and is now the greatest among those who have died:

Jupiter Best and Greatest