789 Quotes About Mythology

In myth, even the greatest heroes must meet their tragic end, although, unlike the rest of us, they have at least lived.

Ultimately, whether myth is religion or folk tale is, and always has been, a question of faith. When Europeans encountered the narratives of the peoples they colonized, they dismissed them as ‘myths’—whence the modern, pejorative sense of ‘myth’ as ‘fiction’ or ‘falsehood’—but their own Garden of Eden, Holy Trinity, and Easter Resurrection they regarded instead as theology.

I can’t believe,” he went on, “that you would besmirch my good name by implying that I’m an oath-breaker-”“I would have to know your name in order to besmirch it, would I not?”“You’re besmirching the idea of my good name.”“The idea of your name itself, or the idea that it’s a good name?”He blinked at her and mouthed the word Oh.

Потоп всегда может прийти, стремительно и без предупреждения, ибо земля не способна приготовиться к нему. А значит, бояться его не стоит.

Hercules was punished for having succeeded in all his undertakings. Similarly Troy, too happy, had to perish. Pondering this vision shared by the tragic poets, we cannot help thinking that the so-called free world, upon which every fortune has been lavished, will inevitably suffer Ilion's fate, for the jealousy of the gods survives their disappearance.

حياتُنا تخلو مِن الأساطير، الأشباحُ ماتوا، قتلتْهم الفيزياءُ، وذوّبتْهم الكيمياءُ، وأرعبتْهم العقولُ

Chitrakoot ke ghat par bhai santan ki bheedTulsidas chandan ghise, tilak det Raghuveer.

A potent idea, given a name and a face across five millennia, this deity is the incarnation of fear as well as love, of pain as well as pleasure, of the agony and ecstasy of desire

The only way Addie knows how to keep going is to keep going forward. They are Orpheus, she is Eurydice, and every time they turn back, she is ruined.