789 Quotes About Mythology

The stranger arched a black eyebrow at her. “Dinnae say that a kelpie, who has likely drowned a thousand men, is disgusted by a wee bit o’ blood and bone.”"Aye. Drowning is nice and clean!

Believe reality is what you were taught was myth.

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique.

In Sumer, they wrote hymns about liquor and beer. Compared it to the onrush of theTigris and Euphrates. Sang odes to the goddess Ninkasi. No matter how long ago or howrecent, people drink to forget.

To select only monuments supresses at one stroke the reality of the land and that of its people, it accounts for nothing of the present, that is, nothing historical, and as a consequence, the monuments themselves become undecipherable, therefore senseless. What is to be seen is thus constantly in the process of vanishing, and the Guide becomes, through an operation common to all mystifications, the very opposite of what it advertises, an agent of blindness.

She is a siren of death, disturbingly beautiful and heartbreakingly deadly.

I took ‘em because nobody else had found ‘em yet. I brought ‘em here ta be protected from mortals that didn’t know the kinda power they once had, that might try ta unlock it again.

She turned back to the spot where Kamala had been, and where the bow she'd held still was. Andrea walked over to it and picked it up. She ran her hands over it gently, feeling the intricate designs carved into it, the elegance of the metal guard. Andrea held it out before her and pulled the string back. It came easily, though with all the tensions of a thousand taut muscles. She relaxed the string and looked at the bow with a sad familiarity, as she uttered one word.“Sister.