mythology

Look out your window on a morning in spring, ten or twenty years hence, and perhaps you'll see me coming.

We all wrap ourselves in the mythology we want other people to see us in.

I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.Had Ragnarok happened yet? Was it still to happen? I did not know then. I am not certain now.

He is half of my soul,as the poets say.

Fear is a constant, and faith is a choice. Fear comes from karma, from faith arises dharma.

The mythology of a people is far more than a collection of pretty of terrifying fables to be retold in carefully bowdlerized form to our schoolchildren. It is the comment of the men of one particular age or civilization on the mysteries of human existence and the human mind, their model for social behaviour, and their attempt to define in stories of gods and demons their perception of the inner realities. We can learn much from the mythologies of earlier peoples if we have the humility to respect ways of thought widely differing from our own. In certain respects we may be far cleverer than they, but not necessarily wiser. We cannot return to the mythological thinking of an earlier age; it is beyond our reach, like the vanished world of childhood. Even if we feel a nostalgic longing for the past, like that of Jon Keats for Ancient Greece of William Morris for medieval England, there is now no way of entry. The Nazis tries to revive the myths of ancient Germany in their ideology, but such an attempt could only lead to sterility and moral suicide. We cannot deny the demands of our own age, but this need not prevent us turning to the faith of another age with sympathetic understanding, and recapturing imaginatively some of its vanished power. It will even help us view more clearly the assumptions and beliefs of our own time.

We hold this myth to be potentialNot self-evident but equationalAnother DimensionOf another kind of Living Life

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Our susceptibility to myth is a world danger. Because the application of science to human behaviour has come so late the myth is regarded as less dangerous than the bacillus. It is doubtful whether such a belief is justified.

Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology.

Have I cheated death again? Hades must be allergic to me.

So Beckendorf was pretty popular?" Leo asked. "I mean-before he blew up?

Why are you singing?_ Daniel asked. __ou__e just lying in the dirt and singing. That__ weird. I thought you were supposed to be some kind of scary monster.

Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?" "I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.

There is a small wooden viewing tower, and pamphlets from the State of Ohio, but they focus on facts__or instance, the Serpent Mound is as long as four football fields__ot on meaning. In The Sacred Hoop, Paula Gunn Allen, a Native poet, mythologist, and scholar, explains that Serpent Woman was one of the names of the quintessential original spirit __hat pervades everything, that is capable of powerful song and radiant movement, and that moves in and out of the mind_she is both Mother and Father to all people and all creatures. She is the only creator of thought, and thought precedes creation._ In Western mythology, she might be compared to Medusa, the serpent-haired Greek goddess whose name means Knowing Woman or Protectress. She once was all-powerful__ntil patriarchy came along in the form of a mythic young man who chopped off her head. He was told to do this by Athena, who sprang full-blown from the mind of her father, Zeus__ goddess thought up by patriarchy and therefore motherless. There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.

In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings of his against six old Jewish teachings. The latter are introduced by such words as 'You have heard that it was said by them of old time' and the former by 'But I say unto you.'Since both the teachings of old time and Jesus' new teachings are predicated on the same profoundly mistaken views of human nature and of the world in general, it is unimportant for us here today to compare and contrast these teachings or to determine which is better or worse in some way or other. The point is that whether better or worse, in this way or that, both are lodged in an egregiously mistaken mythology -- but in a mythology of enormous importance for us, because it is one of the wellsprings of Western culture.

I sort of fell.""Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship