#mythology

One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follow. They’re part of the same journey — our story. ↗

— Lori R. Lopez

#creatures #desert #epic-adventure #fantasy #footprints

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on. ↗

— Anne Rice

#any #fascinated #get #hands #i

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#binding #essential #force #had #mythology

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#antique #dogma #explanation #lore #mythology

This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#assigned #being #faiths #follows #mythology

I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#fascinated #i #i always #lot #mystique

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step. ↗

— Stephen Sommers

#go #i #i love #like #love

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 ↗

— Matt Fraction

#gods #mythology #age

Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both senseless and impossible. It would be senseless, because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such. It is simply the cosmology of a pre-scientific age. ↗

— Rudolf Karl Bultmann

#cosmology #mythology #age

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes? ↗

— Umberto Eco

#homer #iliad #justification #mythology #passage-of-time