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“Mythology, like water, has the unique ability to take the form of its container.”
“Mythology must be interpreted on its own terms.”
Source: Testament of the Hollow
“Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.”
“Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.”
Source: Artificial Gods
“Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too elusive to be discussed in a logically coherent way.”
Source: Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
“Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.”
“MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.”
“MYTHS ABOUT SUICIDE
1. Those who talk about suicide are not at risk of suicide.
2. All suicidal people are depressed or mentally ill.
3. Suicide occurs without warning.
4. Asking about suicide ‘plants’ the idea in someone’s head.
5. Suicidal people clearly want to die.
6. When someone becomes suicidal they will always remain suicidal.
7. Suicide is inherited.
8. Suicidal behaviour is motivated by attention-seeking.
9. Suicide is caused by a single factor.
10. Suicide cannot be prevented.
11. Only people of a particular social class die by suicide.
12. Improvement in emotional state means lessened suicide risk.
13. Thinking about suicide is rare.
14. People who attempt suicide by a low-lethality means are not serious about killing themselves.”
Source: When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do to Prevent It
“Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.”
“Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.”
“Myths and legends die hard in America.”
Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.”
“Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed to govern it. They both fix the limits of what is considered as possible.”
“Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.”
“Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.”
“Myths are different than fairy tales or legends. Legends are stories based in history and are more or less true. Myths, on the other hand, are stories containing a deeper truth—stories that transcend time. If you were to travel the world, you would find myths that are remarkably similar to one another—stories of heroes fighting the darkness with the light.”
Source: Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
“Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.”
Source: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
“Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.”
Source: Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives
“Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.”
“Myths are healthy for creativity,
If you can tell myths from reality.
Imagination is almost a superpower,
If you can wield it without conspiracy.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.”
“Myths are lies that tell the truth.”
Source: Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives
“Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.”
“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Myths are not mere explanations; they’re mirrors. They reflect us, yes, but they also profoundly shape us, guiding the contours of our souls. If something lives in your blood long enough, if it resonates deep within your soul, it becomes more than metaphor; it becomes truth, undeniable and real.”
Source: The Heir of Ash and Thunder
“Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.”
Source: New Larousse encyclopedia of mythology
“Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.”
“Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.”
Source: Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
“Myths are the stories we tell ourselves about how we behave, when we don’t know how it is we behave or even why.”
“Myths are what remain once the history of an event has been forgotten or lost to time. Myths are like the memory of one’s first crush; the pain and longing one felt at that time is forgotten, but the warmth and sweetness of romance lives on, probably even magnified, larger in the imagination than it was in reality.”
“Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.”
“Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.”
“Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.”
“Myths & Comics (The Sonnet)
Some modern superheroes are green in color,
Some ancient superheroes are blue in color.
Some worship hulk, ironman, captain marvel,
Some are fanatics of Zeus, Poseidon, Krishna.
Mythologies are but comics of the old days,
Just like comics are nothing but modern myths.
Fiction is okay in its place, but trouble begins,
When life is belittled and fiction is worshiped.
Inspiration can come from anywhere, real or not,
But all is useless, if it produces mindless savages.
Even I've written fiction to explore some situations,
Though based on reality, some of it is highly exaggerated.
If it brings you back to life, only then it's worth it.
Fiction is supposed to enhance reality, not enslave it.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Myths don't contradict the facts; they complement the facts.”
Source: Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
“Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.”
“Myths have a very long memory.”
Source: Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
“Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.”
“Myths, legends, and fables frequently tell us more about the human race than studying history does. G.K. Chesterton said, ‘Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.’ The whispering voices of our ancestor’s fables warn us about conspiracy, death, deception, and trickery. There exist inside some of us multiple voices clamoring that something crucial is missing from our fateful lives. Author Jenifer Salaiz said, ‘Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control their voices.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.”
“Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.”
Source: The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol
“Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.”
Source: The Concept of Mind
“Myths rarely offer facts, only metaphors for political or social forces, but myths about former female powers would not exist if men had always controlled women. If men always controlled women, their domination would need to explanation or justification, but would seem natural. Myths of once powerful females are amazingly universal.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it comes to the supernatural, there's no beating folklore.” - Breena Malloy from Bitter Frost by Kailin Gow”
Source: Frost Series Omnibus Volume 1
“Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.”
“Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False. It depends on how many children the out-of-towners brought with them who kicked the back of your seat from Phoenix to Flagstaff and got their gum caught in your hair.”
“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.”
Source: I have tried to tell the truth: 1943-1944
“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.”
Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962
“Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.”