Myths there must be, since visions of the future must be clothed in imagery. But there are myths which displace truth and there are myths which give wings to truth.
Myth Quotes
One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
Gnome, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. Bjorsen, who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight. Ludwig […]
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man’s evolution.
One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world.
Today, tell-all books are common if not always acceptable, but shattering myths is not always easy, especially when they are as indelible as the alleged circumstances surrounding Bessie’s (Smith)death. That particular one took on a life of its own, often overshadowing all other apsects of Bessie’s life. Shortly after the original edition of “Bessie” appeared, […]
In every age the ‘good old days’ are a myth. No one ever thinks they were good at the time. For every age consists of crises that seem intolerable to those who live through them.
I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
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.
