My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough...

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

inner consistencyof reality.” There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none whichso many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it...

When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of...

Odysseus inclines his head. “True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.” He spread his broad...

Readiness for action is the root of all kingly duties. Listen to the verse sung by Vrihaspati: By exertion the amrita was obtained, by exertion the asuras were slain and by exertion Indra obtained sovereignity...

Life will always be sorrowful. We can’t change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker...

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

I quickly dropped my hands and changed the subject. “So those two who visited me the other night. Who were they?” I asked.He smiled, knowingly. “Ares and Aphrodite.”Of course, I thought. In fact, I think...

He thought of the deep crevasses and windy caves of Underlay, and the stories of the creatures that dwelt there. Of course, he didn’t believe in them. He’d told them, because the handing on of...

Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the...

But you mark my words: I will be there when everything you love is destroyed. Everything you didn’t even believe you would have.

I looked at Vicki. My beautiful Vicki. My dream. My love. My life.

I never counted on you, lass. You are strong, honorable, clever, shrewd, beautiful, and resilient. You doona ever quit, and you doona ever give up. So why give up on me?

The more we prepare for war, the more we make it a reality. Yet, it would seem, to prepare for war may also be the best and possibly the only way to avoid it.’ –...

His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi’s kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the rich sweetness of melted chocolate. I breathed in his scent...

Lesson Number One in controlling a man: find his weakness. Every man had one.

How ’bout that?

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent

..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl…

The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job.

It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.

I’ve always like Medieval literature. As a young girl I read mythologies and Norse legends, that sort of thing. I loved Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While I was studying at Middle Tennessee State...

She knew him as much as the knowing of her own heart’s secret: she was destined for the forest.

Eros mumbled something.”I’m sorry?” said Aphrodite.”Whatwouldjesusdo.””What would Jesus do?” said Aphrodite. “Let me tell you something. Jesus was a very good boy. He would do exactly what his mother told him to.””But-“”Jesus was supposed to...

Paris and HelenHe called her: golden dawnShe called him: the wind whistlesHe called her: heart of the skyShe called him: message bringerHe called her: mother of pearl barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid,...

The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.

Cecie keeps telling him she’d like to take him home some night, husband or no. The Minotaur waits hopefully. Husband or no.

Mythology didn’t cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology.

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

Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.

Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?

Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian’s fight against paganism. At Bwlch Rhiwfelen (Denbigh) St Collen fought and killed a cannibal giantess, afterwards washing away...

Her physical beauty had initially caught my attention, but it was her spirit that imprisoned my heart and soul forever. – Jonathan

The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

I have done it,” she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S,...

Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.

We came upon a massacre at the Shrine of Prometheus. The humans were ripped to shreds. There was no one ieft alive to say what happened, said Eros.

As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples...

Something has got to hold it together. I’m saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete emancipation of the modern geologist from the controlling and perverting influence of theology,...

It’s rather good to pretend to be normal with someone.

Pegasus’s dad was poseidon, the god of the sea, and his mom was Medusa, and evil Gorgon who had fangs and lizard skin and living snakes for hair. And you thought your family was weird.