Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.

Tomorrow, I need you to die.

What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.

The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion...

I ate mythology & dreamt’- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)

Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’?

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call “history.” Mythical stories, when you trace them back to their origin, often have a sacredness, a holy quality...

Kill them. Kill them all. Remind the world what it means to be Arya. Remind the world what it is to walk with the gods. – Syoddhan Kauravya

Inside Ms. Maddox’s classroom, it was so quiet you could hear the breathing bounce off the walls.

There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find...

If she could explore and heal his injuries with her fingers, it would be another type of magic, her skin making contact with his. Putting her mind to it, Love would become familiar with his...

The last declaration he’d made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

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

The signs of the old flame, I know them well.I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me downor the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,the pale, glimmering shades...

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

Take the story of the fall of the tower of Babel. Let’s say this represents not an act of God, nor a metaphor for this planet’s diverse linguistic heritage; but a catastrophic act of terrorism...

They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety when they arrived and the proud and happy mother standing before the statue...

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

For too long now divinity and destiny have legitimized what reason and compassion would not. An individual for a family, a family for the kingdom, a kingdom for an empire… And now – an empire...

The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people’s religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

The architecture of the Minotaur’s heart is ancient. Rough hewn and many chambered, his heart is a plodding laborious thing, built for churning through the millennia. But the blood it pumps—the blood it has pumped...

The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which...

There was balance, harsh and violent like the noxious air in a swamp. But balance, nonetheless. Then somewhere in the fickle mists of creation came humanity, clawing and afraid, grasping and ambitious. Enveloped in a...

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

Never invite any kind of spirit to enter either your home or your person. This is an extremely important point to remember. To do so always risks to unwittingly invite evil spirits in, instead. Good...

Oh. Now you are not so afraid, then?”Kitty opened her mouth, indignant. “I was not afraid before! I was… shocked. How many times do you see your orphanage roommate be able to turn someone into...

PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious...

I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human race. We tend to dismiss it as ‘fairy tales,’ when it isn’t. Fairy...

Fear.” He took a drink and fell silent again as she quietly scrutinized him, attempting to discern in his haggard face the thoughts behind what he had said.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.

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...

Probably not, but we can pretend.

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe...

I had to find Mr. Brentwood. And I had to save him. Zeus, Inc. had saved the world 50 years ago when we had depleted our energy resources. The very same Zeus, Inc. that now...

Humanity is its own worst enemy. What chance do any other species have?Survival is the parchment upon which the Law of Nature is inscribed.And what I’ll find was always mine.And what I’ll say, I’ve said...

In our time… a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more...

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.

You can’t doubt so much, Psyche

He turned to look at her. “We’ve some talking to do.””Didn’t we do that on the plane ride over here?””I doona remember talking. I remember kissing, touching, and many orgasms, but no talking.

No one person is the cause for or consequence of all that happens. I am just the tenth man, the threshold, the turn in the tide. I stand here on the shoulders of humanity, a...

I dropped my bag to the floor and the sound echoed throughout the house. No one shouted, “who’s home?” or “Cassie? Is that you?”. Instead the house gobbled up the sound as if it didn’t...

I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence…You believe that the story is true, because...

She watches him for hours. She wants to be the sheets that cover his toes. She wants to be the ceiling separating him from the sky: above him, the first thing he sees before and...

The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.

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,...

the dank night is sweeping down from the skyand the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.