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Christian mythologyChristian mythology is made up partly from the ancient mythology and partly from the Jewish traditions. ... The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of ...
Roger Zelazny
I'm very taken by mythology. The material I work with is what is classified as science ... Before I discovered science fiction I was reading mythology. ...
Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was a classicist and educator who was a writer on mythology. Her most famous books are The Greek ...
Joseph Campbell
[edit] Mythology and the Individual (1997) The image of the cosmos must change with the development of the mind and knowledge; otherwise, the ...
Sam Harris
Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American neuroscientist and best-selling author. ... for lack of adherents, were cast upon the scrap heap of mythology millennia ago. ...
Henry David Thoreau
To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. ... To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. ...
Northrop Frye
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and ... Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and ...
Ishmael
According to Taker mythology, man is by definition a biological exception. ... Ishmael: in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The ...
Terry Eagleton
is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility. [edit] Against The Grain (1986) ...
Macedonia (region)
Afterwards they added races for chariots and pairs of foals, and for ... It is said that the victors proclaimed were: for the chariot and pair, Belistiche, a ...
L. Neil Smith
Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who ...
Leo Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy [Ле́в Никола́евич Толсто́й] (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910) was a Russian ... similar to the pagan mythology, and having introduced the worship ...
Wolves
Wolves feature in folklore and mythology of cultures ancient to modern across the northern hemisphere; from the Norse legend of the giant Fenrir ...
Claude Lévi-Strauss
This has been used by science since it existed and can be extended to a few other studies — linguistics and mythology — but certainly not to everything. ...
Barack Obama
Born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan father and a mother from Kansas, the former ... that American mythology has always had difficulty fully absorbing but ...
James Frazer
The world cannot live at the level of its great men. Sir James George ... in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. ...
Hyman G. Rickover
It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who ... In greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he ...
Thanos
... of Thanatos, the personification of death and mortality in Greek mythology. Thanos first appears in Iron Man #55 (vol. 1, Feb. 1973) and was created by Jim Starlin. ...
Soil
This page has been listed as needing cleanup since 2009-12-21. ... "Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with ...
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds (2005-) is an American CBS television show about an elite squad of FBI ... from Greek mythology... to heal. Gideon... a hero from the Old Testament who led the ...
J. B. S. Haldane
There does not seem to be any particular reason why a religion should not arise with an ethic as fluid as Hindu mythology, but it has not yet arisen. ...
Walking (Thoreau)
How much more fertile a Nature, at least, has Grecian mythology its root in than English literature! Mythology is the crop which the Old World ...
Theodore Zeldin
The Muses were women in mythology. They did not teach or require to be worshipped, but they were a source of inspiration. They taught you how ...
God
This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad ... All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the ...
Artemis
Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: (nominative) ...
P. L. Travers
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make ... all orders of being — humanity, mythology (Greek, Norse, Christian), the animal world (both talking and ...
Robertson Davies
Literature in a Country Without a Mythology (1988) What used to be called a Canadian novel was a kind of prairie frontier story, but it was phony. ...
Sun Ra
Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies ...
Marie-Louise von Franz
If we look at the folklore and mythology of the different crafts in more primitive ... the point of view of mythology, the unknown wanderer here is clearly ...
Edward Gibbon
Gibbon's magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ... The thin texture of the Pagan mythology was interwoven with various but not ...
Wynton Marsalis
He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era, as well as a well known African American ... form—an ancient art form—that takes in the mythology of our people. ...
Hannes Alfven
He trained as, and considered himself to be, an electrical power engineer, ... without having any explicit creation mythology and are in no way contradicted ...
Jorge Luis Borges
Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored by time, ... Variant translation: Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and ...
Miguel de Unamuno
1.1.10 X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis ... [edit] X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis ...
Horses
There is evidence to suggest that horses have been domesticated since 4000 BC. The horse is prominent in religion, mythology, and art; it has ...
Marilyn Manson
I was writing a lot of lyrics five or six years ago and the name Marilyn Manson, I ... It's very much like the mythology of the bible, the end of the world, and the antichrist ...
Man and Superman
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized ... philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian ...
Thomas Mann
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ... the history of art, religion and prehistory; mythology, folklore, pedagogy, and what not. ...
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Paul Feyerabend (January 13, 1924 – February 11, 1994) was a philosopher of science, ... outside science, from religion, from mythology , from the ideas of incompetents, or the ...
Daniel Suarez
Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? ... You can find it in Hindu legend, Sumerian mythology. Shit, you find it in modern folklore, like Rip van ...
Vedic science
As in Hindu mythology, it is a continual dance of creation and destruction involving the whole cosmos; the basis of all existence and of all natural phenomenon. ...
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-09-10 – 2002-05-20) was an American geologist, paleontologist, ... 1.4 The Flamingo's Smile (1985) 1.5 Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (1987) ...
Novalis
Baron Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801) was an author, philosopher and poet ... as characters, human or divine, as they are in Hindu mythology...
Simone Weil
Simone Weil (3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French social and religious philosopher. ... minds reserved for superstition, such as the Greeks had in their mythology; and ...
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The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece.
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mythology (countable and uncountable; plural mythologies)- (countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
- (countable and uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
- 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ISBN 978-1-57181-187-5, page x:
- This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.
- 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ISBN 978-1-57181-187-5, page x:
- (countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
- 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ISBN 978-1-57958-060-5, page 198:
- This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.
- 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ISBN 978-1-57958-060-5, page 198:
- (uncountable) The systematic collection and study of myths.
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