Sentences with phrase «ancient mythology as»

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy.

It needs to be «Smack a christian day» b / c they believe in ancient mythology as fact!

It scares me how many people today don't have a good grip on reality and blindly accept ancient mythology as fact.

Why anyone would accept ancient mythology as fact is beyond me.

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@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

David L. Miller, recently reviewing my book The Chickadees in The Christian Century (May 22), has suggested that, as in ancient Greece, «there are two paths in our time, alternative mythologies for a period of crisis: up and out (the rational, heroic, masculine way), and down and in (the mad, mystical, feminine way).»

They're all dimwits that blindly accept ancient mythology and primitive superst!tions as reality.

A casual reading of such scintillating novels as Ragged Dick and Mark, the Match Boy reveals how Alger created a virtual American mythology of success, the praise of which surely rivaled the hymns sung for Athena in ancient Athens.

The LORD was in the early stages described as if He were the storm - god, or even the war - god, but these are but the remnants of ancient mythology.

Affirming the goodness of human beings as found in traditional Chinese mythology, his theology states that Christians must applaud the quest for the infinite wherever they find it, even in such expressions as the Way of China's ancient Taoism.

Supersti - tion will inevitably lose its place in society and be looked back on just as today we look back at ancient Egyptian, Roman, and Greek mythologies, except centuries and millennia from now it will be referred to as ancient Christian, Jewish, and Muslim mythologies.

They extend way beyond the Abrahamic world, and are a feature of Buddhism, Hinduism, as well as other ancient mythologies.

The sum of all of these generations of reimagining the Bible is a Jewish mythology as rich as that of other great ancient cultures.»

Religious people blindly accept ancient mythology and ignorant superst!tious nonsense as reality while rejecting modern science.

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As we noted earlier, the story of the Garden of Eden almost certainly had a prototype in ancient mythology, where its original theme seems likely to have been man's search for immortality.

Rather than view Paul's words as «ancient mythology,» the Christian can use Paul's cosmic language to discuss the considerable «forces» that impinge upon and despoil human community.

Comparisons of vocabularies and root words in the most ancient as well as modern forms of the related languages, as well as comparisons of their historically attested mythologies and lore, revealed remarkable similarities.

Meanwhile, one of the craters in the system, Lake Avernus, was referred to as the entrance to Hades in ancient mythology.

However, The Great Wall (as evidenced by the teaser trailer, above) imagines a different, more fantastical explanation for the massive construction: A battle fortress created to repel not human invaders, but an attack by rampaging monsters of ancient Chinese mythology.

Add in a menacing Mads Mikkelsen as Kaecilius, a former star pupil of The Ancient One, who went rogue and was seduced by the power of the dark side, and you have a welcome web of mythology and morals, with just enough complexity to be able to spin off into sequels full of conflict.

I am not entirely familiar with Egyptian mythology or ancient religion, so that was new to me as well.

As such, the name ABZÛ references a concept from the oldest Mesopotamian mythology: it is the combination of two ancient words Ab, meaning ocean, and Zû, meaning to know.

The first version for the PlayStation 2 March 13, 2007, is the second installment of the series God of War for pc, the sixth in the order, and the war following God 2005 The game is loosely based on Greek mythology and ancient Greece with a vengeance as a central motif.

This is very true, if you look at ancient myths and stories, such as Greek mythology, there are myriad variations and permutations.

The first version for the PlayStation 2 March 13, 2007, is the second installment of the series God of War for pc, the sixth in the order, and the war following God 2005 The free pc games is loosely based on Greek mythology and ancient Greece with a vengeance as a central motif.

Three themes that emerge from her work are explored in Outcasts: finding a voice, the process of constructing multiple perspectives on female identity; hybrid alternatives to the status quo, harnessing ancient and modern mythologies to subvert the established social and cultural order; and healing and empowerment as pathways to resistance, inclusiveness and recovery from loss and trauma.

Incorporating elements of shamanic mythology as well as the ancient art of China and Japan, Dashi Namdakov invents intricate and powerful imagery, combining the spiritual traditions of the past with present day realities.

Spearheaded by Leon Golub and united by a shared interest in the figure during a period that is often seen as dominated by abstraction, the group created deeply psychological works that drew on classical mythology and ancient art.

Adeniyi - Jones draws from specific historical objects to create his own mythologies and imagined representations of ancient royalty as well as deities of the Yoruba, called orisha.

His oeuvre reflects the ancient cultures and diverse mythologies of his native Mexico as well as the influences of French Surrealism from his twenty - two years in Paris.

Furthering the artist's investigation into the symbolism of ancient mythology, the exhibition presents a new, twenty - part work alongside three sculptures that act as monuments to the power of language and family.

Titles such as TCOM KUWAIT and DURAND LINE reference aerial military surveillance and conflict areas; others — ALPHA ANDROMEDAE, TIAMAT, PANGEA ULTIMA — are borrowed from constellations, ancient mythologies, and a potential supercontinent of the distant future.

In fact, the Romans did have an ancient flood story in their mythology as Jupiter decided to «destroy the world», as do the Celts who would have seen England and Ireland cut off from each other and England separated from Europe.

As to be expected, after such a long period of intense colonisation, ancient laws and customs were represented by what Cane calls «an attenuated core of language and mythology».