Sentences with phrase «in ancient mythology»

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

While it's name is rooted in ancient mythology, the Aston Martin Valkyrie is a pure expression of modern technology.

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

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

Add to this the insight of the psychological disciplines, which have confirmed many of the truths expressed in ancient mythology, the truths of rivalry and overt hostility that mark the parent - child relationship, particularly when the child reaches maturity.

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.

Girard shows how this theme is found everywhere in ancient mythology and religious writings, but how only the Hebrew Scriptures begin to reveal that the third party, upon whom blame was laid for the original violence, was really an innocent scapegoat.

You don't understand science and then get all antsy because those who understand it far better don't believe in ancient mythology.

Commonly in ancient mythologies, the gods of the nether world were not the gods of the earth's surface.

Not exact matches

If he wants to include ancient mythology and ignorant superst!tion in his writing, that's fine, it goes along with the genre — fiction.

Why a non-terrestrial culture would name their planet after a figure in ancient Roman mythology is open to question (Romulus and Remus were reared by a she - wolf and went on to found the city of Rome, which also takes its name from Romulus).

This idea of a periodically expanding and contracting universe, which involves a scale of time and space of vast proportions, has arisen not only in modern cosmology, but also in ancient Indian mythology.

no records) Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.

Yes, many aspects of the Calvinist god more closely resembles some of the monstrous gods of ancient Greek and Roman mythology than the God revealed in Jesus Christ.

By this «in - mythologizing,» there is the possibility of penetration into the reality which the ancient cosmology and the mythology used by the biblical writers was attempting to state in language appropriate to their time.

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).»

In 1936 Lord Raglan sat down and started comparing ancient mythologies.

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.

After all, the dominant religions in the United States keep their followers by encouraging them to remain ignorant of other religions out of fear they will find out that there's basically nothing new under the sun, and that the ideas of Christianity date all the way back to ancient Egyptian religion ant the mythology surrounding Horus and Set.

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.

When will human beings become intelligent enough to throw off the shackles of ancient mythology and stop living in fantasy worlds?

They do often worship out in nature, and tend to follow the ancient beliefs and practices of Nordic mythology.

It is true that the King James bible is referenced in a good deal of pre 20th century literature, but so was ancient Roman / Greek mythology.

The word kosmos in ancient Greek actually means «order» and not «universe,» and in their mythology the Greeks claimed that the cosmos emerged out of Chaos, which is simply a way of terminating the wonderment in a non «explanation, indeed in a nonsensical non «explanation.

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.

For instance, an essay on Ancient Near Eastern Mythology,» by Robert Wexler, president of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, states that on the basis of modern scholarship, it seems unlikely that the story of Genesis originated in Palestine.

ALL religions are nothing but ancient mythology, written thousands of years ago by primitive people in order to try and explain existence, comfort people in the face of their mortality and keep people in line.

An ancient rabbinic method of exegesis called midrash, which sought out and inevitably found the solution to problems perceived in the biblical text, resulted in the creation of an abundant mythology that eventually took on a life of its own.

There are only gullible people like yourself, who have been suckered into the ancient, illogical, stagnant mythology of magical thinking and others, like me, who choose to pursue the scientific method and spend the rest of my life improving my own knowledge with new discoveries and participating in the great modern renaissance of mankind!

Quantum Mechanics is WAY weirder and more complex than, say, evolution (though I like how you threw the big bang in there — separate theories, dude), but you won't really hear any religious nuts complaining about the exact same process that gives us QM because it doesn't conflict with their ancient mythology.

What I am saying is that all we have are ancient writings for a religion that has its roots in even more unfounded mythology.

As such, it is interesting as one in the growing collections of ancient mythologies, but it is now irrelevant, if not also aesthetically and theologically unpalatable.

In most of the mythology of ancient Greece, the gods could not revive the dead.

The character of ancient thought entailed that the basic dualism of man's existence should express itself in mythology, and this, in turn, in cult.

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.

7 itself takes up an existing image from ancient Canaanite mythology, the nearest parallels to which, in texts now available to us, are from Ugarit and Tyre.

Once Christianity became permanently divorced from its Semitic origins in Judaism, and was proclaiming its Gospel in a pagan context where the ancient mythology was still very much of a reality, it was natural that the idea of the unseen divine world above should steadily become more dominant in Christian thought.

Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.

The ancient Greeks are thought to be the first to have cultivated the plant and even gave the herb its own legend in classic mythology.

This Call has beckoned and inspired heroines and heroes of ancient and modern mythology to leave their day to day lives in search of «Something Else Our Hearts Believe Is Possible.»

Following a degree in Classics and Archaeology, Carolyn lectured in Ancient History and Mythology in the Department of...

But the new monikers also draw inspiration from ancient mythologies and historical star names from indigenous cultures around the world, including in China, Australia and southern Africa.

These «chimeras,» named for a beast in ancient Greek mythology, are possible due to advances in stem - cell science and gene - editing technology.

And in Australia — where people and oversized animals may have coexisted thousands of years ago — some scholars have speculated that references to enormous animal - like creatures in Australia's Aboriginal «Dreamtime» mythology may have drawn from ancient encounters with real megafauna or their remains, known today from Australia's fossil record.

Leda was a princess in Ancient Greek mythology.

Pilgrims come from every corner of India and the globe to bathe in the rivers, where Hindu mythology says an ancient scuffle between gods and demons led to the spilling of amrit, the nectar of immortality.

Its unseemly reputation dates back at least to ancient Greek mythology, in which the handsome hunter Narcissus (who undoubtedly would be gloating over his present - day fame) discovered his own reflection in a pool of water and fell in love with it.

«It covers modern literature and ancient mythology and everything in between, and history.

In this series the classic stories about mummies were flavored with Mexican coloring combined with the mythology of the ancient Aztecs.