Sentences with phrase «of ancient myths»

A group exhibition exploring the influence of ancient myths and archetypes on modern artists at their moments of transformation from figuration to abstraction.

She works with themes of ancient myths and interpretative dance, channeling concepts of worship, leadership, identity and history.

A war that we thought was merely a part of our ancient myths and legends, but unknown to us, is still being waged everyday in our skies.

There are many renditions of the ancient myths out there, but to me, Graves» still rules supreme.

In February 2017, Norton will publish Gaiman's new collection of stories, Norse Mythology, which is his own retelling of the ancient myths and poems from Scandinavia.

Chad Is it more fair to say that the Bible is about as true as any of the ancient myths, as far as we can prove?

The gospels are in the literary form of ancient myths.

Many of the ancient myths, like our dreams, are marked by the complexity of the plot and sub-plots, the lack of consistency in the characters and their actions, and the introduction, without warning, of further players in the cosmic drama.

The Bible / Koran, a collection of ancient myths and stories borrowed from many different cultures over hundreds of centuries or longer.

While most in our «enlightened» Western society would assume we are beyond the actual worship of the gods out of ancient myths, the truth isn't so clear - cut.

Atheists are speaking up and becoming more vocal because we are sick and tired of hearing and having our lives / schools / political systems full of ancient myths and fairy - tales.

The FACT that the gospels were written according to the format of ancient myths, (see Dr. Carrier's scolarly video: / / www.youtube.com/watch?v=MclBbZUFSag) in which this FACT isa demonstrated.

The reality is that as our knowledge has grown it has become ever more evident that the bible is a collection of ancient myths and legends.

It is at this point that the very poetic and symbolic nature of the term «resurrection» begins to make itself felt even in the context of the ancient myth.

It is clearly an adaptation of the ancient myth of Anti-Christ or Beliar, who now appears in the guise of the» Man of Sin.»

But there is nothing in the universe that points to any of the gods of ancient myth as anything other than the desire for self - acknowledgement within a narrative structure.

All of Christianity is built on a misinterpretation of an ancient myth.

They have the structure of ancient myth.

So impersonating a scientist for Rampage seems almost a demotion in stature, until it becomes clear that like some hero of an ancient myth, he'll have to confront these demons alone in single combat.

Most of the humour stems from the wide - eyed dismay we read on Diana's face, but also from her fundamental innocence and conviction in the truth of ancient myth.

The artists in the exhibition inflect Modernist forms with contemporary perspectives on intimate subjects including: the poetics of domestic architecture, the pertinence of ancient myth, and the solipsism of art history.

Deeply embedded in the complexities of ancient myth, the Three Graces were written of by such colossal figures as Homer and Pausanius, and were associated with both the Elusian Mysteries and the cult of the Oracle of Delphi.

He regarded this as connecting the modern child to the structures of ancient myth: «every childhood binds the accomplishments of technology to the old world of symbol».

Not exact matches

«That was an insane number driven by crazy credit and should be viewed the same as gods of ancient Greece and other fables or myths.»

In short, the major stories of the Bible may simply be the monotheistic versions of popular ancient myths.

Get rid of all human discriminating religions, or let them evolve; but since their evolution is not possible, let them die like the other ancient myths.

The best you can come up with is a fleeting reference to the House of David, which leaves events that supposedly happened before that in the same realm as other ancient myths.

Two thousand years later, the vast majority of the world's population has disregarded the belief that dragons roam the sea, Zeus, Poseidon, and most other ancient gods (as these people thousands of years ago believed), yet the world inexplicably still clings to the thousands - year - old myths of God and Jesus.

Tryggve N. D. Mettinger in The Riddle of the Resurrection: «Dying and Rising Gods» in the Ancient Near East wrote: «There is, as far as I am aware, no prima facie evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the myths and rites of the dying and rising gods of the surrounding world.»

Yooz, the way you just used the word «myth» shows you can't be a very good scholar of ancient literature or religion, if you are one at all.

The Bible (OT) is a book which includes * some * history of primitive Hebrew culture, and * some * good advice for practical, beneficial human behavior, but mostly it is a compilation of ancient Middle Eastern historical fiction, myth, legend, superst.ition and fantasy.

Such imagery was prevalent in ancient creation myths, and typically, when the gods of these myths set out to bring order to the chaotic waters, they did so through war, battle, and violence (Greg Boyd, God at War, 159 - 164).

Although we must not ignore the imagery of the wind and the water in this text, nor must we think that the flood account is nothing more than a ancient myth designed to illustrate a spiritual truth.

There is no evidence that the bible is anything more than a collection of ancient, middle - eastern myths.

My rejection of religion is a thorough one, borne of my own disinterest in organized belief systems, my distrust of dogmatic thinking and those who prefer it, and my own unwillingness to put faith in ancient tribal myths.

The first chapter gives a brief overview of the history of psychiatry, beginning in ancient Greece, describing how mental illness has been regarded and treated through the ages; along the way, it debunks the myth that the early Church saw all mental illness as diabolic.

To insist that Blake was successful as an artist and poet only to the extent that he resurrected an ancient form of myth is to deny the Christian ground of his vision and to reject the great bulk of his mature work.

Specifically the correct interpretation of a translation of a translation of a translation of an ancient book of largely borrowed myths written for a specific geographic culture.

What helped the spread of Christianity are the facts that, 1) ancient people believed myths to be true and 2) violence & brutality come in handy when enforcing law... or so they thought.

In this age of science and discovery, it's tragic that some people still cling to ancient myths.

Not ancient myths written by ancient men that have been butchered throughout history to benefit who ever «knows» the «real» word of god.

Your old stories are the fantasy tales of ancient Middle Eastern men - creative guys, with perhaps a smidgeon of facts about their tribe's history and a few beneficial morality tales, but mainly myth, fantasy and supersit.ion.

Believers are trying to crowbar an ancient, man - made myth, borne of a fear of death, into an advanced, scientific field of research.

The Bible is a book of ancient Jewish myths and legends.

You are pretending that your childish beliefs in the myths of ancient goat - herders is infallible truth.

The Bible is a book which includes * some * history of primitive Hebrew culture, and * some * good advice for practical, beneficial human behavior, but a great deal of it is a compilation of ancient Middle Eastern historical fiction, myth, legend, superst.ition and fantasy.

People are finally understanding that religion is all man made, just like the Mormon myths of golden tablets and ancient Mormons in South America.

You and your ancient belief system which is just a mix of other mid eastern beliefs and myths, specifically those in the Mediterranean region.

- Stories vs. HistoryBesides all of this, the myths of the ancient world were never based on solid historical fact.

The man / men who got their stories turned into the Jesus myth were probably ancient versions of such modern people as David Koresh, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, L. Ron Hubbard, Joseph Smith, etc..