Ortiz sites the Brothers Grimm and
other mythological stories as influences when creating narratives for her haunting work.
Not exact matches
How do you tell a
story that fundamentally distinguishes this person — this very particular and personal God — from the
mythological deities who are also particular persons, fighting for their own favorites to prevail over all
others?
There will come a day when the
mythological stories are supplanted by some
other genre that possibly some young filmmaker is just thinking about discovering for all of us.»
And again, through the work of
other scholars like Bultmann and Buri, with their frank recognition of the
mythological element in the biblical
story, we have come to see that the affirmations of Scripture have their abiding significance, not in spite of, but precisely because of their being stated in language which can only be described as highly metaphorical.
Suites of saints, virtues, vices, the signs of the zodiac and the seven liberal arts were also common, as were narrative series that recounted
stories from the Bible and
other religious and
mythological subjects such as the Labors of Hercules, the Flight into Egypt, the Passion of Christ, and the Life of the Virgin.