Rachel Cusk

In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

Canadian Novelist

Isaac Hempstead Wright

Eggs is a kind of a plucky, brave 11-year-old boy who thinks he is a boxtroll. And he's kind of one of these mythological feral children who are raised in isolation of humanity and, by virtue of that, have a deeper connection to humanity because they've been raised away from the poisons of society.

English Actor

Adrienne Mayor

I've always been interested in oral traditions and mythological stories and legends from antiquity that have to do with nature, attempts to explain mysterious or puzzling, or very striking phenomena from nature. Things that people observed or heard about in nature.

American Historian

Ashish Sharma

I have grown up on literature and mythological stories. They have fascinated me since childhood, and I believe every character that I portray on screen is an extension of my personality to some degree. That is why whatever role I play seems in my comfort zone.

Indian Actor

Nick Moran

Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.

Gurmeet Choudhary

My fans immediately saw the real me and realized that I am a good actor. It helped avoid being stereotyped with mythological shows.

Damon Lindelof

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

American Writer

Robert Lepage

The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.

Canadian Playwright

Jordan Peterson

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

Canadian Psychologist

Suhasini Mulay

I have never played any mythological character in my career.

Indian Actress

Used for characters or events from traditional stories of a culture, often teaching moral lessons.

Cultural Stories

Helps to differentiate historical fact from stories that are believed to be fictional.

Not Real History

Influences various forms of art, literature, and media, reflecting the power of these stories.

Wide Influence

Refers to creatures or entities without scientific evidence of existence, often from folklore.

Not Proven

Commonly found in fantasy genres, creating a rich background for fictional universes.

Fantasy Worlds

Often signifies more than its literal meaning, representing universal themes or human experiences.

Symbolic Meaning

 if you look really hard, in the ocean. Anyway, this is a lady creature. She's coming out of the ocean, and she's spitting oil into one hand and she has clouds coming out of her other hand. Her hands are like scales, and she has the mythological reference of the Earth and cosmos in balance.

A journey through the...

 powerful story of the underground and it goes all the way back to the beginning of human history if you look at the mythological systems of cultures all over the world it's universal there's always an underworld even with cultures that don't have physical caves around them

Modern Lives, Ancient...

 adventures one of them was based on a mythical poem called atalanta and caledon it was amelia's favorite it was a poem about a warrior woman a mythological woman who saved her kingdom by arming herself and killing the boar that was menacing the kingdom she said that

Amelia Earhart Part II:...

 walking through the community up to the commercial center of zac apostle which was the most important town for the merchants in the area the nawa men dressed in white cotton trousers and shirts and the women wore these blouses embroidered with mythological figures

The Aztecs: From Empire...

 learn their religious and mythological folk tales. I, for one, was steeped in these. Chitra basically remixes and re-titles these iconic images to tease out some of the sexual and gender politics embedded in these deeply influential comics.

Ravin Agrawal: 10 young...

 up an image of a painting is a landscape with figures semi dressed drinking wine there was a nude woman in the in the lower foreground and on the hillside in the back there was a figure of the mythological god Bacchus and he said

Weaving narratives in...

 all the birds except for one were returned to the monument. "Falling" explores the mythological belief that there will be unrest until the final bird is returned. Through my work, I have realized a lot about the world around

Living sculptures that...

 So, the value of his life was the sum total of his achievements. The denominator of the gymnosophist's life was infinity. So, no matter what he did, it was always zero. And I believe it is this mythological paradigm

East vs west -- the...

 In our village, growing up, there was no stable electricity supply. We spend most of our nights around gas lanterns and told stories about Syrian mythological superbeings that protected the vulnerable.

Feras Fayyad: The...

 To witnesses on the ground, he looked like a god, and as he peered down from above, he felt like one, too. But, in mythological ancient Greece, the line that separated god from man was absolute

Mythological