symbolic narratives Quotes

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

Religon is misunderstood mythology

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a

All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.