Mythographer

Mircea Eliade

Literature

1907–1986

"The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the "founding of the world": where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence."

🇫🇷Roland Barthes

semiotic literary criticism

Structuralism

1915–1980

"Bourgeois norms are experienced as the evident laws of a natural order—the further the bourgeois class propagates its representations, the more naturalized they become."

Proclus

Philosophy

Neoplatonism

"For this, to draw a right line from every point, to every point, follows the definition, which says, that a line is the flux of a point, and a right line an indeclinable and inflexible flow."

Pindar

Literature

-516–-436

"Pythian 3, translated by Frank J. Nisetich"

Hesiod

Literature

b. -775

"Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy."

🇩🇪Max Müller

Religion

1823–1900

"India must be conquered again, and that second conquest should be a conquest by education."

🇺🇸William Irwin Thompson

Philosophy

1938–2020

"The Evolution of William Irwin Thompson Cultural Historian a 2006 essay by Joy E. Stocke"

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Philosophy

1877–1947

"works provide virtually a complete education in themselves."

🇬🇧Robert Graves

Literature

1895–1985

"The dead may speak the truth only, even when it discredits themselves."

🏛️Aesop

Literature

-619–-563

"The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'"

🇬🇧James Lovelock

Science

1919–2022

"Bacteria... have been here for three and a half billion years, and without them we have no chance whatsoever of survival. Humans are something very recent, like the froth on top of a glass of beer."

🇬🇧James Frazer

Literature

1854–1941

"The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes."

🏛️Apollonius of Rhodes

Literature

-294–-214

"The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius, tr. R. C. Seaton with parallel Greek text at the Internet Sacred Text Archive"