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Vishnu Puarana is one of the eighteen traditional puranas, which were an important genre of smriti text, and the repository of much of traditional Indian mythology... Most of the puranas are highly sectarian as is the Vishnu Purana which is focused on the worship of Vishnu . It gives an exhaustive account of Vishnu’s mystic deeds – many of which have become the common mythic currency for many traditional Hindus – as well as instructions for how, where, and when Vishnu is to be worshipped.
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Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

chris hedges

— War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

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Despite the mythic heights to which he was raised, Azikiwe was nothing if not pragmatic, a realist always conscious of his limits and ever eager to extract all that was possible from that limited horizon.

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— Olatunji Ololade, in "Between then and now" at The Nation Online (10 March 2009)

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The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet’s Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.

camille paglia

— p. 42 ("No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality")

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On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is what is decisive has never been lost, despite times of decline, so long as the Nordic blood was still alive. Heroism, in fact, took many forms, from the warrior nobility of Siegfried or Hercules to the intellectual nobility of Copernicus and Leonardo , the religious nobility of Eckehart and Lagarde, or the political nobility of Frederick the Great and Bismarck , and its substance has remained the same.

alfred rosenberg

— Heldenhaftigkeit jedoch ist der Grundtypus aller nordischen Völker. Diese Heldenhaftigkeit der alten Mythenzeit aber — und das ist das Ausschlaggebende — ist nie verloren gegangen trotz vieler Zeiten des Niederbruchs — solange dieses nordische Blut noch irgendwo lebendig war. Der Heroismus nahm zwar verschiedene Formen an, er führt vom Schwertadel Siegfrieds und Herakles zum Forscheradel Koppernings und Leonardos, zum Religionsadel Eckeharts und Lagardes, zum politischen Adel Friedrichs und Bismarcks, das Wesen ist das gleiche geblieben. (Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts ("The Myth of the Twentieth Century") - Page 81 - 1930)

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Most of the puranas are highly sectarian as is the Shiva Purana, which is one of the longer and larger puranas. It gives an exhaustive account Shiva’s mythic deeds – many of which have become the common mythic currency for many traditional Hindus – as well as instructions for how, where, and when Shiva is to be worshipped.


— James G. Lochtefeld, in "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: N-Z (2002)", p.637

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A single tale of such holy and mysterious content as to capture the soul – scientific in its data, mythic in its form.


— Jane Blewer - National Catholic Reporter, Feb 5,1993

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Fascism is a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultra-nationalism.


— Roger Griffin, in The Nature of Fascism (1993), p. 26

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How can the epic of evolution be told in a multitude of personally and collectively meaningful (mythic) ways, so that it inspires billions of human beings with different worldviews to really want, and then successfully manifest, this vision?


— Michael Dowd - The Vision Project [3] (Sourced)

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