Forgive me, my king, I mean no disrespect but I don't want to see any more sons of Troy incur the gods' wrath.

I heard about how you found water, how you saved the whole fleet... Jackpot, Boomer. That asteroid dead ahead is a mountain of tylium.

Only one amongst us, the one we called Old Mother, the last of her kind, only she could speak to the spirits of the earth and ask the wisdom of the Fathers to save our people.

So, the gods created us, the Amazons to influence men's hearts with love and restore peace to the Earth.

And more important, he will let them all recover the gods, the statues, the temple vessels that had been confiscated.

And if you remember the story about Sisyphus, Sisyphus was punished by the gods to push the same rock up a hill, and when he almost got to the end, the rock would roll over, and he would have to start again.

Well, the Greeks thought about what happens when gods and humans and immortality mix for a long time.

Our tissues all have very different abilities to regenerate, and here we see poor Prometheus, who made a rather tricky career choice and was punished by the Greek gods.

Every morning at breakfast, you can go outside the front of the house and make an offering to the god tree, the nyame dua outside your house, and again, you'll talk to the gods and the high gods and the low gods and the ancestors and so on.

Literary critic Northrop Frye once observed that in our primitive days, our literary heroes were -- well, nearly gods, and as civilization advanced, they came down the mountain of the gods, so to speak, and became more human, more flawed, less heroic.

In fact, the world "cultus" originally described people who cultivated the worship of certain gods by performing rituals and maintaining temples.

Every day, all of us here, we're building gods that have gone rampant, and it's time we started knocking them down and forgetting their names.

And this really is a sobering picture upon realizing that we, humans, are in charge of life on earth; we're like the capricious Gods of old Greek myths, kind of playing with life -- and not a great deal of wisdom injected into it.

References to Lovecraftian gods or arcane tomes can be found in many stories by his pen pals, such as Robert E. Howard and Robert Bloch.

But since he had shown far less bravery and much more pride, one of the gods picked up a rabbit and tossed it in his face, dimming his light.

Nanahuatl replied that just as he had sacrificed himself to become Lord Sun, he now needed the nourishing blood of the other gods in order to move through the sky.

They remembered how even the wimpy Tecciztecatl had eventually managed to emulate Nanahuatl's bravery.

Thanks to a pimply weakling whose fortitude inspired all the other gods, the sun moves along its daily path, the rabbit-faced moon following in its wake.

Touched by his heroic mission, the Gods spread Jason’s call for help, and soon he had assembled a not-so-motley crew.

Portrayed as a powerful, heavenly figure, she leads Dante through "Paradiso’s" concentric spheres of Heaven until he is finally face-to-face with God.

Made of gleaming bronze; endowed with superhuman strength, and powered by ichor, the life fluid of the gods, this automaton was unlike anything Hephaestus had forged before.

Thor had just returned to Asgard, and now that the gods knew a giant was in their midst, they disregarded their oaths.

In her writing, she humanized the once aloof gods— now they suffered, fought, loved, and responded to human pleading.

This day occurs during the festival that marks the shift between the summer season, when the gods feed the people, and the winter season, when the people feed the gods in return.