The Potter's Wheel in Myth and Legend
In Ancient Egyptian mythology, the deity Khnum was said to have formed the first humans on a potter's wheel.
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Famous quotes containing the words potter, wheel, myth and/or legend:
“I think if she lived in
A little shoe-house—
That little old woman was
Surely a mouse!”
—Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)
“It might become a wheel spoked red and white
In alternate stripes converging at a point
Of flame on the line, with a second wheel below,
Just rising, accompanying, arranged to cross,
Through weltering illuminations, humps
Of billows, downward, toward the drift-fire shore.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)
“We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.”
—Hugo Ball (1886–1927)