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)
“A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother—both the mother without and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child’s history is never finished.”
—Terri Apter (20th century)
“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
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