Mythology
- Vile, Vilae: Etruscan mythological name for Greek Iolaus, nephew of Hercules
- Another spelling of Vili: in Norse mythology, Vile was the brother of Oden
- Vile, Vili: are mythological beings in south Slavic mythology, incarnation of beautiful maidens with magic powers
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Famous quotes containing the word mythology:
“If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America; neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in mythology than in any history of America, so called, that I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)