The serpent or dragon might be the sacred animal or totem of the royal house at the same time that it stood mythically for certain cosmological phenomena, whether moisture or drought, cold or heat, winter or summer.
Plainly the Double Alternative here mythically set forth, springs out of the conflict with the Sirens, and is a deepening of the same to the very bottom.
Nature has her law, and if it be not observed, the penalty follows, when she may be said to be mythically angry.
He may be, as mythically conceived, only one out of a crowd of similar magnified non-natural men or lower animals.
The present universe is mythically arranged in regard to their early adventures: the separation of sky and earth, and so forth.
Many things, in some cases almost all things, are mythically regarded, not as created, but as the results of adventures and metamorphoses among the members of this original race.
The Greeks had a similar legend of feminine impiety by which they mythically explained the origin of the owl, the bat and the eagle-owl.
The earth, as a rule, is mythically averred to have grown out of some original matter, perhaps an animal, perhaps an egg which floated on the waters, perhaps a handful of mud from below the waters.
First we have, in the myths of all races, the most grotesque conceptions of the character of gods when mythically envisaged.
A remarkable example of descent mythically claimed from one of the lower animals is noted by Otfried Muller.
Nearly every important truth respecting the love of beauty in its familiar relations to human life was mythically expressed by the Greeks in their various accounts of the parentage and offices of the Graces.
All this, I said, all of it, proves that savages mythically regard human life as on a level with vegetable no less than with animal life.
But to disengage natural phenomena, mythically stated, from the human tangle of Marchen, to find natural phenomena in such a palimpsest as Perrault's courtly and artificial version of a French popular tale, is a delicate and dangerous task.
In thismythically spiritual atmosphere, all peoples formerly lived and in great part still continue to live.
We know that the image and emotions are mythically personified by us, and this fanciful reality is afterwards infused into the words used in its expression.
The garland so arranged will be said to express the taste it satisfies; insight and reason will be mythically thought to have guided the work by which they are sustained in being.
The elephant near or in the waters is mythically equivalent to the lunar and solar tortoise that dwells on the shores of the lake and sea, or at the bottom of the sea.
This is also what he expressesmythically at the beginning of the seventh book of the Republic, the most important passage in all his writings, which has already been referred to in the third book of the present work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mythically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
