GREEK GOD
PROMETHEUS

In the past, there were two brothers who did not

like everyone else, it is also not like the Mighty People who live in

mountaintop. They were the sons of one of the Titans who had fought

fight Jupiter and be sent in chains to a powerful prison house in the World

Bottom.

Older names than these brothers

is Prometheus, or Thought; for he is always thinking of the future

and prepare everything for what might happen tomorrow, or

next week, or next year, or maybe a hundred years that will

come by. The younger one is called Epimetheus, or Devotion; for he

always so busy thinking about yesterday, or last year, or a hundred years

the past, so that he did not care at all about what was possible

it happened after a while.

For some reason, Jupiter does not send

these brothers went to prison with the other Titans.

Prometheus did not care to live in the middle

clouds at the top of the mountain. He's too busy for that. While the People

Mighty spend their time in laziness, drinking nectar and eating

ambrosia, he intends to make the world wiser and better than ever.

He went out among the humans to stay

be with them and help them; for his heart is filled with

grief when he finds that they are no longer as happy as they are

golden days when Saturn became king. How poor and

woe to them! He found them living in caves and in

the pits of the earth, shivering with cold because there is no fire, starving to death,

hunted beasts and each other—the most miserable living creatures.

“If only they had fire,” Prometheus said

on itself, “at least they can warm themselves and cook

their food; and after a while they could learn to make equipment

and build your own house. Without fire, they are worse than animals

savage. ."

Then he bravely went to Jupiter and

begging him to give fire to men, so that they may

have little comfort through the long winter months and

bleakest.

"I won't give you a spark,"

said Jupiter. "No, indeed! Why, if man has fire,

they may become as strong and wise as we are, and after some

when they will drive us out of our kingdom. Let them shiver

get cold, and let them live like wild animals. The best is

so that they may be poor and ignorant, that we the Mighty may flourish and

happy.”

Prometheus did not answer; but he had

set his heart to help humanity, and he didn't

capitulated. He turned around, and left Jupiter and his company behind

mighty forever.

As he walked by the sea he found

the reeds, or, as some say, the stems of fennel

tall, growing; and when he broke it, he saw that part

its hollow center was filled with a dry and soft pith

it will burn slowly and keep burning for a long time. Him

take the long stalk in his hand, and start with it towards the residence

the sun in the far east.

"Humans will have fire regardless of

the tyrant who sat on the top of the mountain," he said.

He reached the sun spot in the morning right

when a shining golden ball rises from the earth and begins its daily journey

across sky. He touched the end of the long reed to the fire, and the pith

it burns and burns slowly. Then he turned around and rushed over

return to his own land, bringing with him hidden precious sparks

in the middle of the plant's hole.

He called out to some shivering people from

cave them up and make fire for them, and show them

how to warm yourself with it and how to make another fire from

charcoals. Soon there was a cheerful flame in every rough house in the land, and

men and women gather around him and feel warm and happy, and

thank Prometheus for the wonderful gift he brought to the

Soon they learned to cook

eat like humans, not like animals. They

immediately begin to abandon their wild and barbaric habits; and not

hiding in the dark places of the world, they came out into the open air and

bright sunshine, and rejoicing because life has been given

to them.

After that, Prometheus taught them,

little by little, a thousand things. He showed them how

building houses of wood and stone, and how to tame sheep and cows

and make it useful, and how to plow and sow and reap, and

how to protect themselves from winter storms and wild beasts in

forestland. Then he showed them how to dig the ground

to obtain copper and iron, and how to smel the ore, and

how to turn it into shape and make of it tools and weapons

they needed in peace and war; and when he saw how much

happy in this world, he shouted:

"The new Golden Age is coming, far away

brighter and better than the old!"

Everything may go very well

happy, and the Golden Age may really be coming again, if not

because Jupiter. But one day, when he looked down upon the earth,

he saw the fire burning, and the people who lived in the houses, and

the sheep that eat in the hills, and the grain that ripens in the fields, and

this makes him very angry.

"Who does it all

this is?" She asked.

And someone answered, "Prometheus!"

"What! That young titan!" her

crying out. “Well, I'll punish him in a way that will make him

I wish I'd locked him in a prison house with his relatives. But for

those weak people, let them keep their fire. I'll make

they're ten times more miserable than they were before they had it."

Of course it will be easy enough to deal with

with Prometheus at any time, so Jupiter is not in a hurry. Him

decided to trouble mankind first; and he

thinking of a plan to do it in a very strange way and

swirling.

First of all, he ordered his blacksmith

Vulcan, whose workshop is in the crater of a burning mountain, to retrieve

a lump of clay that he gave him, and formed it into

a lady. The Vulcan does as he is told; and when

he had completed the drawing, he took it to Jupiter, which was

sitting among the clouds with all the Mighty People around him. That

nothing but a lifeless body, but a great blacksmith had

gave him a more perfect shape than any statue ever

fabricated.

"Come now!" said Jupiter, though,

"let's all give a nice gift to women

this;" and he began by giving his life.

Then the others came in turns,

each with a gift for that extraordinary creature. Somebody

give her beauty; and another pleasant voice; and

other manners; and another good heart; and skill

another in many arts; and, lastly, one gives him a sense of desire

know. Then they called him Pandora, which means the Blessed One,

because he had received gifts from all of them.

Pandora is so beautiful and so talented

so that no one can help love her. When the People Mighty

admiring it for a while, they gave it to Mercury, who

light; and he led him to the side of the mountain to where Prometheus and

his brother lives and works hard for the good of mankind. Him

met Epimetheus first, and said to him:

"Epimetheus, this

a beautiful woman, whom Jupiter sent you to be

your wife."

-DF