GREEK GOD
Epimetheus

Prometheus often warned his brother

to be careful of any gifts that Jupiter may send, please,

for he knew that the mighty tyrant was untrustworthy; but

when Epimetheus saw Pandora, how beautiful and wise she was

forget all the warnings, and take her home to live with him and

become wife.

Pandora is very happy at home

his new; and even Prometheus, when he saw him, was pleased with

her beauty. He carried a golden coffin, which Jupiter gave him when he

parted, and what Jupiter said contained many precious things; but

The wise Athena, queen of the air, had warned her never to,

never open it, or look at the things inside.

"It must be a jewel" he said

himself; and then he thought about how they would be

she adds to her beauty if she can wear it. "Why

Jupiter gave it to me if I never used it, or just

to see?" she asked.

The more he thought about the golden coffin, the more curious it became

to see what was in it; and every day he

take it down from its shelf and feel the lid, and try peeking into the

inside without opening it.

"Why should I care about what

Athena tell me?" said finally. "He's not

beautiful, and jewelry will be of no use to her. I think I'll see it, though,

anyways. Athena will never know. There is no one else who

will know."

He opened the lid a little, just to

peek inside. Suddenly there was a whooshing, rustling, and

before he could close it again, came out ten thousand strange creatures with

the face was like death and the shape was thin and hideous, as it had yet

I've seen anyone around the world. They wandered for a while

around the room, and then fly to find a place to live where

there is also a human home. They are sickness and care; for

until that time mankind did not suffer from any disease, did not feel

distraction, or worry about what will happen tomorrow.

These creatures fly into every house,

and, without anyone seeing them, nestled in the laps of men and women and

children, and put an end to all their joys; and from that day on

they floated and crept, invisible and inaudible, all over

the state, bringing pain and sorrow and death into every home

ladders.

If Pandora doesn't close the lid that way

quickly, things will get much worse. But he closed it right

in time to prevent the last evil creature from coming out. Creature name

this was a hunch, and even though he was almost half out of the coffin,

Pandora pushed him back and closed the lid so tightly that he

will never be able to escape. If he goes into the world, men will

know since childhood what problems will come to them every day in

their lives, and they will never have any joy or hope

as long as they live.

And this is how Jupiter

trying to make mankind more miserable than before Prometheus

be friends with them.

The next thing Jupiter does is

prometheus for stealing fire from the sun. He ordered

two of his servants, named Strength and Strength, to capture the Titan

he sent a Vulcan blacksmith to tie him up with an iron chain and

tie him to a rock so he can't move his hands or feet.

Vulcan doesn't like to do this, because he

prometheus was a friend, yet he dared not to

obeyed. The great friend of man who gave them

fire and lift them from their misery and show them

they were how to live, chained to the top of the mountain; and there he was

hanging, with whistling storm winds always around him, and hail

the cruel one smashed into his face, and ferocious eagles screamed in

his ears and tore his body apart with their claws

diabolical. Yet he endured all his sufferings without complaining, and he

will never beg for mercy or say that he regrets it

what he's done.

Year after year, and age after age, Prometheus

it depends there. Every now and then old Helios, the driver of the sun car, will

looked down on him and smiled; sometimes a flock of birds

bringing messages from distant lands; as soon as the sea fairy came and

singing beautiful songs in his hearing; and often people

looked at him with a look of pity, and shouted against the tyrant who had been

put it there.

Then, once upon a time, a white cow

down that road, a very beautiful cow, with sad eyes

a big face and a face that looked almost like a human. He stopped and

looking to the cold gray peak and the gigantic body that was chained in

sana. Prometheus looked at it and spoke kindly:

"I know who you are,"

said. "You are Io who used to be a beautiful girl and

happy in distant Argos; and now, because Jupiter is the tyrant and his queen

jealous, you are destined to travel from one country to another

in that inhuman form. But don't lose hope.

Go south and then west, and after a few days you will

come to the great Nile. There you will return to being a girl,

but it's prettier and prettier than ever, and you'll be

the king's wife is the land, and will bear a son, from whom she will

there's a hero who's gonna break my chain and set me free. And me, though,

I waited patiently for a day that not even Jupiter could hasten or

postpone it. Goodbye bye!"

Poor Io will speak, but he will not

could. His sorrowful eyes looked once more at the suffering hero

at the top, and then he turned around and began his long and

tiring into the land of the Nile.

Times passed, and finally a hero

a great man named Hercules came to the land of the Caucasus. Jupiter is feared

lightning and snowstorms and terrifying hail, he climbed the mountain peak

the precipitous one; he killed the ferocious eagle that had been tormenting for so long

the helpless prisoner at that precipitous height; and with a blow

horribly, he breaks Prometheus' shackles and frees the old hero

that grand.

"I knew you were coming" said

Prometheus. "Ten generations ago I was talking about you

to Io, who later became queen of the land of the Nile."

"And Io" said Hercules, "is

mother of the race from which I came."

-DF