From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium)
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Subject: Re: PRAYER, Sun, 27 Aug '95 Prometheus Proton at thine altar
Date: 27 Aug 1995 22:32:44 GMT
Organization: Plutonium College
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This is a continuation of Prometheus and Pandora story as told by  Jean
Lang,A BOOK OF MYTHS, 1915
 
 --- start quoting of Lang's A BOOK OF MYTHS ----

   Surely Zeus, the All Powerful, ruler of Olympus, would have
compassion on Man? But Prometheus looked to Zeus in vain; compassion he
had none. Then, in infinite pity, Prometheus bethought himself of a
power belonging to the gods alone and unshared by any living creature
on the earth.
   "We shall give Fire to the Man whom we have made, " he said to
Epimethus. To Epimethus this seemed an impossibility, but to Prometheus
nothing was impossible. He bided his time and, unseen by the gods, he
made his way into Olympus, lighted a hollow torch with a spark from the
chariot of the Sun and hastened back to earth with this royal gift to
Man. Assuredly no other gift could have brought him more completely the
empire that has since been his. No longer did he tremble and cower in
the darkness of caves when Zeus hurled his lightnings across the sky.
No more did he dread the animals that hunted him and drove him in
terror before them. 
   Armed with fire, the beasts became his vassals. With fire he forged
weapons, defied the frost and cold, coined money, made implements for
tillage, introduced the arts, and was able to destroy as well as to
create.

 --- end quoting of Lang's A BOOK OF MYTHS ----