Pandora's Box of Troubles.

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The Olympic Games is halfway through, and the Olympic Torch symbolises Fire which the Titan Prometheus, stole from the Olympian Gods and gave it to mankind...which made me think of the revenge it invoked from Jupiter upon mankind...

Pandora

Jupiter looked down upon the earth, and he saw the fires burning, and the people living in houses, and the flocks feeding on the hills, and the grain ripening in the fields, and this made him very angry. Up until then, mankind had not had much worries, but this was about to change...

Jupiter ordered his blacksmith Vulcan, to take a lump of clay which he gave him, and mold it into the form of a woman. Vulcan did just that and when he had finished the image, he carried it up to Jupiter, who was sitting among the clouds with all the Mighty Folk around him. It was nothing but a mere lifeless body, but the great blacksmith had given it a form more perfect than anything ever made.

“Come now!” said Jupiter, “let us all give some goodly gift to this woman;” and he began by giving her life.

Then the others came in their turn, each with a gift for the marvelous creature. One gave her beauty; and another a pleasant voice; and another good manners; and another a kind heart; and another skill in many arts; and, lastly, some one gave her curiosity. Then they called her Pandora, which means the all-gifted, because she had received gifts from them all.

Pandora was so beautiful and so wondrously gifted that no one could help loving her. When the Mighty Folk had admired her for a time, they gave her to Mercury, the light-footed; and he led her down the mountain side to the place where Prometheus and his brother were living and toiling for the good of mankind. He met Epimetheus first, and said to him:

“Epimetheus, here is a beautiful woman, whom Jupiter has sent to you to be your wife.”

Prometheus had often warned his brother to beware of any gift that Jupiter might send, for he knew that the mighty tyrant could not be trusted; but when Epimetheus saw Pandora, how lovely and wise she was, he forgot all warnings, and took her home to live with him and be his wife.

Pandora was very happy in her new home; and even Prometheus, when he saw her, was pleased with her loveliness. She had brought with her a golden casket, which Jupiter had given her at parting, and which he had told her held many precious things; but wise Athena, the queen of the air, had warned her never, never to open it, nor look at the things inside.

Pandora's curiosity eventually got the better of her and one day she opened the lid a little, just to peep inside. All at once there was a whirring, rustling sound, and before she could shut it down again, out flew ten thousand strange creatures with death-like faces and gaunt and dreadful forms, such as nobody in all the world had ever seen.

These creatures flew into every house, and, without any one seeing them, nestled down in the bosoms of men and women and children, and put an end to all their joy; and ever since that day they have been flitting and creeping, unseen and unheard, over all the land, bringing pain and sorrow and death into every household.

If Pandora had not shut down the lid so quickly, things would have gone much worse. But she closed it just in time to keep the last of the evil creatures from getting out. The name of this creature was Foreboding, and although he was almost half out of the casket, Pandora pushed him back and shut the lid so tight that he could never escape. If he had gone out into the world, men would have known from childhood just what troubles were going to come to them every day of their lives, and they would never have had any joy or hope so long as they lived.

Would you have liked the "gift" to be able to see into the future?

Cheers!

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Interesting read. Thank you.

Well at least I know you looked at my website. LOL I didn't go into the whole story as you did. Obviously.

Uhhmmm, actually I didn't, but I will do so now!

Okay,

Been there, shared your page on my google+, followed you as well, and I have book-marked your page to get some recipes when I need them....P.S. nice website!

Thank you. I try to make it nice for everyone.

Seeing into the future can be a worse temptation. These myths synch up with Eve in the garden of Eden. The best choice is to have positive thinking and forge your future with-it!

I agree totally!

In Greek mythology, Pandora (Greek: Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶν, pān, i.e. "all" and δῶρον, dōron, i.e. "gift", thus "the all-endowed", "the all-gifted" or "the all-giving")[1] was the first human woman created by the gods, specifically by Hephaestus and Athena on the instructions of Zeus.[2][3] As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of earth as part of the punishment of humanity for Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire, and all the gods joined in offering her "seductive gifts". Her other name—inscribed against her figure on a white-ground kylix in the British Museum[4]—is Anesidora, "she who sends up gifts"[5] (up implying "from below" within the earth).

According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar (pithos), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as "Pandora's box" (see below), releasing all the evils of humanity—although the particular evils, aside from plagues and diseases, are not specified in detail by Hesiod—leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again.[6]

The Pandora myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world.

Hi, Antonio.

Very nice to hear from you again. Great Tale.

Paul.

Thanks Paul!

I have never come across that tale Antonio, thank you. Very profound, many parallels to today's world.

Just a twist perhaps we know the future, it is just that we can not remember how we wrote the story.

Thanks Alexander, nice twist...I keep changing my story and so I re-write my future!

Would I have liked to have a gift like that.. Hmmm nah, because there isn't one, we creat it, but I guess she didn't know at the time.... Lol

I wonder why there are so many clairvoyants around then....are they for real?

Yes Antiono, Pandora's box, no, I would not like that, but yes, i would also have peeked in Pandora's box. Thanks, marion

Yes, we are all inquisitive ...thanks for the comment!

I have never heard the story before but have used the term like many people.

What an educational Post Antonio ! Thanks so very much.

I think our grandson has this box hidden beneath his toys in his closet !

Have a great day and thanks again !

Steve

LOL,

Make sure he keeps it sealed!

We are, in fact we try not to go into his room because I am convinced there are monsters under his bed !

Funny uncle!

Not if is dark...........

Hi Antonio, very interesting indeed. Irv.

Thanks Irv!

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