Fairy stories about Prometheus (except for stealing fire)

Prometheus, as a descendant of Titan, stood on the side of the new Olympus God in the Titan War led by Zeus and Cronus, so he was appreciated by Zeus and stayed at Olympus.

He made human beings out of clay according to his own body, and Athena endowed human beings with soul and sacred life.

Not long ago, Zeus exiled his father Cronus and overthrew the ancient gods, from whom Prometheus was born. Zeus and his children became the new masters in the sky, and they began to notice the newly formed human beings. They demand that human beings respect them as a condition for protecting human beings.

After that, the gods held a joint meeting. This meeting will determine the rights and obligations of mankind. Prometheus attended the meeting as a defender of mankind. At the meeting, he tried to make the gods stop demanding sacrifice conditions because they promised to protect mankind. The son of Titan is determined to use his wisdom to deceive the gods.

He killed a big bull on behalf of his creation, and asked the gods to choose the part they liked. He cut the sacrificed bull into pieces and divided it into two piles. A pile of meat, viscera and fat, covered with cowhide, with a cow's belly on it; The other pile is full of cow bones, cleverly wrapped in cow suet. This pile is bigger than the other. Zeus was fooled into choosing the pile of cow bones.

Since then, human beings have kept the meat they hunted, and wrapped the remaining bones in fat and offered them to the gods. Zeus was deceived and very angry, and decided to get back at Prometheus. Therefore, he refused to provide mankind with the last thing necessary for life: fire. However, Prometheus managed to steal the heavenly fire and secretly brought it to mankind, which made man the spirit of all things.

Zeus was furious at his reckless disobedience. He made other mountain gods chain Prometheus to a rock in the Caucasus mountains. A hungry evil eagle comes to peck at his liver every day, and his liver always grows back. His pain will last for 3 thousand years. And he resolutely faced suffering and never lost courage in front of Zeus.

Finally, Hercules restored the friendship between Prometheus and Zeus, found the golden apple and killed the evil eagle, thus saving Prometheus.

Prometheus has a firm belief: "I believe that I can create people, or at least destroy the gods of Olympus. This depends on his high wisdom, for which he has to suffer forever to atone. "

According to Prometheus, creation means offending heaven, and if you offend heaven, you must atone. "Everything that human beings can enjoy is perfect, and it must be profaned before it can be obtained, and from then on, it will have to pay for itself again and again. The offended God will drop the flood of suffering and worry and attack the noble and hardworking human generation.

Extended information

According to legend, Prometheus, the ancient Greek god, stole fire from Zeus and brought it to the world to save the hungry and cold mankind. In ancient Greece, before each Olympic Games, people lit the flame in front of the temple of Hera.

After the founding of the modern Olympic Games, this tradition was not followed at first. Until the 7th Antwerp Olympic Games in 192, in order to mourn the people who died in the First World War, the organizers lit the torch symbolizing peace in the main venue, but neither the torch relay nor the fire from ancient Olympia was carried out.

in p>1934, the IOC decided that during the Olympic Games, the Olympic flame should be burned in the main venue from the opening to the closing, and the flame must be collected from Olympia, the ancient Olympic site in Greece, and transmitted to the host city in the form of torch relay. Since then, the torch relay has become an essential ceremony for every Olympic Games.

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