Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Pandora's Secret

After Prometheus's theft of the secret of fire, Zeus ordered Hephaestus to create the woman Pandora as part of the punishment for mankind. Pandora was given many seductive gifts from Aphrodite, Hermes, Charites, and Horae. For fear of additional reprisals, Prometheus warned his brother Epimetheus not to accept any gifts from Zeus, but Epimetheus did not listen, and married Pandora. Pandora had been given a large jar and instructed by Zeus to keep it closed, but she had also been given the gift of curiosity, and ultimately opened it. When she opened it, all of the evils, ills, diseases, and burdensome labor that mankind had not known previously, escaped from the jar, although Pandora was quick enough to close it again..
There is no reason to think Pandora acted out of malice in opening the jar, for she was exercising her curiosity, and also when she saw what was let out of it, she quickly closed it
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In 233 B.C. An Ancient pharoh, Neter, found the place where life began. During his expedition there, he came upon a box. When he opened it, a mass plague swept across his army, leveling 250,000 of his soldiers. He told his comrades of this box and the 'anti-life' it contained

Alexander the Great found this box, in the place where life began during one of his great marches. Again the box was opened, killing 400,000 of his soldiers. Before he died, he ordered teh box to be hidden. he also put a map to this ancient treasure for hismost prized possessions; The Lunar Temple

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