Monday, 6 August 2012
Pandora and Prometheus
Satellizer El Bridget |
The protagonist from the anime called Freezing is a Pandora, a female soldier who has stigmata implanted in her body to gain power to defeat the Nova alien race who terrorizes the planet Earth
Prometheus , and Pandora
Enemy characters from the video game series Megaman ZX who are servants of the "Model W". You will fight them at the later stages of the game. |
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The Impact of Mythologies
Greek Mythologies like The Creation of Man had a great impact on our world today especially on entertainment. The Olympics is a great example! Originally the purpose of these competition games is to celebrate the life of the gods especially Zeus. The athlete who obtains the gold medal will be treated like a god; gaining more privledges than a normal citizen. It then changes over all the years since now it's every four years, and you should know what it is and what it's all about today.
Since there many examples and references to Greek mythology, and I will list some of the examples that is related to The Creation of Man
The Creation of man by Prometheus
Prometheus :Left, Epimetheus: Right |
Prometheus and Epimetheus were spared imprisonment in Tatarus because they had not fought with their fellow Titans during the war with the Olympians. They were given the task of creating man. Prometheus shaped man out of mud, and Athena breathed life into his clay figure.
Prometheus had assigned Epimetheus the task of giving the creatures of the earth thier various qualities, such as swiftness, cunning, strength, fur, wings. Unfortunately, by the time he got to man Epimetheus had given all the good qualities out and there were none left for man. So Prometheus decided to make man stand upright as the gods did and to give them fire.
Prometheus loved man more then the Olympians, who had banished most of his family to Tartarus. So when Zeus decreed that man must present a portion of each animal they scarified to the gods Prometheus decided to trick Zeus. He created two piles, one with the bones wrapped in juicy fat, the other with the good meat hidden in the hide. He then bade Zeus to pick. Zeus picked the bones. Since he had given his word Zeus had to accept that as his share for future sacrafices. In his anger over the trick he took fire away from man. However, Prometheus lit a torch from the sun and brought it back again to man. Zeus was enraged that man again had fire. He decided to inflict a terrable punishment on both man and Prometheus.
Pandora |
Prometheus had warned Epimetheus not to accept gifts from Zeus but, Pandora's beauty was too great and he allowed her to stay. Eventually, Pandora's curiosity about the jar she was forbidden to open became to great. She opened the jar and out flew all manor of evils, sorrows, plagues, and misfortunes. However, the bottom of the jar held one good thing - hope.
Zeus was angry at Prometheus for three things: being tricked on scarifices, stealing fire for man, and for refusing to tell Zeus which of Zeus's children would dethrone him. Zeus had his servants, Force and Violence, seize Prometheus, take him to the Caucasus Mountains, and chain him to a rock with unbreakable adamanite chains. Here he was tormented day and night by a giant eagle tearing at his liver.
Zeus gave Prometheus two ways out of this torment. He could tell Zeus who the mother of the child that would dethrone him was. Or meet two conditions: First, that an immortal must volunteer to die for Prometheus. Second, that a mortal must kill the eagle and unchain him. Eventually, Chiron the Centaur agreed to die for him and Heracles killed the eagle and unbound him.
The story is from here
Moral of the Story #2
Karma Wheel |
The moral of the story is treat others as you want to be treated, and there are other quotes that are related to this such as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", " you reap what you sow", "what goes around comes around" etc. It's expressed in the story by how the old woman treated to the sparrow and the old man. and vice-versa. If you treat people good you get treated good back. Same as if you did something wrong or bad there are consequences as a result. There are consequences to every action you make, and it's entirely up to you on how deal with it.
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