Delving even further into the promethian backstory- the titans charge was to give all creatures their abilities and attributes.
Having doled out the best traits, Prometheus gave fire and an upright stance to the clay golems he had created....which Athena had provided the animating spark for. Fire, which Zeus had forbidden to us.
It’s interesting to note that this isn’t what consigned him to eternal torment. He’d tricked Zeus by wrapping a bag of bones in fine oil and skin, which Zeus chose over a fine carcass of meat. This meant that bones would always be his tribute. This is what enraged Zeus. The combination of having provided forbidden knowledge or attributes......and interfering in the worship of Zeus, by men, as Zeus would have had it.
This is wildly informative on two counts. One is that it shows a difference in how those people could see their relationship with the divine. As adversarial. Second, that the notion of attributes and knowledge being forbidden to men has been the domain of all western theism since classical antiquity.
Having doled out the best traits, Prometheus gave fire and an upright stance to the clay golems he had created....which Athena had provided the animating spark for. Fire, which Zeus had forbidden to us.
It’s interesting to note that this isn’t what consigned him to eternal torment. He’d tricked Zeus by wrapping a bag of bones in fine oil and skin, which Zeus chose over a fine carcass of meat. This meant that bones would always be his tribute. This is what enraged Zeus. The combination of having provided forbidden knowledge or attributes......and interfering in the worship of Zeus, by men, as Zeus would have had it.
This is wildly informative on two counts. One is that it shows a difference in how those people could see their relationship with the divine. As adversarial. Second, that the notion of attributes and knowledge being forbidden to men has been the domain of all western theism since classical antiquity.
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