There are two versions about the
creation of people and gender. One tells that the origin lies in the story
of the stones of Deukialon and Pyrrha. The other says that it was
Prometheus who created gender out of the ashes of the Titans and Zagreus,
together with the good and the evil feelings. We will let the question
open. Now let's have a look at Prometheus.
Zeus decided one day that he wanted people to offer him something,
a kind of "existence tax". He wanted to make their lives hard, and so he
asked for the best meat of their animals. But Prometheus stood on the side
of people and put all the good meat inside a disgusting gut in one pile,
while he hid all the bones and gutters under a succulent piece of meat in
another pile. Zeus was supposed to choose between the two and, of course,
he took the nice one. When he realized the betrayal it was already too
late. But a decision is a decision, and not even Zeus could change his
mind. Therefore, from then on people should offer him only bones and
gutters.
But what was people supposed to do with all these
nice meat and nothing to cook it with? Prometheus took part again and
stole the fire from Hephaestus to give it to the humans. When Zeus looked
at the Earth and saw all the lights around, he ordered Hephaestus to take
Prometheus handcuffed and abandon him in the Caucasus. There, day after
day, an eagle comes to eat his liver, which regenerates during the night
to be eaten again the following day. A pretty terrible punishment...
The Beginning / Gods of the Olympus / Smaller Gods
