Pandora
The Ancients
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The Greek Myths of Pandora
In ancient greek stories, myths of pandora. She's a gift from the gods, almost or she's part of a plan by the gods. So zeus is tricked on two counts by prometheus. Prometheus, a titan, steals fire, which the gods don't want men to have yet. And he also tricks zeus in the mode of sacrifice that he gets. It's always seemed a bit strange, i think, that when the greeks sacrifice to the gods, they sacrifice the sort of inedible bits, bones, fat, like awful o vegetales. All of this sounds repulsive to me, but there we go.
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