There are several known traditional variations of the Greek story of Prometheus, and one of the most popular, though, Prometheus,

a titan who tricks Zeus, one of the gods and thus one of the descendants of Titans, the order

of creation here going from earth and heaven, then titans, then gods, with humans being all the way

down at the bottom of the power and importance pyramid.

Prometheus the Titan tricked Zeus, the God, into accepting bones as a sacrifice from humans,

rather than meat, which is why old-school adherence to that particular faith would offer the bones

of their meal to the gods as a sacrifice, rather than

the meat, which they were allowed to keep for themselves, pretty convenient for the humans,

but less so for Zeus.

Prometheus was punished for this act, or rather the humans were punished for his support of

them by Zeus, who vengefully withheld the quote-unquote means of life,

which was fire from humanity.

Prometheus, the story goes, then steals fire from Zeus and brings it down to earth,

sharing it with humans, which earns him a significant punishment from the gods.

He's chained to a rock and cursed to have an eagle eat his liver every day, the liver growing

back each morning so that he can suffer the agony of having it eaten again and again

forever.

Another version of this story, also a quite popular one, is that in revenge for Prometheus giving human beings

fire, Zeus has Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship and blacksmithing, but also heat and fire

and volcanoes and other such smelting related things. He had him build a woman to send out amongst

men. The implication being that men are good and pure and noble and rational by default,

and that it is the introduction of cunning and clever and curious and generally misbehaving women

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