Stories

Prometheus

Sure many of you have heard of Prometheus the titan friend of men and one of the brothers of Atlas the Titan condemned to keep Earth, Prometheus one of the most important Titans tube to do an errand for Zeus was to create a ritual to worship the gods who was killed a goat and pick up parts, Prometheus offered Zeus the part most bonitaque were the skins making him think it was the most appealing part, but actually the other part contained everything edible, by that the Greeks burned the bones and skins and then meats are eaten, but Zeus was annoyed by the trap that put Prometheus and remove them fire to humans so they could not cook the meat and the have to eat it like animals, but Prometheus was upset and decided to intervene in the matter and went to the forge of Hephaestus the god of fire and caught a spark of fire and keep it in a branch of cañavea and handed it to the man but Zeus is angry with Promet eo and tied him to a stone that could not be separated ranges and that was not all Zeus iso an eagle appeared every morning and his liver was eaten but being immortal regenerated producing an eternal torture, but one day appeared Hercules one of his travels and he felt sorry for him so he broke the chains and let him go and live his life.

Uranus the Titan of heaven.

Surely you will have heard about the great Titan of the sky Uranus and his son Cronos who would later stripped him of the throne, but good here we go.

Uranus was one of the two primal titans, the other was Gea his own mother with which he would have the other titans, the first generation among them Cronos who already commented before this was much more visionary than his father and decided to strip him of the throne and then kill him, when he succeeded he had several children with a human, but an oracle told him that one of his sons would kill him, so he decided to eat them all, but his wife gave him a stone instead of his son Zeus and but here the story varies depending on where you read it, many say that Zeus was raised by nymphs on a tree branch meaning he did not belong to heaven or Earth, others say he was raised by a goat or his Grandmother Gea, well read where the leas always has the same ending and is that Zeus decided to kill Kronos and stop the killing thus fulfilling the prophecy.

Pandora’s box

This is one of the great stories of Greek mythology, the first woman.

This is a story of revenge of Zeus against man and Titan Prometheus for stealing the fire, he went into a rage and asked the god of fire to model the first woman with a squirrel, each of the gods gave him a gift Athena gave her wisdom, apolo music, aphrodite beauty and hermes eloquence Zeus himself breathed life into her and called her Pandora, which means the one who has the gifts, she got married with Prometheus brother epimetheus and gave him a box who told him not to open, but one of the gifts that gave the gods was curiosity, to open the escape all the misfortunes and evils that invaded the world as old age, disease, sadness, madness … When he saw what he did, he regretted a lot and wanted to fix the problems he had caused. He dedicated himself to wandering around the world offering everyone that hope that was the only thing left. 

why mythology is so important?

The most important Nordic and Greek mythologies have been very important in popular culture, as well as historical feats. Archaeologists have discovered on countless occasions historical objects with an incredible story from behind as the time Thor’s son Odin stole his hammer «miolmir» a weapon forged by the giants in the heart of a dying star, it was stolen by a giant Ice and Thor to retrieve it disguised as a maiden with the name of Fureya and when he infiltrated the castle he stole the giant his precious hammer.

Mythology has always been a subject from which artistic and religious conceptions about the origin of the universe emerge. It is a kind of alternate reality, a world of allegories and fantasies in which man sees himself identified and makes use of him to understand himself. This is why, when entering the study of mythology, it is possible to understand the origin of any worldview referring to a culture or religion.