Prometheus

Prometheus was the son of lappets who was one of the Titans. He tricked the gods into eating bare bones instead of good meat. He stole the sacred fire from Zeus and the gods. Prometheus did not tell Zeus the prophecy that one of Zeus's sons will overthrow him in punishment, Zeus commanded that Prometheus be chained for eternity in the Caucasus. There, an eagle (or, according to other sources, a vulture) would eat his liver, and each day the liver would be renewed so the punishment was endless, until Hercules finally killed the bird. Prometheus is known to be one of the most interesting characters in Greek Mythology.

The two most prominent aspects of the Prometheus myth- the creation of man from clay and the theft of fire- have parallels within the mythologies of many cultures throughout the world.

In Greek mythology, the Titans were a race of 12 powerful deities, sons and Daughters of Gaia (mythology) and Uranus, that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. The males were Atlas, Oceanus, Hyperion,Coeus, Cronus,Crius and lapetus and the females were Mnemosyne, Tethys, Theia, Phoebe, Rhea, and Themis. Their role as Elder Gods was overthrown by a race of younger gods, the Olympians, in the Titanomachy ("Battle with the Titans") which affected a mythological paradigm shift that the Greeks may have borrowed from the Ancient Near East.


Among the Titans were the brothers Prometheus and Epimetheus. To them fell the office of populating the world, and providing their creations with natural gifts. Prometheus, whose name means "forsight"took some Earth and shaped it in the god's image. He named his creation Man.

Epimetheus, whose name means "hindsight" gave little thought to his work. He squandered the physical gifts on the lower animals. He gave wings to birds, powerful teeth and claws to lions and bears, and swift legs to horses and deer. When Man's turn came, nothing remained.

Prometheus invented a new gift, and he gave it to the human race. It was Intelligence, and it was better than all the others. It set our race above all the other animals, and gave us dominion over the land. That's the entire story of creation, as other Greeks tell it.

We, however, know the truth. Prometheus created at least one other race, and we believe there are more. We will look for them and, if they exist, we will find them. We will greet them as brothers and sisters, and welcome them into our nation.