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Creation of Humans — Greek Mythology #1
How humans were created and what made Zeus angry
According to Greek mythology, the story of the creation of man on the earth is very strange! After becoming the lord of the gods on Mount Olympus, the god Zeus once dreamed of creating people and animals on the earth. When Zeus was almost overwhelmed with the intention of creating mortals and other creatures on earth, the burden of fulfilling that wish fell on Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus.
“As soon as possible, bring the two of you together on Earth, including humans and other animals.”
Zeus summoned Prometheus and Epimetheus and issued such an order. No one at the time had the courage to disobey any of Zeus’ orders, so needless to say, Prometheus and Epimetheus rejoiced at his assignment.
However, the creation of the living world is not a trivial matter, so Zeus donated some necessary materials to the two brothers as materials to create the living world. He said that they should calculate and provide them with understanding in every living thing so that in the future they can save themselves from various dangers in the world. Among them were sharp nails, teeth, shells, keen eyesight, intelligence, sense of smell, and so on. On the other hand, as soon as Zeus gave them the materials, Epimetheus quickly and foolishly made a bunch of animals and birds. He spent all the qualities that were to be divided into different creatures equally. As a result, there was nothing left to give to the humans at that moment due to his negligence.
While Epimetheus was showing his stupidity and impulsiveness only emotionally without thinking of anything, on the other side of the earth, his brother Prometheus was building a very beautiful animal with the physical constitution of the gods, called Man. Prometheus lifted their heads and gave them the ability to see the sky, the goddess Athena gave them all the mental qualities and Hermes gave them justice and conscience. Some say that Epimetheus himself created man, and his brother Prometheus instructed him to do so.
No matter what he did, it was seen at the end of the creation of man that there was no material left by Zeus to protect himself in the face of danger and to avoid or deal with the terrible natural…
