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Pandora's Box

Last modified on 07/12/2011, 04:37 PM

La beauté de Pandore fit l'effet d'une bombe au milieu des premiers hommes

 

The beauty of Pandora had the effect of a bomb among of the first men. Why? Their wives were they all ugly? Or ... Imagine they had never seen a woman before …


La boîte de Pandore, par KeeperstrideIn the Greek myth of Pandora, a Titans quarrel disturb the harmony between gods and men. And for once, the men are innocent. The quarrel between God Prometheus, the creator of Men,Click > below with Zeus, Titan, too, but a divine coupSee page placed at the head of the new gods, the Olympians. The whole affair started sharing Mecone, where Prometheus plays a joke to the proud God. The latter, stung, punishes Prometheus, which is understandable.

 

Conflit entre les dieux et les hommes ? © Frank FrazettaBut carried away by his enthusiasm, he forgets that he is God and men suffer collateral damage. You said divine justice? "... And God Created Woman to punish men." To make a more severe punishment, he created her as beautiful as the dawning, as fresh as dew, as golden as sunset. Seeing her, boys and men draw a tongue as the Tex Avery wolf. God said: "Have you seen? Now forget her. Pandora is not for you. It is for my friend the Titan." His friend was the brother of Prometheus Quick-Minded.


Pandore, huile sur toile de Jules Lefèbvre But he was just the opposite, so he was called Epimetheus Slow-Minded. He played the wolf with the beautiful chick and carried her off to his hut to show her his collection of butterflies. So far, so good. More surprising is the coming of the first woman long after the men. Before her, how was man able to reproduce? He wasn't. Our designers carefully controlled geneticsVoir L'homme OGM of human species. Their laboratories prevented any risk of unwanted cross.

 

Pandore, Pandore, réfléchis bien avant d'ouvrir cette maudite boîteThat is why our designers have not considered it necessary to embarrass us with sex. It was better for productivity; remember that we were created to serve them. And men, asexual, were drooling like cattle before the divine love. Because of their side, the gods were sexed and not a little. Which, for their minions men, should be a sort of tantalizing.

 

Or not.


Les géants jouent avec nos faibles femmes… © Frank Frazetta, La main pleineZeus God said: "Look, but don't touch." Zeus God teasing us with a taboo chick, whom he wished to keep to himself, that's his type. But why did he gave her to the moron Titan, Epimetheus Slow-Minded? Now we will see the cunning of Zeus. At the back of his mind, God has an idea as vicious as the sharing of the meat he had not resigned. Actually, he was aiming Prometheus Quick-Minded, brother of the idiot. But Prometheus was cautious after the MeconeSee La création des hommes affair.


Pandore, Pandore, ne peux-tu pas t'en empêcher ? Foreseing the trick, Prometheus had told his simpleton brother to refuse any gift from Zeus. But this time Zeus God was smarter than his cleaver nephew. When he gave Pandora to Epimetheus, the latter refused, grieving inwardly: "No, thank you, I promised my brother not to accept any gift from you." So Zeus whispered: "Yes, but this woman is not any gift.Lost in translation : in French, "elle n'est pas un cadeau" means "she is a real pain" She is all gifts together. That is quite different." Epimetheus, delighted with the good fortune, played Tex Avery's wolf, and hop to the hut.  Not any gift,See previous note huh??

 

Pas un cadeau ?!? © Mafalda, par Quino

 

La beauté de Pandore est le titre d'un film québécois de 1999 qui n'a pas rencontré son public, comme on dit.The All-Golden, All-Gifted Pandora, the Beloved of the gods, was not any gift indeed. Please note that if Prometheus had created man alone,Except for his eternal soul, which was an Athena's gift. Click > Zeus, to create woman, had asked a helping hand to all his friends the Olympians, and each of them had added a talent of his own to the DNA of Pandora. When a woman is called All-Gifts, no doubt, she is not any woman. Epimetheus enjoyed the gift and started laughing at his brother's doubts. But Zeus had imagined something that quickly spoilt the love story. Pandora kept a mysterious box she should not open under any circumstances.

 

Olympus, la boîte de Pandore No woman can resist curiosity, said Zeus, and Bluebeard agreed. Despite of her numerous gifts, Pandora  was no exception, she opened the cursed box, while innumerable ills are left to befall men. At first glance, they are still there. Porca Madonna, ma che vergogna! What lies behind this misogynist gibberish? In fact, the box was not Pandora's. She found it at the Titans. And we can guess what this myth really tell us. Prometheus loved to tinker in genetic science for which he had a prodigious talent.

 

Aïe ! Pandore, ta boîte est entrouverte !Under the name of Enki, the same Titan was considered by the Sumerians as an outstanding geneticist. (Source)Alan Parks Les Chroniques du Girku, Le secret des Etoiles sombres So he had a lab with experiments going on. Including dozens of human stem in an incubator. This is the box that Pandora opened. May be this was planned with Zeus, may be she decided alone, anyway she wanted to modify genetic sequences, and she did unfortunately. Thus among docile hard-working men, appeared the gruff, the stubborn, the twisted: ie humankind as we know it now.

 

Pandore, par Ann-LanToday humankind could be the result of a genetic manip that went wrong. The myth of Pandora might tell a different story which says much the same thing. Pandora is the first woman that man ever sees. She is not like him. Between his legs, nothing but a gaping hole. And when she opens the box, what wonders for the lucky, but what uncertainty about the result! Pandora is the first progenitor of mankind. Farewell, rigor of the lab.

 

Opening Pandora's box was opening the lottery of genetics, introducing the "wild" -say natural- reproduction.