How the World and Mankind Were Created

1. How the World and Mankind Were Created Nina Dang, Kinahr Ghazal Gwendolyn Bishop

2. In the Beginning • In the beginning there was only Chaos • Chaos gives birth to Night and Erebus • Night and Erebus make Love • Love makes Light and Day • Light, Love, and Day creates Earth • Earth makes Heaven • Heaven and Earth create Cyclopes, hundred-hand men, and the Titans

3. The Titans • Cronus kills Heaven and Titans rule • Giants and Furies come from Heaven's blood • Cronus learns that one of his kids is fated to kill him, so he swallows his kids after birth • Rhea (wife of Cronus), gets upset so she hides Zeus • Zeus grows up and forces Cronus to vomit all of the kids he swallowed • Cronus's kids team up with Prometheus and overthrow Titans

4. Afterwards • Gods throw Titans into Tartarus • Atlas forced to hold the weight of the world on his shoulders • Only Prometheus and Epimetheus were spared

5. Allusions The movie Prometheus, the cyclopes in the Odyssey.

6. Three Stories of the Creation of Mankind

7. Prometheus and Epimetheus • Prometheus and Epimetheus selected to create humans. • Prometheus - forethought, was very wise. • Epimetheus -afterthought, was a "scatterbrained person" who reacted on impulse and changed his mind frequently.

8. Epimetheus and Prometheus • Before making mankind Epimetheus had given all his gifts to animals, leaving no good for men. • After realising his mistake Epimetheus asked Prometheus for help. • Prometheus wanted to make man in a more remarkable way than animals by making them stand upright like the gods. • Then he went to the sun and lit a torch and brought it to man. • "A protection to men far better than anything else"

9. How the Gods created Humans • The gods had created a golden race at first. While these were mortal they had lived like gods. • Then the gods began to experiment with metal. • After gold was silver. The silver race had very little intelligence, this race eventually passed away. • The next race was brass. They had been lovers of way and violence. • The last race created and the one that exists today was the iron race. This race is known to be evil and will one day be wiped by Zeus.

10. Pandora • Zeus planned to punish Prometheus for giving the humans fire and by cheating the gods of sacrifices of animals by giving the humans the best part and the gods the worst. • As punishment Zeus gave mankind the first woman; Pandora, who was considered an evil to all men. • Pandora was not meant to be evil by nature but by curiosity. The gods gave her a box and forbade her to open it.

11. Pandora • Once they had given her the box she was sent to Epimetheus. • Pandora needed to know what was in the box so she opened it and plagues, sorrow, and mischief for mankind sprang from the box. In the box there was also Hope that remained • This was overall a lesson to mortals that they can not deceive Zeus. • Prometheus was punished by being tied to a rock and had an eagle come and eat his liver every day.

12. Story of the five ages • In this story men are made of stone. • These men grew so wicked that Zeus determined he would destroy them. • Only 2 humans survived Zeus. Deucalion, Prometheus's niece and Pyrrha, Prometheus' son • They were both loyal worshipers of Zeus so he was not mad that they had lived. • These two began to create the Stone age of humans.

13. Allusion • In Greek, Pandora's name means "all-gifted" There is a jewelry and gift company named Pandora. • Like the Bible, woman causes trouble through curiosity. (Eve and the apple) • Curiosity killed the cat.

14. Questions 1) If you were in Rhea's place, would you have hidden Zeus from Cronus knowing how risky it was? 2) What is the symbolism behind hope remaining in Pandora's box? 3) Why do you think Zeus was upset about Prometheus bringing fire to man? Do you think his punishment was justified?