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//The Myth: What Is Pandora's Box?[[image:pandora_large.jpg width="400" height="484"]]//
-Pandora's Box is a curious explanation Myth Greek myth a God called Prometheus, a God who loved humans and wanted to help them out.

-Other Gods did not believe humans should have fire, but Prometheus believed that people should have it for survival and that this would outweigh whatever bad they could do with it. So he stole fire from the Gods and gave it to man.

-A God called Zeus wanted to punish humans, so he created the first woman named Pandora.

-Each God gave her gifts. Hephaestus, a God, shaped her from clay, making her look flawless. Aphrodite, a third God, gave her feminity, and Athena her taught crafts. Hermes, under Zeus's orders, taught Pandora to be deceitful, stubborn, and curious.

-All the Gods gaveher a "pathos," which is a jar in Greek; the Gods warned her never to open this box.

-Pandora was taken to Epimetheus, Prometheus's brother, and was given to him as a wife. Epimetheus astonished by Pandora's beauty, accepted the offer to marry her.

-Eventually, Pandora could not curb her curiosity, and opened the box. Out came every horror in the word- hate, anger, sickness, poverty. She quickly shut it, realizing and scared by the evil spirits; the only horror that stayed inside was hopelessness. Even when people have horrible lives, they still have hope because hopelessness is still in the box.

-Zeus gave Pandora curiosity and a mysterious box because he knew she would eventually open it and unleash these horrors onto the world, and he wanted to punish the humans for the fire they took.



__Gods/Goddesses Involved:__
Prometheus Zeus Hephaestus Epimetheus Aphrodite Athena Hermes



=__Curious Explanation Myth:__= Pandora's Box explained why there was evil in the world, and how women came to be.

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