However, even this quality would be bearable and would not have cost the world of men so much, if only the woman crafted by Hephaestus had followed certain rules.
Pandora’s charms, awakening an irresistible and unquenchable lust in men, this dimwitted brood, also in a way echoed Hephaestus’s mother, who knew how to distract the father of gods and men from any exciting business. Thus, Hephaestus, the grand-nephew of his own wife, put into Pandora not only all his passion for Aphrodite, but also all his jealousy for his wife. Remember that Hephaestus was Aphrodite’s husband- a jealous one but nevertheless loved by the most beautiful of the goddesses, his father’s aunt. The effectiveness of this trick was confirmed in the Trojan War, which forever severed the relationship between gods and humans. The first one is incredible feminine beauty. And the Greek god Zeus, eager to take revenge on the titan Prometheus for stealing fire for people (men), ordered his gifted son Hephaestus to make a creature that would put limitations on the almost endless possibilities of man.
This is how Eve emerged, the first woman, if we ignore Lilith. God, who had created Adam without a particular plan in mind, felt compelled to finalize the project. Like another woman we remember from Hebrew mythology, she was sculpted at the behest of a supreme deity, for the specific purpose of seducing either the first, or the most intelligent man, or a recently conquered deity. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation The birth of Pandora To what do we compare this innovation of Hesiod’s bordering on falsification? Imagine that someone, intent on describing the problems of modern society, suddenly announces that the fashion industry and sex work are to blame for it all: the former created mannequins, which gave rise to a deadly cult of super-skinny fashion models, and the latter learned how to produce inflatable women for psychosomatic exercises of rich men who are allegedly afraid of connecting with real women. (Hesiod, Works and Days, translation by Bruce MacLennan) He sent the Argus-slaying, famed swift messenger Had given gifts to her, sorrows for hard-working men.īut when the sire had made the hopeless, towering trap, Pandora, since all those who hold Olympian homes
The herald of the gods put in, and named the maid Hesiod came up with a tale of a “beautiful evil”, or κακὸν καλόν, embodied in Pandora. It is believed that the myth of Pandora is a very late reworking of some oriental legends that made such a strong impression on Hesiod that he decided to inlay with it the key Greek legend-the creation myth. And Pandora is, if not the main, then one of the main heroines of the world of our yesterday that is not yet finished and, fortunately, has not yet finished us. We still live in the era of transition from patriarchy, from the so-called traditional values-from might as right, from the rule of the mass man, from the cult of the development and expansion of human presence in nature and space-to humanistic values, to respect for the weak, persecuted, poor and sick, to mutual respect not based on strength, but rooted in humanity, to expanding the rights and opportunities of outcasts.