The Greek poet Hesiod shares the history of our species into five successive ages, the age of Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroes, and Iron, we're on borrowed time ...! This division was known in AsiaGo to l'âge d'or but not the age of Heroes, which seems a Greek establishment.

The myth of the successive ages of mankind appears in The Works and Days of Hesiod, immediately after the myth of Pandora. This succession of ages is not progress, but a decline. Hesiod describes the humanities increasingly dwarfs, more and more away from the gods. In the heart of the conflict between men stirs Nemesis Divine Justice and hubris, excess or drunkenness. The decreasing hierarchy of  the Golden AgeGo to L'âge d'or/ Silver AgeGo to L'âge d'argent/ Bronze AgeGo to L'âge de bronze/ Iron AgeGo to Eden 2, le retour is not an invention of Hesiod. His originality is to insert the age of Heroes between the Bronze Age and Iron Age.

This myth is a testament that the gods have left us.Go to Le testament des dieux It is found almost identical on all five continents. It teaches us that there was no one humanity, but five different versions, more and more distant gods and Righteousness Way Fair, Nemesis, increasingly delivered in excess of Drunkenness , Hubris. The first two versions of humanity, the CyclopesGo to Les maîtres de la foudre and the GiantsGo to L'empreinte des géants were created by the Titans. The takeover by Zeus corresponds to the annihilation of mankind money, ie the Biblical Flood.Go to Le grand cataclysme

Let us try to decipher this using the divine method that gave us Plato himself. Go to Phaéton fils du Soleil An imaginary dialogue will allow us to unwrap the baby. Here's the official version, that the Former GodsGo to page seeking to impose on us  (and here in parentheses is the version of men, much less known.) The golden age was a harmony with the gods without rivalry. (That is, the part of men, the most slavish obedience to the whims of supermen who exploit them.) The Nemesis, or the right path, is at its maximum. (That is, men are perfect poodles, the gods have created for that,Go to La beauté de Pandore so the gods are happy)

The Silver Age ended in a final explosion of excessiveness (That is, the intoxication of the courage it took for the men to stand up to their tyrants) when men despise justice of the gods. (That is a total injustice to men, their minions) The hubris, excess, hit men for the first time. (That is, calm down guys, the Gods will eventually get angry!) And when a disaster we fell on his back, the pseudo-godsGo to Usurpateurs made ​​us believe that it came from them.

The Bronze Age is a disproportion war without respect for the divine justice. The men are cut from the gods. (That is, men are freed from tyranny. Carried away by their enthusiasm, they make war among themselves and against the giants, orcs and all the pseudo-men that false godsThe real One is inside. Go to Le Vivant had left behind.) Excess is the norm, much to the misfortune of Men. (That is, we are glad that our tyrants are all gone to hell. So, we made​​ the morons, it's human.)

Finally the Iron age, our present time, is a time where good and evil coexist, a time when men must choose between the right path and excess, with the threat of a victory of the latter. (That is, please stay pending the return of the gods, because they will return soon, you all will have to rush to their service as before, or else!) Sure if the gods tumble as they have threatened us once, and that we are freed, their ready flanked the meal, it would be chaos. But it does seem to be on the agenda.

Some authors believe that Hesiod's account may have been influenced by Persian tradition like. Which itself would have reproduced the Chinese tradition of declining age, and the Shivaic story of Four Yugas.Go to L'âge d'or This view is not realistic. If different traditions relate the same story, isn't it more logical to think it did happen? But our historians have such a distrust of myths and legendsGo to L'histoire d'avant l'histoire that for anything they would agree to absorb it further. Too bad for them, who deprive themselves of many nice surprises.Go to L'or pur des contes

Without wolves, Hood becomes less red, which is unfortunate.