In the Greek mythology, it was a Titan, Zeus' nephew, who created man.Go to page Like in the Bible, he created a single man. The woman came later,Go to la beauté de Pandore and she was the work of Zeus himself.

On the desert Earth a Titan was upset. «The sky was reflected in the waters and the waters were filled with fishes. Herds were grazing in the meadows.

But who did look after the herds, who did catch the fishes, who did listen to birdsongs? Nobody. On Earth, there was no man. Prometheus, from the sacred family of Titans, Prometheus the nephew of Zeus was wandering sadly and looking in vain for living beings, walking upright like him and whose face would be similar to his.What a joke! Faces similar to his, he had all the holy family of Titans. Adam was not a "company man" for god aimless, but a "handyman". See Adam saga But he saw the clay, from which were springing grass, plants and trees; he also saw the heavy rains falling on earth.

Rainwater was making nature live, without it trees and bushes died, giving way to desert. Prometheus discovered the power of earth and water, so he mixed clay with water, moulding the shape of the first man. It was the shape of gods. Athena, goddess of wisdom, blew a soul in the lifeless form: the gray clayNote the ubiquity of the clay in the myths concerning creation of mankind. Go to page  got pink, a heart began to beat, and arms and legs, still motionless, began to move. That is how Prometheus created the first man.

For a long time, the men did not know what to do with their soul, gift of Athena. They were living like little children. They saw but did not recognize, they could hear but did not understand, they were walking on Earth  as in a dream.See La puissance du Rêve  They could neither bake bricks, nor chop wood, nor build houses. Similar to ants, they were swarming on and under the earth, hiding in the caves' dark recesses. They didn't even know than summer succeeded to spring, and that autumn followed summer." (source)Eaque, MythesGrecs.com

It is hard to imagine though such an ignorance. Even the animals can anticipate the round of seasons. If men of that time did not know it yet, that was because the seasons had just appeared,Find what did the Emperor Yao after the flood, go to YHVH  following the cataclysmGo to Le grand cataclysme which tilted the EarthGo to Mondes en collision big cataclysm   as we will see below. "Prometheus then descended among men and taught them to erect houses, to read, write, count and to understand nature.On the sudden appearance of agriculture, click the + button

He showed them how to hitch up animals to carts in order not to carry heavy burdens on their back. He taught them the art of building boats, explaining them how the sails helped the rower in its task. He led them to the depths of Earth, in search of hidden treasures. The hard work of miners lifted from the earth's bowels iron, copper, silver and gold. »  (source)Eaque, MythesGrecs.com. Click links. Let's note in this connection that QuetzalcoatlSee Les plumes du serpentViracocha,See Le christ des Andes and had exactly the same behaviour.

Why such a similarity between the civilizing gods of Precolumbian America and Prometheus? How could it be the same people, right through the world? So it would seem that around the world, cultivated men and scientists,Atlanteans, Elohim, Quetzalcoatl, Viracocha, Manu, Enki… survivors of the Flood,See Sauvés des eaux have taught their multiple knowledgesSee Le christ des Andes  to other men, who turned wild again.See L'effet Mad Max  Our author continues a story of the myth that confirms this view.

« Before this era, men did not know medicine, they could not make a difference between what did good to them and what did hurt them; so Prometheus showed them how to prepare ointments and medicines. He taught all the arts to astonished men who learned all of them eagerly. » (source)Eaque, MythesGrecs.com.

These last words are eloquent, mythologists often meet them in the five continents' legendary corpus.

The myth of Prometheus is as universal as that of the Flood. In America, he is Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan or Viracocha. In India, his name is Manu.Voir Le Noé hindou In the Genesis they are the Elohim, and in the Book of Enoch, the Watchmen.Voir Veilleurs d'étoiles The Assyrian tabletsSee page called him Enki. In any case, he is our creator, and he mostly uses clay.Was it to catalyze genetic manipulation? See page His name refers not to a single person, but to a group of people. He brings culture, science and civilization. He advocates pacifism and generosity.

And he has the same nature as us, with some extra powers, that he omitted to give us...

Ages have past by. The men of the Bronze RaceSee page came, who forsook gods and practised war. Zeus decided to exterminate them and provoked a flood, which spared only two fair people, Deucalion, Prometheus' son, and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. It rained for nine days and nine nights: from drowned Earth only emerged Mount Parnassus.Mountains of Greece, 2457 meters, which became home of the Muses and the paradise of poets, hence the name of the Montparnasse district in Paris.The gods, foresight, had all fled from the highest peaks. See page When Zeus ordered to the waters to withdraw, Deucalion and Pyrrha were alone in their boat on the desert Earth.

A voice occured, ordering them to throw over their shoulders their mothers' bones. First frightened by such an impiety, they understood then that they were stones, which were the bones of the Earth, universal mother.See Pieds nus sur la terre sacrée The stones thrown by Deucalion became men, those thrown by Pyrrha became women. The Earth got repopulated by the ancestors of the Greek peoples, Dorian and Eolian races, the Achaeans and the Ionians. The mythology joins the history.See page

Olympians could finally reign over the world. Three of them shared the universe together by drawing lots. ZeusSee page won the sky, Poseidon the sea, and Hades the underworld. Zeus and his court stayed in Olympos where they were perfectly happy, alternating banquets and parties, drinking nectar and ambrosia in the sound of Apollo's lyra. Olympus is a Greek mountain which has no particularity but its great altitude. But with the reign of Zeus, it became a divine residence, guarded by the Seasons.

What are the SeasonsSee page doing here? Before the first flood, when the Earth was wedged in the ecliptic plan,See page they were no season: in our latitudes, there was an eternal spring. With Zeus began the world as we know it, with the year marked by the four seasons. That is why the mythical story makes the Seasons Olympus' guardians. And that is also why men did not know that novelty yet, which Prometheus had to teach them.See page

The eternal spring was gone, like the abundant harvests, and shortage came back each winter. Suddenly started, in different parts of the world, and on a large scale, the  Bronze Age's agriculture.Click +  So nothing is free in the story of a myth. No detail is meaningless. Just as the ancient poet said that Olympus was guarded by the Seasons, so that one day another poet takes the ball. Bravo, noble visitor, your faith is saving you every time.

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