Prometheus
("he who thinks first")
Titan and
creator of mankind, son of the Titan
Laepethus and Oceanus daughter
Clymene or Themis.
His brother was Epimetheus (=afterthought), and together they had the task
to create the human beings and give them what they would need to survive.
Prometheus made the humans out of clay and stole the fire from Zeus
and brought it to them. He also gave them the best part of the sacrifice,
wich upset the gods so much that he was tied to a rock in Caucasus, the edge
of he world, where an eagle came to pick his liver each day. He was finally
saved by Heracles.
Zeus was also angered at the humans, and to punish them he gave them Pandora
- the first woman. Prometheus tried to save the humans, but they had
become so depraved that Zeus sent a flood to drown them all.
Only Prometheus good son Deuchalion
made it since he told him to make an ark.
