The Greek pantheon wasn’t known for being just or consistent. And technically, Prometheus didn’t even steal anything. The gods could still make fire as they pleased.
Prometheus pirated fire. And the punishments for piracy are worse than theft.
The fire that Prometheus stole is a metaphor.
Thats the thing about fairytales. They can be told whichever way the teller chooses. That makes them highly subjective and open to interpretation with your interpretation not matching mine and vice versa. It all boils down to belief and we all know how varied that is
Oh, but when I say that Lucifer was a hero for getting humans to eat from the Tree of Knowledge I get called a Satanist!
God didn’t like that Lucifers actions detached humans from the “hunger games” style murder fest called “nature”. They were the main attraction. Nobody gives a shit about naked apes farming shit and singing to each other.
Isn’t Lucifer and Satan two different beings?
Depends on your canon - the Serpent might also have been a different guy.
Zeus feared that with fire, humans would become powerful enough, maybe not to rival the gods, but certainly enough to stop fearing them so much, and to stop relying on them.
Zeus believed (rightly so) that humans who could master fire would undermine his power and control over them. This would be a threat to the stability of his rule over the pantheon.
He wasn’t a loving god, and he never really approved of us to begin with. We were just playthings for the gods, created from the earth, but animated by esssences from the gods (tears, sweat, blood, I dont fully remember) and made in their likeness, with big intellects and free will, but smaller, like dolls.
Then the gods started breeding with the humans and everything went completely to shit.
Moral of the story: don’t fuck your dolls.
Dont let roombas learn how to use machineguns.
Wow! This bears a striking similarity to some apocrypha (idk the plural). Where Nephilim (like Moses or Noah - don’t remember who, but it was the one who was very very old and had many kids with a young woman - was supposed to be one) are mentioned, giants, half-gods. And in order to be wiped off the face of earth, “the one and only” flooded the planet, but Noah built the ark and survived.
For the Greek gods, the greatest sin was attempting to be like them.
Clearly Zeus was mad that Prometheus was… stealing his thunder.
You, get out.
He taught those pesky mortals how to use fire, can you believe it? And the gods didn’t create those mortals to begin with. Add insult to injury I guess.
Holy title gore…
Modern mythology is full of holes and you’re expecting ancient mythology to be better?
