Hello Everyone!!
Welcome to the blog in which I write about mythology stories, I will start with my favorite ones and then work my way to ones that I have never learned/heard about before. Please correct me if you see anything wrong or have heard a different side and/or version of the story. If you want to submit a story please do, I also have my asks open so feel free. I will also always try to cite my sources for the stories.
My love of mythology was sparked by the Percy Jackson books in elementary, and then nurtured by my dad’s teaching job, a high school English teacher who also teaches mythology. I remember one day in middle school, I got sick and Dad had to walk over to the middle school and take me to the HS to wait until he could take me home. That day in his Mythology class, they were going over Greek creation of man. I remember that story the way he told it, the class laughed, and I was so determined from that day on to take his mythology class. Later in high school, I did manage to take the class as an independent study, and focused one of my concurrent enrollment English classes on mythology.
This is the story as I remember it, but I did find a textbook with the story, so there will be a citation at the end.
After the fall of the Titan age the Gods (their children) ruled, but they had some Titan allies, like Prometheus and his brother Epimethius, or as my dad referred to them as forethought and afterthought. The creation of creatures, according to one version, was delegated to the two brothers. Prometheus was known to be exceedingly wise, his brother was known to be scattered brained, and only thought about things afterwards, like his name meaning implies. The two were given a “box” of gifts to give to the creations, and so off he went creating the animals. He gave a shell to the turtles, long necks to the giraffes, and flight to birds, and so on. When he got to man there was nothing left. So, he had to turn to his brother for help, and Prometheus crafted man in the shape of the gods, upright. He also stole fire for mankind, which is a better protection than anything that could have been given, by far.
This is one version of the creation of man in the Greek mythology, this one can be found in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. MLA citation: Hamilton, Edith. Mythology. Back Bay Books, 2013.
Stay tuned for the next version