Greek Mythology: The Goddess Born from a Skull

I will tell you my findings in detail. The story of "Pandora" was first narrated by Hesiod in "Theogony", but the girl created in the "Theogony" did not have a name yet. It is worth noting that there are only two gods involved in the creation of Pandora in "Theogony", Hephaestus and Athena, which shows that they are the most important gods in "The Making of Pandora". Then the story of "Made in Pandora" is further told in "Labor and Time", and this is where the narrative trick I mentioned lies. Let's first look at how this matter is described in "Labor and Time". After talking to the Father of God, man burst out laughing. He ordered the illustrious Hephaestus to hurry up Mix soil with water and add human voice And strength makes her seem like an immortal goddess, Like a pitiable beautiful girl; named Athena Teach her various patterns of needlework; The golden Aphrodite poured her charm upon her head, Worrying thoughts and troubles that hurt your bones and muscles; And put in a shameless heart and deceitful habits, He ordered Hermes, the god of Argos, to be killed. When he had spoken, the gods obeyed the son of Cronus. The illustrious lame god immediately created a The appearance of a shy maiden: Such is the will of the son of Cronus; Athena, the bright-eyed goddess, tied her girdle, The goddess of grace and the majestic goddess of enchantment Wear a gold chain around her neck, and on one side The goddess of time braids her hair with spring flowers, Pallas Athena arranged her whole body; The slayer of Argos is in her breast Created lies, clever words, and deceitful habits— Zeus, the god of thunder, willed it; he gave her voice, The messenger of the gods named this woman Pandora, all the gods who lived in Olympus If you give a gift, it will be a disaster for humans who eat grains. What did you find when comparing before and after? First of all, Aphrodite no! See! Got it! Although Zeus summoned her to participate in the creation of Pandora, she actually did not come at all. Not only that, although there are people like Favor, Charm, and Time who dress up Pandora, it is another goddess, Athena, who really "finalizes" her whole body and is really responsible for the beautiful image that the first woman presented to the world! It is consistent with the narrative in "Theogony"! Secondly, among the gods summoned by Zeus and the gods who actually participated in "Pandora's Making", there is only one god. The tasks she was assigned when she was summoned and the tasks she actually performed are completely different in nature. This is also Ya! Code! Na! When Zeus summoned Athena, he asked her to "teach Pandora to weave", but what Athena really did after arriving was to create Pandora's beautiful appearance. In ancient Greece, weaving had special significance for women: it was not only considered to be the most intelligent type of women's work ("The Argonauts" said that the women of Lennos who killed men "cut wheat and wore bronze armor, giving up their previous wise craftsmanship"), had divinity (many philosophers have elaborated on the concept of "sacred weaving women"), and represented virtuous and chaste women (see Penelope rejecting suitors with weaving). After looking at the meaning of weaving, and then looking at the section where Zeus summons the gods, it is not difficult to find that among the tasks assigned to each god, only Athena's task is completely harmless or even beneficial. Other gods, such as Aphrodite's charm, desire and troubles, and Hermes' cunning and shameless, are all harmful to humans. What do you remember when you see this difference? What I'm thinking of is Sleeping Beauty, where the last fairy knows she can't reverse the old fairy's curse, so she can only fight for the last word to make up for the princess's unfortunate fate. Putting all these doubts together, I came up with an idea: Zeus planned to use Pandora to punish the humans of Prometheus. Not only that, he also planned to get blood on Athena's hands. So he pretended to summon the gods to create Pandora, and arranged negative tasks for the other gods, and only arranged positive tasks for Athena (even Athena fought for it herself). In order to make up for the harm done to humans by gods, Athena would of course agree. But when she actually arrived, Zeus had already guaranteed Aphrodite's "absence" in advance, so he used the power to force Athena to take over Aphrodite's task and give the woman beauty so that she could truly cause harm to the world (if she is not beautiful, no matter how cunning and shameless, no one will believe her, and her destructive power will be limited after all). When things came to a close, Athena had no choice but to catch the duck and put it on the shelves. But in the final analysis, she still refused to obey completely, so Zeus had to call in the secondary goddesses such as Grace, Charm, and Timing to complete the task of decorating Pandora that Athena could not (or was unwilling to do).

Author, in your article, I found that Hades and Tartarus are not powerful. This is good. I am almost brainwashed by Mary Suven.

Two souls become one. No wonder the goddess of victory is sometimes regarded as another name for Athena.

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Why is the last postscript locked?

QAQ, it ended without Athena taking revenge. I originally wanted to see her and Zeus fight again. I don't know if there will be any extras…

Damn, why do you need to lock the new article(┯_┯)

Due to the influence of the previous article, I still side with Athena and Hera

Why is the next chapter locked???!!! 😭

I remember the Panathenaic Festival was held in July and August