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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 41, March 2022

Pandora was very surprised and curious and asked
Hermes: "what is it? Why shouldn’t I open it? " Hermes
raised his shoulders and on the face of a malicious smile
and he told her that he knows nothing, then, he sighed and
walked. Pandora kept looking at the jar, with great
astonishment, and she did not understand, so if a gift is
sent to her, why not open it? Pandora tried very hard to
abide by Zeus' orders not to open the jar until her curiosity
made her open it... Suddenly there were faint, terrifying
sounds and a horrible smell, and it took a few seconds
until Pandora realized what had come out of the jar and
quickly closed it again.
As for human punishment, it was of a different kind. Zeus
summoned the god of fire and the blacksmith Hephaestus
and commanded him to create a creature from sand and
water that looks exactly like a human but it has to be much
prettier. Hephaestus created this creature in the same
shape as the goddess of beauty and love. When
Hephaestus presented the new creature to the gods, they
were astonished by it, and Zeus called each one of them to
give her a gift. Aphrodite gave her beauty and desire,
Athena gave her wit and sleight of hand (meaning her
ability to weave, not steal), Hermes gave her sweet-
speaking, Apollo gifted her tenderness and sweet voice,
Zeus gifted nature playfulness, and finally, Hera gifted her
curiosity.
After they bestowed upon her all these gifts, the gods
named this beautiful creature “Pandora” meaning the one
who gives gifts.

Out of her curiosity, Pandora released death, hate, violence,
deceit, disease, and all the evils that exist on earth until
now, and unfortunately, when she came to close the jar, she
locked it on the only sweet need that was locked up with
them: hope.
Thus, Zeus remains destined to grieve all human beings
forever, as he did with Prometheus.
The truth is that Zeus' punishment for humans is smarter
than it seems.
As we said, Zeus was very simply capable of spreading
evils on the earth himself, but he preferred to send a more
beautiful and attractive human version that would be the
reason for unleashing these evils in order to ignite the
Zeus took Pandora from her hand and lowered her to the conflict between the two versions or the two types: male
earth, presenting her as a wife to Epimetheus, the brother
of Prometheus. Despite his brother's earlier warnings not and female. Therefore, instead of the person blaming Zeus
for the unjust punishment that has no sin in him, he blames
to accept gifts from the gods, Epimetheus was blinded by
the prettiness of Pandora and agreed to marry her. On their Pandora.. and thus Zeus punished the human being without
losing his loyalty because he played the role of the good
wedding day, Zeus sent Hermes with a very strange gift.
Hermes went to Pandora with a closed jar in his hand and person in the story who warned Pandora not to open the
box despite making sure that she would open it out of
said to her: "Congratulations, bride! Zeus is giving you
this sweet gift and he tells you to never open it." curiosity she is made of.
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