At the beginning of time, of course, women in Greece have not seen around. The world was run by males in peace, living immersed in the golden age: the earth produced its fruit themselves, a light breeze blew over houses and gardens and to the men that remained was fun at banquets or in the gym …
And there were banquets, at any time of day or night and sometimes, when the food and the table were really high level, these meetings were also invited to the gods. At the dawn of any day, without really anything special, Zeus knocks on the door of Prometheus, a Titan (ie a god of the oldest generations of gods) very powerful and, above all, a bit like a ‘arrogant and boastful.
Zeus wants a part of the banquet just set by Prometheus, the titan wants to take revenge on the family of Zeus which erased any hope of inheriting the throne of God.
Zeus knocks, of course, and asks for a piece of meat; Prometeo with a gentleness that seems a bit ‘mellifluous, but you can tell with hindsight, invited him to join. At that point, while waiting for the meat Zeus promises, Prometheus tries to trick him.
Takes the fat of the animal (bright and fragrant) and covers the bone, then wrapped in the skin, now all dirty and affected by insects, the best meat. So very slowly appears in front of the father of gods and says, “even choose what you want, dear guest … the piece of bread more palatable.” The idea in itself it would not be stupid: Prometheus, the god wants to test and know if it will be able to see beyond the appearance, if it recognizes the hidden meats within the skin a little ‘rotten. And Zeus takes the bait: do not know why not, not because it deceived the Titan, but because he has decided to destroy man and lose it forever.
Slowly, as slow, picks up one of the shells and bones and fat, while discarding, you draw a smile on the face of disturbing the divine: the golden age is over and the weather begins to fatigue and pain.
First subtract fire to the people and condemns them to darkness and cold of the night. When the Titan responds to this gesture by climbing Mount Olympus to the mortals and bringing a flame inside a tube of bamboo. Zeus unleashed, literally, hell and punishes with death the most terrible of tragedies … and yes, it’s easy to guess: it is the right woman.
Gather the seed of the gods and everyone receives a wonderful gift: a spell that will make this new creature is absolutely irresistible. The Graces, the Hours, Aphrodite … all rush to contribute to the emergence of perfection: a being that possesses a body of a beauty almost intolerable.
But the heart is like that of a dog, mind capacity of deception. And, even more terrible threat, the center of this new being is concealed the source of all evil: the belly, a sort of cave empty, hostile abyss from which they emanate and evolve hunger, misery and despair. The woman is beautiful, seductive, enchanting, but inside lurks the ability to produce life, and also, simultaneously, to spray the substance of men to empty granaries, larders, treasures to devour …
With exquisite irony, Zeus punishes men by sending them a perfect consideration for the clumsy initial deception: something desirable exterior that hides a heart useless and empty. The fat and bone, the beauty of the woman and her belly eater.
And ‘Pandora was born, she offered that all have a gift. When Pandora enters the home and men, driven by the typical feminine curiosity, opens a huge jar, sealed, to which she was forbidden to approach, from the bottom of the ogre out all the ills of the world, as the winds in flight. It’s the end of the world: the end of the days when gods and humans were sitting at the same table and shared the same horizon.
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