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Pandora Deity Guide

Either in Mythological context or otherwise, it’s likely that you’ve heard her name before. She was considered by Hesiod to be the first human woman. While not technically a deity, someone mentioned her in my deity suggestions post and I thought she was definitely worth a deep dive!

Who is Pandora?

Beginning as an idea from Zeus and made into reality by Hephaestus, Pandora was the first human woman on earth according to her mythology.

Pandora was a plan of revenge come to life, a punishment. Zeus was angry that Prometheus had given humans fire and had Hephaestus created Pandora from clay/earth, each god then gave her a gift. They made her beautiful, irresistibly so, to both men and gods. However, they also made her cunning.

Her name, Pandora, literally translates to “all gifts” which eludes to this story.

Zeus had Pandora sent to Prometheus’ younger brother, Epimetheus, who took her as his bride. Pandora was given a jar (pithos) as a wedding present and told not to open it. Of course, curiosity got the best of her and she opened it, releasing countless plagues and misfortunes upon Prometheus’ humans.

Parents and Siblings

None

Lovers or Partners

Epimetheus

Children

Pyrrha (though some say that Pyrrha and her husband are Pandora's mother and father)

Epithets

Anesidora (Sender of gifts or she who sends gifts)

Notes

Some say that Hesiod’s Interpretation of the story of Pandora would later influence Christian and Jewish theology.

Though in antiquity the vessel given to Pandora is a jar, a later misinterpretation or mistranslation turns it into a box.

Her name can also mean “All-giving” rather than “all-gifted” eluding to Pandora actually being an earth or a mother goddess.

Some folks think that Pandora was a completely unrelated earth or mother goddess that either got developed into the Pandora we know today—as it wasn’t uncommon for smaller or lesser known deities to be absorbed into the Greek pantheon—or a goddess who just happened to also be named Pandora.

In most retellings of the story, Pandora didn’t open the box with malice, but out of curiosity. The curiosity itself being a gift from the gods.

In some tradition, Pandora was given a jar of only blessings for mankind which was opened by a foolish man rather than Pandora, causing almost all of these blessings to be lost forever.

Some say that Epimetheus and Pandora’s roles were reversed in older myths.

Anesidora is also an epithet given to Demeter and Gaia, possibly hinting to Pandora’s Earth goddess origins.

Some believe that she may be Rhea.

Modern Deity Work

Since Pandora is possibly an earth goddess, you could associate her with items similar to other earth goddess such as Gaia or other earth goddesses.

Since there isn't much record of any worship of Pandora, these are items and activities that I personally think you could do to honor her.

Offerings

Potted plants

Handmade pottery

Decorative pithos

Acts of Devotion

Gardening or taking care of house plants

Cleaning up the earth or being more eco-friendly

Go on nature walks

Tell her how beautiful the nature around you is

Advocating for feminist movements

Symbol

Jar (Pithos)

References and Further Reading

Pandora - Theoi Project

Pandora - GreekMythology.com

Pandora - World History

Pandora - Religion Wiki

The Goddess Pandora - holladaypaganism

#Pandora #Pandora deity guide #deity deep dive #deity guide #witchcraft #learning witchcraft

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deathlessathanasia · 1 year

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“In mainstream Greek myth, Okeanos is conceived of as a freshwater stream surrounding the whole of the earth, and the source of all streams and rivers as well as the sea. (Hes. Th. 337-70; Il. 21.1957, 18.607-8). The sun and the stars, the thirsty Bear excepted, rise and set in the bath of Okeanos (Il. 7.422, 8.485, 18.240; Od. 5.275, 19.434, 23.244, 347, etc.); the idea of the sun returning to the east in Okeanos' stream during the night is also early (Eumel. fr. 10 West, Mimn. fr. 12, Stesich. PMGF 185). Hesiod (Th. 133-6) makes Okeanos and Tethys ordinary Titans, children of Ouranos and Gaia. As mentioned above, however, an intriguing line in the Iliad (1+201 = 302) suggests an alternative theogony, according to which Okeanos and Tethys were the original parents; . . . The notion of the primeval 'waters comes to Greece ultimately from Mesopotamia. At the very beginning of the Babylonian epic Enūma Eliš, Apsu (fresh water) unites with Tiamat (the sea) to produce Anu (Sky) and Ea (Earth). The idea is found also in Genesis 1, where God separates the waters as the first step in creation, and in all versions of the creation story throughout the Near East and in Hesiod, 'the first separation [is] anthropomorphized as a quarrel . . . between either Sky and Earth, or the aquatic parents of Sky and Earth' (Janko, on Il. 14.200-7). "Tethys name could even be derived from that of Tiamat, and a Semitic derivation has also been suggested for Okeanos;" that Pherekydes of Syros calls him Ogenos also suggests that the name is a loan-word. We have seen that an Orphic theogony reflected in Plato's Timaios puts Okeanos and Tethys in their own generation after Ouranos and Ge, as parents of the Titans; and at Krat. 402b Plato quotes an Orphic couplet (fr. 15) in which Okeanos and Tethys were 'first to marry', a notion which must also reflect their status as alternatives to Ouranos and Ge. . . .

The children of Okeanos mentioned in our corpus are mostly daughters: Hesione, wife of Prometheus and mother of Deukalion (Akous. fr. 34); Europe and Thraike, daughters of Okeanos by Parthenope, and Asia and Libye, daughters by Pompholyge (Andron fr. 7); Styx (Epimen. fr. 7); Seirenes by Ge (Epimen. fr. 8, suppl.); Rhodos (Epimen. fr. 11); Ephyra wife of Epimetheus (Eumel. fr. 1); Perseis (Hek. fr. 35A); Daeira, sister of Styx (Pher. fr. 45); Philyra, mother of Cheiron (Pher. fr. 50); Peitho, wife of Argos (Pher. fr. 66); Aithra, wife of Atlas (Pher. fr. 9). Of sons, we hear of Triptolemos, son by Ge (Pher. fr. 53); possibly also the text of Apollodoros should be emended so that Asopos is a son of Okeanos in Akous. fr. 21. In Archaic poetry rivers are sons of Okeanos, springs are daughters. The names of the latter therefore often suggest qualities associated with water; however, because they are kourotrophoi (Th. 347), their names sometimes connote wealth, bounty, or desirable moral and intellectual qualities: e.g. Plouto, Tyche, Idyia, Metis, Melobosis, Peitho (if not rather an erotic association), Eurynome. Their generally benevolent and sympathetic nature is on display in the Prometheus Bound, whose chorus they form, and in vase painting where they are companions of Persephone at her unfortunate abduction.”

- Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary by Robert Louis Fowler

#okeanos #tethys #river gods #potamoi #okeanids #okeanides #theogony #cosmogony #excerpts #quotes

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rgraves1 · 1 year

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The Great Flood by Peeters the Elder (17th century). Source: Greek Legends and Myths website

Deucalion’s Flood

ON HIS return to Olympus, Zeus in disgust let loose a great flood on the earth, meaning to wipe out the whole race of men; but Deucalion, king of Phthia, warned by his father Prometheus the Titan, whom he had visited in the Caucasus, built an ark, victualled it, and went aboard with his wife Pyrrha, a daughter of Epimetheus. Then the South Wind blew, the rain fell, and the rivers roared down to the sea which, rising with astonishing speed, washed away every city of the coast and plain; until the entire world was flooded, but for a few mountain peaks, and all mortal creatures seemed to have been lost, except for Deucalion and Pyrrha. (Deucalion’s Flood, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves, pp 138-143).

Zeus’ fury had been aroused by Lycaon, King of Arcadia and his sons, who insisted on sacrificing young boys to the King of Heaven and eating them in a soup also consisting of animal innards, despite Zeus himself finding the practice abhorrent. Deucalion’s ark eventually alighted on the peak of Mount Parnassus and as the floodwaters subsided, he and his wife emerged and begged Zeus that mankind be renewed. Zeus sent Hermes to assure the couple that whatever they wished would be granted. Themis the Titaness then appeared and told Deucalion and Pyrrha to ‘throw your mother’s bones behind you’ which the mortals wisely interpreted as a reference to Mother Earth, as their own mothers were deceased. Deucalion and Pyrrah therefore picked up rocks from the earth and threw them over their shoulders: the rocks miraculously became men and women depending on whether the king or queen had thrown them.

This story is very similar to the Biblical story of Noah. Graves suggests that both legends have a Babylonian ancestry, and refer to an actual flooding of the Mesopotamian plain in the third milennium BC.

#greek mythology #robert graves #Deucalion’s flood

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we-eternal-rp · 2 years

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— ☄ EURYALE ! aka. valentina ignacio, 27, (renata notni) is looking for her ex long-term boyfriend.

this was a stable and happy relationship except for one thing ... valentina is always getting cold feet; in locations, in romance, in life, never wanting to settle in one place or feel locked down. the trouble was they both loved each other and desperately wanted it to work, no matter how many times they broke up ... they always came back together. they were dating, whirlwind on-and-off, for a little over two years, but by then it just wasn’t working anymore and the relationship broke down. she would have moved to either the island or back to the mainland, wherever he wasn’t, and she would have avoided him for a good few months, and the break-up is around three years ago at this time. she has been back and forth between the two locations for about six years in total. val hasn’t dated anyone seriously since then, and they would have gone back to each other for a night or a week ... brief little flings, nothing more, but that always ended with them both separate and sorrowful when they go back to the real world. there is still a lot of feelings and attraction there, it’s very magnetic and hard to ignore; though they speak and are on at least civil to friendly terms at this point, they avoid being alone together to avoid crossing the line (again) ... especially if/when either of them have another partner. it’s never a good idea; old habits die hard and all that.

suggested fcs: corbin bleu, garrett hedlund, max irons, lewis tan, ali öner, darren criss, jesse williams, liam hemsworth, chris hemsworth, luke pasqualino

key connection details.

disallowed fcs: penn badgely, any FC under the age specified

suggested/requested ethnicity: —

deity suggestions: kratos, cocytus, hypnos, heracles, eosphorus, poseidon, pyriphlegethon, aelos, zeus, hades, zelos, menoetius, epimetheus, helios, lelantus, perses, asclepius

gender preference: AMAB

wc name: UTP

wc age: 30 - 45

key features: —

how long have they known each other?: six years, minimum of five

where did they meet?: on magnetic island, or potentially on the mainland of queensland, they could have met before val came to magnetic island six years ago but we’d need to plot that!

connection description.

canon details this wc would know about valentina: her nickname is ‘val’, she has a pet corn snake called ‘salazar’, she is a harry potter nerd, she doesn’t speak with her family and grew up in an all-male household (it’s a touchy subject, so we’d have to plot the exact details she may have shared) and is from mexico, she studied in fashion and fine arts on a student visa and then applied for citizenship to australia, she drives and owns a motorbike. everything else and more is in her intro post!

hc’s for this wc: [potential themes; cheating, slight age gap] they started seeing each other when val was either 21 (six years ago) or 22 (five years ago), unless we plot otherwise, and they were on and off together for about two years, which puts the breakup around three years ago at this point. i’d prefer if he was a few years her senior, and not someone who is immature or childish, after the breakup they have slept together several times and they have likely had a regrettable hook-up whilst one of them, or both, were entertaining another person, whether it was actually cheating would depend on the plotting. they broke up and got back together a fair few times, they may have lived together and val would have been the one who moved out. the only solid issue i can say they had was that val is very hard to pin down and has commitment issues, so that may have created tension and concerns and was a great part of why the relationship actually ended.

do you require the applicant to contact you before applying?: no, i don’t think so, but you’re welcome to if you have any questions; via my blog @ imeuryale or on discord trashpanda#4235.

#wanted connection!#corbin bleu fc #max irons fc #lewis tan fc #darren criss fc #jesse williams fc #liam hemsworth fc #chris hemsworth fc

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ancientgreeksuggestions · 6 years

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what is in this amphora is absolutely SHOCKING!!! open it and FIND OUT!!

#ancient greek suggestions #clickbait #pandora #epimetheus #olympians #first woman #pandora's box #it was an amphora tho #they didn't have boxes #i think #she was the first human woman #so probably not #queue

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icryyoumercy · 6 years

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what do i call my shiny new laptop?

the last one was called magneto, my ipod is called amadeus, and my phone’s name is eliza day, so it’s not like there’s a coherent system, but still

ideas?

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xie-solarin · 3 years

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Ok hear me out... Pandora’s Vault

That green boi is not homeless anymore... Now his home is the Prison aka Pandora’s vault

Yes, Pandora’s box contained every Evilness in it. But It also contain something else... Hope. Here’s an extract from wikipedia page about the myth:

According to Hesiod, when Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus, the king of the gods, took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus. Pandora opened a jar left in her care containing sickness, death and many other unspecified evils which were then released into the world.

Though she hastened to close the container, only one thing was left behind – usually translated as Hope, though it could also have the pessimistic meaning of "deceptive expectation".

So... Who, or What excatly means Hope in the Dream SMP?

Many things. For each one of the members hope means a different thing. But, we can all agree that maybe the thing that could posibly unite all of them is the hope of bring back the loved ones that are dead.

But what if Dream refuses to give the information that could bring people back?

Then what? They would not kill him... Even if he is worse than death, permadeath will be a thing at the first death, so that’s not an option. Maybe, Dream is the deceptive expectation inside Pandora’s Vault.

Maybe, we need to expect another prisioner. Because now, the whole server knows the prison is a thing. And many will try to get revenge over past things trying to get the ones that they despise prisioners...

I migth be overthinking this, because actually Pandora’s Vault was a name chat suggested, so it migth have no impact whatsoever in the story... idk

#pandora's vault #dream smp #awesamdude #dreamwastaken #tommyinnit #tubbo

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kedreeva · 3 years

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what name would you suggest for a male turkey if the hen's name is pandora? (you don't have to answer, i just figured i would ask because all your peafowl have really cool names!)

my immediate answer is Box, but Hope would work too. Titan or Prometheus would work, or Pandora was created to be given to Prometheus’ brother, Epimetheus, but that’s a mouthful. Titan would probably work best, and would fit well since tom turkeys are generally quite large.

#asks #turkeys #anon asks #Anonymous

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ghostoffandompast · 3 years

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Theory of Pandora’s Vault -DREAM SMP 3/1/21 SPOILERS

Let’s talk about the events of the most recent streams and how they relate to Greek mythology, shall we?

So, Tommy lost his final life to Dream in Pandora’s Vault. After going through the shock and grief as everyone else has, I got to thinking. Why there? Why like this? While thinking about what had happened, I thought about the cell itself.

Pandora’s Vault.

A strange name to call the most highly secure prison cell, after the story of a girl who unleashed horrors unto the world.

But it’s not a strange name if you think about the entirety of the myth. Inside were all of the world’s evil. And hope. When Pandora opened the box, the misery was unleashed while hope stayed inside.

Now who do these two roles remind you of?

Dream is the world’s evil, and Tommy is hope. In the matter of the story, to prevent hope from leaving, he died in there, preventing from ever getting out.

What this implies, if it were to follow the myth, is that the evil escapes. But if that is the case, who is our Pandora? Who would open up the vault out of undying curiosity, just like in the myth?

No one else but Tubbo.

Tubbo, who refuses to believe that his best friend is dead, who is heavily in denial and thinks everyone is lying about Tommy being gone. (Though Tubbo also admitted to being too tired to be in character but shhh lets ignore that for now)

Everyone saw how Tubbo tried to enter the prison after Sam broke the news. He wanted to see for himself. He would not believe that this is how Tommy would die. Not unless he saw it.

And so, Tubbo would enter Pandora’s Vault, too curious for his own good, and unleash Dream and all his evil onto the server. Just like Pandora.

(And if Dream is the misery, I fear what he will do to Tubbo and everyone in his wake.)

BONUS:

My friends who I told the theory to when I first came up with it had their own additions (I’ll refer to them as their initials, N and M).

N suggested that if hope doesn’t leave, perhaps this means that if Tommy comes back as a ghost, he cannot escape the prison cell. He’s bound to it.

M goes deeper into the Pandora myth with her husband and the warnings of messing with gifts from the gods (all from me joking around that if Pandora is Tubbo, then her husband Epimetheus must be Ranboo since they’re platonically married). M explains to me how Epimetheus knew to never trust a gift from the gods (in this case, Pandora and the box) but had forgotten (sound like a certain enderboy we know?).The gods knew that Pandora would unleash the evils. And the closest thing to a god on the SMP is Dream XD. In this case, Dream (who called himself a god in his last conversation with Tommy which sounded self obsessed at the time but may actually be realistic) is pulling the strings yet again from the outside, plotting his own escape in the most twisted of ways.

(I’m actually really proud of this theory. Others most likely have also picked up on things I have noticed, seeing as if you know your mythology, it can jump right out at you. I have no clue how far the writers have planned ahead, if any of this ‘foreshadowing’ I’m analyzing is even intentional, but I cannot wait to see how everything plays out. And it would be so cool to actually see Tubbo be the one to release Dream. And I hope nothing more that Tommy’s story isn’t over yet. If you have anything to add to this theory, please do! I’d love to see what others think!)

#dream smp #dreamwastaken #dsmp tommy #dsmp dream #tommyinnit #dsmp tubbo #c!tubbo #c!tommy #c!dream #c!ranboo #c!awesamdude #ranboo #pandora's vault #wilbur soot #dsmp

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naidadiamandis · 3 years

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Cronus

Not to be confused with

Chronos

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Cronus (disambiguation)

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In Greek mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (/ˈkroʊnəs/ or /ˈkroʊnɒs/, US: /-oʊs/, from Greek: Κρόνος, Krónoς) was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus. According to Plato, however, the deities Phorcys, Cronus, and Rhea were the eldest children of Oceanus and Tethys.[2]

Cronus was usually depicted with a harpe, scythe or a sickle, which was the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a patron of the harvest. Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn.

In an ancient myth recorded by Hesiod's Theogony, Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of the universe, Uranus. Uranus drew the enmity of Cronus's mother, Gaia, when he hid the gigantic youngest children of Gaia, the hundred-handed Hecatoncheires and one-eyed Cyclopes, in Tartarus, so that they would not see the light. Gaia created a great stone sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to persuade them to castrate Uranus.[3]

Giorgio Vasari

: The Mutilation of Uranus by Saturn (Cronus)

Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and placed him in ambush.[4] When Uranus met with Gaia, Cronus attacked him with the sickle, castrating him and casting his testicles into the sea. From the blood that spilled out from Uranus and fell upon the earth, the Gigantes, Erinyes, and Meliae were produced. The testicles produced a white foam from which the goddess Aphrodite emerged. For this, Uranus threatened vengeance and called his sons Titenes[a] for overstepping their boundaries and daring to commit such an act.[b]

After dispatching Uranus, Cronus re-imprisoned the Hecatoncheires and the Cyclopes and set the dragon Campe to guard them. He and his older sister Rhea took the throne of the world as king and queen. The period in which Cronus ruled was called the Golden Age, as the people of the time had no need for laws or rules; everyone did the right thing, and immorality was absent.

Painting by

Peter Paul Rubens

of Cronus devouring one of his children

Cronus learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own sons, just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired the gods Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades and Poseidon by Rhea, he devoured them all as soon as they were born to prevent the prophecy. When the sixth child, Zeus, was born, Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save them and to eventually get retribution on Cronus for his acts against his father and children.

Rhea secretly gave birth to Zeus in Crete, and handed Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, also known as the Omphalos Stone, which he promptly swallowed, thinking that it was his son.

Rhea kept Zeus hidden in a cave on Mount Ida, Crete. According to some versions of the story, he was then raised by a goat named Amalthea, while a company of Kouretes, armored male dancers, shouted and clapped their hands to make enough noise to mask the baby's cries from Cronus. Other versions of the myth have Zeus raised by the nymph Adamanthea, who hid Zeus by dangling him by a rope from a tree so that he was suspended between the earth, the sea, and the sky, all of which were ruled by his father, Cronus. Still other versions of the tale say that Zeus was raised by his grandmother, Gaia.

Once he had grown up, Zeus used an emetic given to him by Gaia to force Cronus to disgorge the contents of his stomach in reverse order: first the stone, which was set down at Pytho under the glens of Mount Parnassus to be a sign to mortal men, and then his two brothers and three sisters. In other versions of the tale, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the children.[5]

After freeing his siblings, Zeus released the Hecatoncheires, and the Cyclopes who forged for him his thunderbolts, Poseidon's trident and Hades' helmet of darkness. In a vast war called the Titanomachy, Zeus and his older brothers and older sisters, with the help of the Hecatoncheires and Cyclopes, overthrew Cronus and the other Titans. Afterwards, many of the Titans were confined in Tartarus. However, Oceanus, Helios, Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius were not imprisoned following the Titanomachy. Gaia bore the monster Typhon to claim revenge for the imprisoned Titans.

Accounts of the fate of Cronus after the Titanomachy differ. In Homeric and other texts he is imprisoned with the other Titans in Tartarus. In Orphic poems, he is imprisoned for eternity in the cave of Nyx. Pindar describes his release from Tartarus, where he is made King of Elysium by Zeus. In another version,[citation needed] the Titans released the Cyclopes from Tartarus, and Cronus was awarded the kingship among them, beginning a Golden Age. In Virgil's Aeneid,[6] it is Latium to which Saturn (Cronus) escapes and ascends as king and lawgiver, following his defeat by his son Jupiter (Zeus).

In yet another account referred to by Robert Graves,[7] (who claims to be following the account of the Byzantine mythographer Tzetzes) it is said that Cronus was castrated by his son Zeus just as Uranus had earlier been castrated by his son Cronos. However the subject of a son castrating his own father, or simply castration in general, was so repudiated by the Greek mythographers of that time that they suppressed it from their accounts until the Christian era (when Tzetzes wrote).

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In a Libyan account related by Diodorus Siculus (Book 3), Uranus and Titaea were the parents of Cronus and Rhea and the other Titans. Ammon, a king of Libya, married Rhea (3.18.1). However, Rhea abandoned Ammon and married her younger brother Cronus. With Rhea's incitement, Cronus and the other Titans made war upon Ammon, who fled to Crete (3.71.1-2). Cronus ruled harshly and Cronus in turn was defeated by Ammon's son Dionysus (3.71.3-3.73) who appointed Cronus' and Rhea's son, Zeus, as king of Egypt (3.73.4). Dionysus and Zeus then joined their forces to defeat the remaining Titans in Crete, and on the death of Dionysus, Zeus inherited all the kingdoms, becoming lord of the world (3.73.7-8).

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Cronus is mentioned in the Sibylline Oracles, particularly in book three, which makes Cronus, 'Titan' and Iapetus, the three sons of Uranus and Gaia, each to receive a third division of the Earth, and Cronus is made king over all. After the death of Uranus, Titan's sons attempt to destroy Cronus's and Rhea's male offspring as soon as they are born, but at Dodona, Rhea secretly bears her sons Zeus, Poseidon and Hades and sends them to Phrygia to be raised in the care of three Cretans. Upon learning this, sixty of Titan's men then imprison Cronus and Rhea, causing the sons of Cronus to declare and fight the first of all wars against them. This account mentions nothing about Cronus either killing his father or attempting to kill any of his children.

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Cronus was said to be the father of the wise centaur Chiron by the Oceanid Philyra, who was subsequently transformed into a linden tree.[8][9][10] The Titan chased the nymph and consorted with her in the shape of a stallion, hence the half-human, half-equine shape of their offspring;[11][12] this was said to have taken place on Mount Pelion.[13]

Two other sons of Cronus and Philyra may have been Dolops[14] and Aphrus, the ancestor and eponym of the Aphroi, i.e. the native Africans.[15]

In some accounts, Cronus was also called the father of the Corybantes.[16]

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During antiquity, Cronus was occasionally interpreted as Chronos, the personification of time.[17] The Roman philosopher Cicero (1st century BCE) elaborated on this by saying that the Greek name Cronus is synonymous to chronos (time) since he maintains the course and cycles of seasons and the periods of time, whereas the Latin name Saturn denotes that he is saturated with years since he was devouring his sons, which implies that time devours the ages and gorges.[18]

The Greek historian and biographer Plutarch (1st century CE) asserted that the Greeks believed that Cronus was an allegorical name for χρόνος (time).[19] The philosopher Plato (3rd century BCE) in his Cratylus gives two possible interpretations for the name of Cronus. The first is that his name denotes "κόρος" (koros), the pure (καθαρόν) and unblemished (ἀκήρατον)[20] nature of his mind.[21] The second is that Rhea and Cronus were given names of streams (Rhea – ῥοή (rhoē) and Cronus – Xρόνος (chronos)).[22] Proclus (5th century CE), the Neoplatonist philosopher, makes in his Commentary on Plato's Cratylus an extensive analysis on Cronus; among others he says that the "One cause" of all things is "Chronos" (time) that is also equivocal to Cronus.[23]

Chronos and his child

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

National Museum

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, a 17th-century depiction of Titan Cronus as "Father Time," wielding a harvesting scythe

In addition to the name, the story of Cronus eating his children was also interpreted as an allegory to a specific aspect of time held within Cronus' sphere of influence. As the theory went, Cronus represented the destructive ravages of time which devoured all things, a concept that was illustrated when the Titan king ate the Olympian gods—the past consuming the future, the older generation suppressing the next generation.[24]

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During the Renaissance, the identification of Cronus and Chronos gave rise to "Father Time" wielding the harvesting scythe.

H. J. Rose in 1928[25] observed that attempts to give "Κρόνος" a Greek etymology had failed. Recently, Janda (2010) offers a genuinely Indo-European etymology of "the cutter", from the root *(s)ker- "to cut" (Greek κείρω (keirō), cf. English shear), motivated by Cronus's characteristic act of "cutting the sky" (or the genitals of anthropomorphic Uranus). The Indo-Iranian reflex of the root is kar, generally meaning "to make, create" (whence karma), but Janda argues that the original meaning "to cut" in a cosmogonic sense is still preserved in some verses of the Rigveda pertaining to Indra's heroic "cutting", like that of Cronus resulting in creation:

RV 10.104.10 ārdayad vṛtram akṛṇod ulokaṃ he hit Vrtra fatally, cutting [> creating] a free path. RV 6.47.4 varṣmāṇaṃ divo akṛṇod he cut [> created] the loftiness of the sky.

This may point to an older Indo-European mytheme reconstructed as *(s)kert wersmn diwos "by means of a cut he created the loftiness of the sky".[26] The myth of Cronus castrating Uranus parallels the Song of Kumarbi, where Anu (the heavens) is castrated by Kumarbi. In the Song of Ullikummi, Teshub uses the "sickle with which heaven and earth had once been separated" to defeat the monster Ullikummi,[27] establishing that the "castration" of the heavens by means of a sickle was part of a creation myth, in origin a cut creating an opening or gap between heaven (imagined as a dome of stone) and earth enabling the beginning of time (chronos) and human history.[28]

A theory debated in the 19th century, and sometimes still offered somewhat apologetically,[29] holds that Κρόνος is related to "horned", assuming a Semitic derivation from qrn.[30] Andrew Lang's objection, that Cronus was never represented horned in Hellenic art,[31] was addressed by Robert Brown,[32] arguing that, in Semitic usage, as in the Hebrew Bible, qeren was a signifier of "power". When Greek writers encountered the Semitic deity El, they rendered his name as Cronus.[33]

Robert Graves remarks that "cronos probably means 'crow', like the Latin cornix and the Greek corōne", noting that Cronus was depicted with a crow, as were the deities Apollo, Asclepius, Saturn and Bran.[34]

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When Hellenes encountered Phoenicians and, later, Hebrews, they identified the Semitic El, by interpretatio graeca, with Cronus. The association was recorded c. AD 100 by Philo of Byblos' Phoenician history, as reported in Eusebius' Præparatio Evangelica I.10.16.[35] Philo's account, ascribed by Eusebius to the semi-legendary pre-Trojan War Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, indicates that Cronus was originally a Canaanite ruler who founded Byblos and was subsequently deified. This version gives his alternate name as Elus or Ilus, and states that in the 32nd year of his reign, he emasculated, slew and deified his father Epigeius or Autochthon "whom they afterwards called Uranus". It further states that after ships were invented, Cronus, visiting the 'inhabitable world', bequeathed Attica to his own daughter Athena, and Egypt to Taautus the son of Misor and inventor of writing.[36]

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While the Greeks considered Cronus a cruel and tempestuous force of chaos and disorder, believing the Olympian gods had brought an era of peace and order by seizing power from the crude and malicious Titans,[citation needed] the Romans took a more positive and innocuous view of the deity, by conflating their indigenous deity Saturn with Cronus. Consequently, while the Greeks considered Cronus merely an intermediary stage between Uranus and Zeus, he was a larger aspect of Roman religion. The Saturnalia was a festival dedicated in his honour, and at least one temple to Saturn already existed in the archaic Roman Kingdom.

His association with the "Saturnian" Golden Age eventually caused him to become the god of "time", i.e., calendars, seasons, and harvests—not now confused with Chronos, the unrelated embodiment of time in general. Nevertheless, among Hellenistic scholars in Alexandria and during the Renaissance, Cronus was conflated with the name of Chronos, the personification of "Father Time",[17] wielding the harvesting scythe.

As a result of Cronus's importance to the Romans, his Roman variant, Saturn, has had a large influence on Western culture. The seventh day of the Judaeo-Christian week is called in Latin Dies Saturni ("Day of Saturn"), which in turn was adapted and became the source of the English word Saturday. In astronomy, the planet Saturn is named after the Roman deity. It is the outermost of the Classical planets (the astronomical planets that are visible with the naked eye).

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In Greco-Roman Egypt, Cronus was equated with the Egyptian god Geb, because he held a quite similar position in Egyptian mythology as the father of the gods Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys as Cronus did in the Greek pantheon. This equation is particularly well attested in Tebtunis in the southern Fayyum: Geb and Cronus were here part of a local version of the cult of Sobek, the crocodile god.[37] The equation was shown on the one hand in the local iconography of the gods, in which Geb was depicted as a man with attributes of Cronus and Cronus with attributes of Geb.[38] On the other hand, the priests of the local main temple identified themselves in Egyptian texts as priests of "Soknebtunis-Geb", but in Greek texts as priests of "Soknebtunis-Cronus". Accordingly, Egyptian names formed with the name of the god Geb were just as popular among local villager as Greek names derived from Cronus, especially the name "Kronion".[39]

Astronomy[edit]

A star (HD 240430) was named after him in 2017 when it was reported to have swallowed its planets.[40] The planet Saturn, named after the Roman equivalent of Cronus, is still referred to as "Cronus" in modern Greek.

"Cronus" was also a suggested name for the dwarf planet Pluto, but was rejected and not voted for because it was suggested by the unpopular and egocentric astronomer Thomas Jefferson Jackson See.[41]

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Rhea

Zeus

Hera

Poseidon

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Demeter

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Titanomachy: The Beginning

9000 words about the awkward first meeting of Zeus and his siblings. This takes place when Zeus releases the Olympians from their father Cronus and realize that a war is coming.

Now was the time.

Zeus was finally strong enough to face his father, Cronus, in a battle that would shake heaven and earth for a century. After years of cultivating his strength and learning the ways of the world, Metis and Amalthea felt that they had done all they could to prepare the young man to slay his father.

But he would need help.

He would need his brothers and sisters.

Zeus’s mother, Rhea, had told him countless times of his siblings being engulfed whole by Cronus, the proclaimed ruler of heaven, ocean and the earth. While it was true that they were immortal and had surely survived the endeavor, there was no way to know exactly what state they would be in once released from their dark prison.

“Hestia, she is your oldest sister,” Rhea said to him during one of their brief talks. “She is to be respected, as she has a power no others before her could ever wield. The power of flames.”

“What of the other’s?” he asked curiously. “What are the other’s like?”

Rhea’s eyes fell to the ground, as she struggled with the words, “I do not know. I was not granted the luxury of getting to know them as I did your sister. As soon as she showed her talents over flames, your father consumed her for fear of being defeated by his own progeny as he had defeated his father, Uranus. The rest he took out of my arms before they could so much as utter their first sounds of life.”

Zeus reflected on the conversation now, as he watched his mother hand the drugged laced goblet of fermented juice to his father.

What would they be like, his sisters, his brothers. Did they know the world that moved on while they lay dormant in the belly of a tyrant?

Could he convince them to be on his side, otherwise?

The act was crude to say the least when the king of all existence began to heave and gag up his supper. And though Zeus knew to expect it, the sight was no less appalling to see when the first body of a fully grown woman with long, tangled locks of walnut that stuck to her face from the wetness of Cronus's innards, no doubt. She was nude and gave a slight shiver at the chill on her damp, uncovered body.

When her radiant green eyes took in her surroundings, she looked like a frightened animal just released from a cage. Zeus felt an urge to go and comfort her, but there wasn’t time before another heave.

Another body, this one of a man with black matted hair, emerged from their father’s mouth. He wasn’t as frightened as the woman, perhaps understanding a little better by now what was happening.

They were being freed.

Another heave, and out came a woman with hair, skin and eyes the color of freshly tilled dirt. She also didn’t look frightened, but certainly confused.

Another heave, and a man emerged, this one looking unnervingly aware. His eyes as red as burning coals landed on Zeus’s and, to the young god’s surprise, the man gave a curt nod.

Like he understood what was happening, like he understood what was going on as well as Zeus himself.

A final, more violent heave and out came the only sibling Zeus had ever heard the name of: Hestia. Her smooth skin was the tone of ground sumac and her eyes and hair were as black as Nyx’s element. Unlike the others, she landed gracefully on her feet, just before turning towards Cronos. That’s when Zeus saw it, a radiation of light coming from one of her hands like she was holding a small whitish sun in her fingers.

Cronos, having been weakened by the drugs that forced him to regurgitate his devoured children, fled after spitting a curse to his wife Rhea.

He undoubtedly left for Mount Othrys to seek the aid of his fellow Titans.

The Olympians would have little time now. Decisions were to be made.

Zeus did not give chase. Instead he stood, in proud victory, over his freed siblings, though they were not the sight he had hoped to see. Though similar in structure of flesh and bone like he was, and close enough in size, Zeus was discomforted by the wild, animalistic sprawl of creatures before him covered in goo from their life giver, and masses of long, untamed wet hair clinging to unclothed bodies.

“What are we to do now?” the first woman to emerge asked, still sprawled out on the ground.

“You know what we must do, Hera,” answered the man who looked to Zeus earlier. “We have to fight.”

“But we don't know how to fight!” claimed the woman with dark features. “We barely have the strength to stand.”

Zeus wanted to speak, wanted to greet and even shake hands with the siblings he had heard so much about. After all, they were the reason he had done any of this.

He needed them.

They were his kind.

His brothers.

His sisters.

They were to fulfil this destiny of ruling the world with him, at his side. The Fates had seen it. Now they need only see it through.

Instead, his mother moved to his side, standing as all the titans did a great deal larger than he and her other children whom she hadn’t seen in such a long time. Her hand went around his shoulders and he felt her suggestion of patience wash over him.

“Hades is right.” It was Hestia who spoke this time, her eyes still watching the direction of their father, no, their captor had fled. “Demeter, I know you have fear. But we must. We have to fight.”

It was the other brother this time that cut in, standing erect and stretching out muscles that Zeus was surprised to find as well defined as his own. “We don’t have any reason to fight. We’re free now. Let’s go about our lives and be done with this. These are just politics, we’ve heard through that beast’s guts that this is just politics. I want to go find something to do, someone to do. I want to explore this world.”

“I want to fight, Poseidon. I’m going to fight.”

“Agh,” grunted the toned one.

Hades spoke up, a look of concentration on his face. “We must come up with a plan. He’s certainly gone to tell his followers what’s happened and they’ll be coming soon to slaughter us all.”

“Slaughter us!” cried Hera, struggling to stand on her thin, wobbling legs. It reminded Zeus of a newborn deer. “Then we must go, we must hide until we’re ready!”

“I can help.” All the heads turned to Zeus, which was enough to make them all go quiet. He was beautiful to say the least, dressed in a clean white shining chiton held up by a golden pin his grandmother Gaia had fastened him. All around him shone a radiance that would have made him difficult to stare at for too long by weaker eyes, but to his delight the others could take him in. His own silver eyes and wide toothy smile did little to ease the nerves of his siblings though. He realized they did not know who he was. No matter how many conversations they could have listened to, as they only knew what Cronus had seen, there was no way for them to have known Zeus was the sixth of the union between Cronus and Rhea.

“My children,” Rhea balled, walking with arms wide open towards what, to her, were miniature people. “I have longed for this day, the day that I could hold you in my arms and hear your sweet voice, a gift to mothers that I was denied!” She dropped to her knees and brought her arms around them, taking all but Zeus into her embrace as her whaling grew louder. “I have dreamed of this, I have dreamed you would be returned to me, and it is all thanks to your brother, your incredible baby brother.”

When everyone’s eyes instantly fell upon him, Zeus, for the first time in his life, blushed.

Baby brother indeed.

“And does this savior have a name?” asked the small Hera.

He smiled at the sound of her sweet voice.

She was becoming a quick favorite.

“I am Zeus.”

“How did you avoid our fate?” asked Poseidon, his brow furrowed as he stepped out of their mother’s embrace.

“I traded him with a boulder just before your wretched father tried to gobble him up,” she answered quickly, “Mother Gaia helped me plan it. Just as she and Father Sky helped plan this. The freedom of the Olympians.”

“Is that what we are?” asked Demeter timidly. “We’re Olympians. Not Titans?”

“No, not Titans,” spat Zeus. “We are better. And we will rise to better. But first, we must leave this place and devise a plan.”

“Then I suppose you could use all the help you could get, hm?”

The voice came from someone new, with a voice that was soft, tender and exceedingly feminine. Walking from the ocean that cast waves onto the rocks appeared a woman, but not just any woman.

This woman exuded an aroma of roses and salt water and flesh smooth, lightly oiled. She was draped in a sheer white linen that clung to the curves of her breasts and hips.

They all knew who she was, for the goddess needed no introduction with an entrance as show stopping as a comet crashing into the Earth.

“Aphrodite!” exclaimed Rhea, “I’m so glad you came!”

She stood between the Titaness and Olympians height, her breasts conveniently eye level with Zeus and Poseidon who had yet to tear their hungry eyes away from her ample bosom.

“I’m here with good news. Themis, Epimetheus and Prometheus said that they will join our cause.”

“You mean the Titans?” Zeus exclaimed, surprised by the alliance. “Mother, you said we couldn't’ trust any of the Titans.”

“No, son, I told you we shouldn’t ask for their aid. That is, until the time is right. And it needed to be done when, if someone were to betray us to Cronus, it would happen when we already freed your brothers and sisters. Themis and Prometheus are fine soldiers. I suppose they will do us a great good.” She turned back to Aphrodite, disturbed at the lack of names. “But what of Oceanus?” Surely her brother knew how important this was.

The goddess shook her beautiful head of burgundy curls. “He is unable to leave the seas to fight with us. But he sends his daughter Styx and her children Zelus, Nike, Cratos and Bia.”

Rhea crossed her arms, sticking the nail of her thumb in her mouth as she pondered aloud, “Yes, but will it be enough.”

It was Hestia who spoke up this time, her voice steady and well mannered as if she hadn’t spent her entire existence lost in a black abyss with her brothers and sisters. “If it’s alliances you seek, perhaps amongst your enemy is not who you need to implore. But rather, the enemy of the enemy.”

“Who do you have in mind?” asked Zeus curiously.

“Tell me, what do you know of the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes?”

“The-the Hecatonchires?” Rhea looked aghast at the suggestion. “Those monsters would do us no good, they would sooner rip us all to pieces with their hundred hands!”

“They hate your husband for hiding them away in Gaia,” Aphrodite pointed out. “They might prove a worthy ally.”

“They’re deep within Tartarus for all we know, how could we possibly find the, free them, and convince them to help us?”

“I can go,” offered Zeus. “I can do this, it’s my destiny to see this through.”

Before she could offer up an objection, the other Olympians agreed.

“You free them and we will meet with the defecting Titans,” Hestia decided. “We can begin preparations for battle by the time you get back.”

Rhea, Aphrodite noticed, looked somewhat clammy at the idea though not a word left her lips. The goddess wondered if the Titaness realized exactly what it was she had started.

A war was coming.

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Prometheus punishment - so basically a bird created by Prometheus was eating his liver?

prometheus, the bringer of fire (asteroid 1809)

hey everyone this is my first request for a particular god/titan story! yes, i do take requests and yes, i will fulfill them so long as there are asteroids associated with them! :) send more!

i give you: prometheus.

Prometheus was the son of Lapetus (the titan) and Clymene (the oceanid). At the time Prometheus didn’t like how the titans ruled and he didn’t know how the gods would rule so he and his brother Epimetheus sided with the gods in the Titanomachy (this was odd because they were the only titans on the gods side). The Titanomachy was a ten year war in which Zeus toppled the old pantheon which was lead by Uranus and Gaea from Mount Othrys. After ten years of fighting side by side both Prometheus and Zeus were allies (old war buddies). That was until Prometheus (who with Athena's help, allegedly, made humanity) saw how Zeus ruled over the humans that things changed - but this rift didn’t start gradually it started at Mecone. In celebration of the victory, Zeus gave Prometheus the task to divide the meat of two oxen - one would go to the gods and the other would go to the humans. Prometheus made two piles one with all the meat and the other with bones, fat, and sinew. Zeus had to provide the humans with food, which left them with the bones and fat - this set the precedent that the humans would always eat well and the gods received their scraps. Angry with Prometheus for this, he tried to take the fire Prometheus gave the humans as a means of punishment - but Prometheus just gave it back. And this is what sparked Zeus (lightening puns lol) into punishing Prometheus. Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock where he sent an eagle (Zeus sent it, it wasn’t created but Prometheus) to prey on Prometheus’s liver during the day and at night, since Prometheus was immortal, his liver would regenerate in time to be pecked apart the next day. It was years until he got free because he advised Hercules how to complete one of his labor in which his brother, Atlas, was involved. Afterward, he and Zeus made peace with one another. IN MY OPINION Prometheus in a chart can represent a) in what area of life you stand against your friends and/or family, b) change/evolution, c) selflessness/humanity towards others, and/or d) where you feel tortured in life.

i encourage you to look into the aspects of prometheus along with the sign, degree, and house placement. for the more advanced astrologers, take a look at the persona chart of prometheus AND/OR add the other characters involved to see how they support or impede prometheus!

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Fanservant - Caster Pandora

Everyone knows the basics of Pandora's origin: Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gifted the symbolic flame to humanity. For his crimes against the gods, Prometheus was bound and Pandora was created as punishment to humanity. However, the origins of our Pandora slightly differ. Prometheus was split in two: his divine half had his liver pecked out by an eagle, while the husk left behind was given to Hephaestus to mold into the scapegoat for Calamity.

Name: Pandora, Pandora=Prometheus

Class(es): Caster

Gender: Female

Source: Greek Myth

Region: Greece

Alignment: True Neutral

Pandora entered the world naive, but curious to understand her new place in the world. She was sent to reside with her brother Epimetheus and was instructed to never open a jar (translated as a box) given to her by the gods, but was otherwise left to her own devices. One day, curiosity got the better of Pandora while Epimetheus was out and she opened the jar. Thus the great evils of the world were released: sickness, death, and other unnamed tragedies. Pandora realizing what she had done quickly closed the jar, trapping the final existence in the jar: Hope.

The end of Pandora’s tale ends with the release of Hope into the world, but Pandora’s life afterward is surrounded in mystery. However, we do know the eventual fate of Prometheus. He uttered a prophecy that Zeus would be overthrown by a child stronger than his father is he has a child with Thetis, a sea nymph. Zeus relents his courtship and Thetis has a child with Peleus, King of Aegnia--this child is Achilles. In turn, Zeus allows Heracles to free Prometheus from his bonds.

As a Servant, Pandora is a mix between her two selves. One could even say Pandora is the Pseudoservant of Prometheus, but she insists the two are one and the same. “As a Titan, I tricked Zeus gave humanity fire and the desire to learn! And then when Zeus stole my Divinity and and memories I still managed to give humanity Hope, so be grateful you lot!”

Noble Phantasm(s):

Πανδώρα πίθος (Pandora Pithos): The Jar of Calamity and Hope (EX Anti-Hope) – Pandora opens a clay jar and unleashes random effects along with calamity, blights, and sickness in an area effect. She can also use the jar to capture an opponent’s Noble Phantasm and store it for latter use.

Προμηθεύς (Prometheus): Wise God of Fire and Forethought (EX Transformation) Pandora utters her soul’s True Name and her humanity is literally burned away as she becomes the Titan Prometheus. Prometheus’s Divinity is ranked to the max and Command Spells are no longer able to control him. There is no way to stop this Noble Phantasm until Prometheus burns out.

Skill(s): Territory Creation (A) – A Caster-class staple. As someone who lived at the end of the Golden Age of Gods, a Temple is natural.

Divinity (C) – Prometheus was a Titan a being that rivaled the Greek Gods. However, as Pandora, he has had his Divinity stripped away. However, as the first woman created by the gods, Pandora herself has the Skill.

Gifts from the Gods (A+) – When Pandora was crafted from clay as Prometheus’s mortal incarnation , the gods gave her a gift whether it be her beauty, needlework, clothes, jewelry, or even the garland on her head. The Skill is a unique composite of Self-Suggestion (A+), Golden Rule (D), Natural Body (A), and positive increases to her Parameters.

Fire-Bearer (B) – A skill unique to Prometheus. It has been Ranked Down due to loss of Divinity. It is the power to spread culture and free thinking to others and kindle the fire in other’s hearts. Grants allies a buff that prevents any negative mental influence.

Affection of the Trickster God (B) - Out of all of Pandora’s gifts, it was Hermes who gave her a calculating mind, a silver tongue, and the name Pandora. An ability to see how to most effectively use what is at her disposal through deceit, affection,or bribery. A sort of Charisma that Pandora would rather not use.

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