Of those of Greek cycle Myths alone: the question which is your favourite?
Is either too large or too small.
This said,
The idea that Zeus, after Prometheus gave us the godly power of fire, forced us from the ease of a life of picking ripe fruits from boughs, fresh fish from rivers, and living in harmony with nature.
Of those of Greek cycle Myths alone: the question which is your favourite?
Is either too large or too small.
This said,
The idea that Zeus, after Prometheus gave us the godly power of fire, forced us from the ease of a life of picking ripe fruits from boughs, fresh fish from rivers, and living in harmony with nature.
And condemned humanity to the daily toil of tilling, harvesting and herding grazing animals on the fields.
Is a perfect metaphor among many perfect metaphors for the shift from Neolithic life to settled civilisation.
"Metaphysics is a kind of magic; it attempts to express the inexpressible, to grasp the ungraspable."
Wittgenstein: in defence of mythology as a means of understanding ourselves and the world around us.
Of those of Greek cycle Myths alone: the question which is your favourite?
Is either too large or too small.
This said,
The idea that Zeus, after Prometheus gave us the godly power of fire, forced us from the ease of a life of picking ripe fruits from boughs, fresh fish from rivers, and living in harmony with nature.
And condemned humanity to the daily toil of tilling, harvesting and herding grazing animals on the fields.
Is a perfect metaphor among many perfect metaphors for the shift from Neolithic life to settled civilisation.
"Metaphysics is a kind of magic; it attempts to express the inexpressible, to grasp the ungraspable."
Wittgenstein: in defence of mythology as a means of understanding ourselves and the world around us.