tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post7747106416560797552..comments2024-02-24T03:34:18.060-05:00Comments on Stealing Commas: The line of Nyxchris the cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-52663406806302937912012-11-13T15:28:33.486-05:002012-11-13T15:28:33.486-05:00Huzzah!
Giving fire to men made of ash trees is k...Huzzah!<br /><br />Giving fire to men made of ash trees is kind of a jerk move. Here, now you can give it to your progenitors, nyuk nyuk.<br />redsixwinghttp://redsixwing.dreamwidth.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-47320632141537328772012-11-11T20:47:29.907-05:002012-11-11T20:47:29.907-05:00Interestingly, that's one of the parts that...Interestingly, that's one of the parts that's entirely accurate, and downright confounding.<br /><br />It seems to be the case that it went thus:<br />First age of humanity: Didn't have any kids, died when the time came, lack of mothers not a problem. Thus the earth sort of ran out of them<br /><br />Second age of humanity: Modeled on the first race but not as well, mated with nymphs (who got stuck rearing the children for 100 years because... why?) and then left them to live short violent lives once they reached their long awaited adulthood. Zeus kills them all.<br /><br />Third age of humanity: Made out ash trees. Warlike and mean. Killed each other off.<br /><br />Fourth age of humanity: The heroes <br /><br />Fifth: Us.<br /><br />That's one story, here's the other:<br /><br />Pandora is the first human woman. She unleashes evils upon the world by opening the jar. (Note well: Jar, not a box.)<br /><br />Ok, so where the hell does that fit in?<br /><br />Well my best guess would have been the end of the second age and beginning of the third, and some of the above was written thinking that, but everyone else places it at the end of the third age, and I know why. I placed it there myself when I took a mythology class. The people Prometheus gave fire to, they were formed from ash trees.<br /><br />It's a single word and easy to miss, but it is a reference that crosses the two narratives. The fire theft had to be during the third age, which places Pandora during the third age, which places the first human woman during the third age. The end of the third age.<br /><br />But, yeah, the first three ages of humanity are without human women. Even though mothers are specifically mentioned in the second age. It's weird. It's Greek myth.<br /><br />The ages of man, and Pandora in detail, are in Hesiod's <i>Works and Days</i>, but the detail that allows you to chronologically unite the two stories, that the men Prometheus gave fire to were men from ash trees, is in his <i>Theogony</i>chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-57825725973219662012012-11-11T19:48:59.423-05:002012-11-11T19:48:59.423-05:00Amusing and educational! (I didn't know Pandor...Amusing <em>and</em> educational! (I didn't know Pandora was the <em>first</em> human woman. Learn something new every day.)Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18034585577015417306noreply@blogger.com