The Caucasian Orpheus,

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Prometheus (Hesiod 800 BC)


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The Titan Prometheus is punished by Zeus
for assisting humanity
by being tied to a tree and pecked by an eagle.

Atlas, also suffering the punishment of Zeus,
looks on while a snake is at his feet,
standing for the underworld.

A raven seems to be on the stylised tree
by the head of the tormented saviour.

Black figure bowl from Laconia




Prometheus was the Caucasian Orpheus,

the benefactor of humanity,

whom he taught skills he had learned from Athene
(whose birth from the head of Zeus he had assisted).

The skills were those such as architecture,
astronomy, navigation, mathematics, metallurgy,
medicine and such like.

In Attica he wa
s worshipped as the god of craftsmen.


Zeus wanted to destroy humanity
and spared them because of Prometheus

 

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was cruelly punished, or at least had to suffer cruelly in the myth.


The story of Prometheus's punishment, burial and resurrection

was acted in pantomimes written by the
great Aeschylus in Athens,

five hundred years before Christ, which proves its great antiquity.

The modern story of this crucified God, which has him bound to a rock
for thirty years,
while vultures preyed upon his vitals,
is a Christian fraud,
inasmuch as the crucifixion aspect of the drama was omitted.

Yet even in the extant translations of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus,
the god is plainly crucified, albeit on a rock:

Force: Seize his hands and master him.
Now to your hammer. Pin him to the rocks.
Drive stoutly now your wedge straight through his breast,
the stubborn jaw of steel that cannot break.
Now for his feet. Drive the nails through the flesh.

When Pr
ometheus is crucified in this way,

Force taunts him just as Jesus was in the gospels:

Run hot now, you there on the rocks,
Go steal from gods to give their goods to men
What will they do to lift these woes from you?

Prometheus, whose name means forethought,
had foreseen it all, just as Jesus was supposed to have,
and muses to himself in his agony that he had:

Nothing, no pang of pain that I did not foresee.

A chorus of maidens lament his agony and desolation,
weeping in sorrow. Soon we hear the very line
that is attributed to Christ addressing Paul
(Acts 26:14), proof enough that the author knew the play:

Don't kick against the pricks,

The version of Prometheus given by Aeschylus
has Prometheus bound for eternity,
because as a god, he was immortal and his liver grew again every night,
but Zeus fired a thunderbolt that sent the captive to Tartarus still bound.

Zeus's thunderbolt shook the earth, rocks were rent,
the whole frame of nature became convul
sed,
and in a storm, which seemed to threaten the dissolution of the universe,
the solemn scene closed, and Prometheus departed
to the underworld in d
eath.

Tartarus is the abyss of the underworldthe equal of the Christian Hell
and to go there means death!
Prometheus had told Zeus the secret he wanted to know,
and Zeus, responding to his son Herakles's pleas,
allowed Herakles to kill the eagle and free the captive.

Prometheus was freed from Tartarus,
and later was elevated to Olympus.

Confinement to Tartarus is death,
liberation from Tartarus is resurrection.
<span style=\'color:red\'>Christians find it impossible to understand this.

The dismissal to the underworld after the crucifixion suggests
that Prometheus was crucified at the autumn equinox.

He is therefore the beneficial summer sun of cool countries
being sent back to Hades at the end of the summer.

Prometheus is only restored to Olympus because the centaur,
Cheiron agrees to
lose his immortality to allow Prometheus
to regain his.

So here the redeemer of humanity is himself redeemed
by
the self-sacrifice of his personal redeemer Cheiron!

Several other benefactors of humanityand therefore saviours
were cruelly punished by Zeus.

At one time they were the gods of foreign,
rebellious or defiant people and so have been punished
in hell in the myths of the Greeks.