a long long time ago far away above the clouds high up amongst the clouds of
Mount Olympus the gods lived in a Content and happy life away from the humans
they enjoyed all the pleasures of life while humans were suffering on earth at times
when the gods were bored they would play with the humans on earth as well
they thought it was good fun by keeping away the fire from people for many many years people
on earth could cook and warm themselves using the fire but without it they were suffering
Prometheus the son of Zeus was a kind and compassionate man who took pity on mankind when he saw the sorry
state of humans on earth without the fire he took pity on them he requested his father to give fire
to the humans but Zeus refused so one night he stole the fire from Zeus and gave it to the people
on earth Zeus was very angry and ordered that Prometheus be chained to the side of a mountain
to suffer there for all eternity but that wasn't enough for Zeus he decided to punish him further
and this time he decided to trick his son the gods created a beautiful woman called Pandora
and took her to prometheus but Prometheus had his doubts he was afraid that the gods were trying to
trick him so he decided to ignore her however his brother Epimetheus fell in love with the beautiful
Pandora and decided to marry her they got married and they lived happily together for many months
one day mercury the messenger of the gods arrived with a mysterious box he asked Pandora and her
husband to take care of it while he was away before he left he warned them to never open the box
for days Pandora could not take her eyes off the box all the time she wondered what was inside
could it be full of shining jewels glittering robes or diamonds whenever Epimetheus was away
and no one was around Pandora would go near the box and run her fingers over the polished wood
and the golden clasp however one day she could bear it no longer and her curiosity overcame her
she crept up to the box and gently opened the clasp slowly lifting the lid she peeked
inside guns had filled the box with all kind of evils disease misery and death swooped and bust
out of the box stinging her Pandora screamed and screamed with pain and fear
Epimetheus heard her cries as he rode into the courtyard he ran to aid her taking her into his arms and comforted her as
the Evil's flew out of their house and spread across the land it was then that Epimetheus
heard a tiny little voice calling from the box let me out let me out believing that nothing
inside the box could be worse than the horrors that already got out he opened the lid once more
all that remained was a tiny crumpled butterfly shivering in the corner the beautiful butterfly
was hope which mercury had hidden amongst the evils taking pity on mankind slowly it unfolded
its sparkling wings and brushed them against Pandora healing her wounds ever since humans
have been able to hold on to this hope in order to survive the wickedness that Pandora had let out