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Prometheus

 

 

"I wish no living thing to suffer pain."

 

In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a trickster figure who is credited with the creation of man from clay, and who defies the gods and gives fire to humanity, an act that enabled progress and civilization.

 

 

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The immortal Prometheus was bound to a rock, where each day an eagle, the emblem of Zeus, was sent to feed on his liver, which would then grow back to be eaten again the next day.

 

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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;

To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;

To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;

To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates

From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;

Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;

This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be

Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;

This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

 

Prometheus Unbound

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

 

 

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Tracy named one of Memeow's kittens Lucky (sounds very close to Loki with her accent) when he was only a couple of months old. She would say to him that he was lucky anyone wanted him, considering how he was always getting into stuff and causing trouble. He has grown into the prettiest cat in the litter. But he is still very mischievous. Just last week I described him to someone as the resident trickster.

 

And now your posts...

 

...you always amaze me Mike.

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Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form of a salmon, mare, seal, a fly, and possibly an elderly woman a kitten.

 

 

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Tracy named one of Memeow's kittens Lucky (sounds very close to Loki with her accent) when he was only a couple of months old. She would say to him that he was lucky anyone wanted him, considering how he was always getting into stuff and causing trouble. He has grown into the prettiest cat in the litter. But he is still very mischievous. Just last week I described him to someone as the resident trickster.

 

And now your posts...

 

...you always amaze me Mike.

 

Hmmm - fixed that. (Always wise to hedge one's bets when there are tricksters about.)

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Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form of a salmon, mare, seal, a fly, and possibly an elderly woman a kitten.

 

Hmmm - fixed that. (Always wise to hedge one's bets when there are tricksters about.)

Lucky...the trickster...

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So, much of the iconography of comic books can be traced back via psychoanalysis of the archetypes and via the study of comparative mythology to the earliest stories, myths of gods and heroes passed down from generation to generation through an oral tradition that predates the art of writing.

 

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Such stories reinforce the social order, provide a rational basis for codifications of beliefs and values, and inspire right thinking and moral behavior which serve to bind a society together.

 

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