The earliest versions of the myth involve a "sealed pottery vase. What Pandora was given was called a " pithos ," which translates roughly to "vessel. Like any rational creature, Pandora's curiosity was piqued when she was given a secret container, told never to open it, and sent to earth to marry a stranger who held the key to this mystery vessel.
Unfortunately, the temptation was just too much and it was this curiosity that unleashed all the world's evils. The list of items released from Pandora's box are a handful: illness , worry, crime, hate, envy They flew out of the box like little bugs, and Pandora tried to shut it back up as quickly as she could.
She did, according to some of the versions of her myth, manage to trap one important thing inside: hope. It is disputed why Zeus would even put hope in a vessel of evils. One rationale is that Zeus wasn't the worst , and snuck hope in there as some sort of nicety in the midst of all the other horrors. Another is that Zeus meant for hope to remain in the box, to make the people suffer even more, and make them understand why they should never cross him again.
Despite being created solely to punish mankind , Pandora was gifted with a few nice traits by some generous gods, hence her name , "all-gifts. It seems odd that Zeus would gift a beautiful woman to the brother of someone he hated, but Pandora was supposed to be a punishment, so maybe it was part of his bigger plan.
In fact, Prometheus warned his brother not to accept any gifts from the gods, but Epimetheus was too drawn in by Pandora's beauty. To punish man, Zeus created a woman named Pandora. She was molded to look like the beautiful goddess Aphrodite. She received the gifts of wisdom, beauty, kindness, peace, generosity, and health from the gods. As a wedding present, Zeus gave Pandora a box in ancient Greece this was called a jar but warned her never to open it.
Horrible things flew out of the box including greed, envy, hatred, pain, disease, hunger, poverty, war, and death. Pandora was the right person to do it, because she was curious enough, but not malicious. The myth itself though appears in many different versions; the most distinctive difference is that in some myths Hope does come out. The main purpose of the myth of Pandora though is to address the question of why evil exists in the world.
The birth of Pandora was represented on the pedestal of the statue of Athena situated at the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens.
Thanks for publishing this article: I actually met someone a while ago who, I just recently learned did not know about Pandora. She thought is was just a place to get an endless supply of music on her phone. Never knew the story behind the box.
Each person has their own world, that is what makes each of us unique. Go easy…. Kratos eventually discovered the Box that was placed within the Flame of Olympus, and was told by Athena's Astral Form to seek out Pandora, in order to calm the Fires. Eventually after killing many Gods, and reaching the Chamber of the Flame next to the Throne of Mount Olympus, Kratos succeeded in dispelling the Flame fighting Zeus and sacrificing Pandora in the process , but found the Box empty, which caused Zeus to mock Kratos for "another stunning failure".
That revelation only strengthened his rage and desire for vengeance on Zeus, and Kratos eventually fought Zeus again, and, with the Blade of Olympus , struck what seemed to be a fatal blow on the King of the Gods while inside Gaia , which also killed her. However, Zeus released a ghost-like projection of himself from his body, which began to attack Kratos with a powerful blast that knocked all of his weapons and armor down and then by infecting him with Fear, the same Evil that corrupted the King of the Gods, and thus forced him to feel the fear and pain of his many victims, as well as his own, long-buried guilt over all of the terrible things that he had done in his life like killing his wife, Lysandra , his child, Calliope and his sister, Athena.
As Zeus' spiritual image attacked Kratos and infected his mind, the Spartan withdrew into his own Psyche , and was guided by the spirit of Pandora.
After he absolved himself of his sins, Kratos was able to unlock the power that Athena had told him to find that was symbolized by his Astral Form opening Pandora's Box, used it to kill Zeus for good, and thus, the Lighting of the World was unleashed. Shortly after Zeus' death, Athena revealed that years ago when Zeus gathered all the Evil and trapped them in Pandora's Box, she placed the "most Powerful weapon in the world" in the Box, the Power of Hope , to counteract the Evils in case it was opened again Pandora later revealed that she anticipated on the moment that Pandora's Box would be opened.
The first time that Kratos opened the Box, Athena believed that the power of Hope to remain inside, while Kratos drew from the Evils. In truth, however, Athena realized that Kratos had actually accessed Hope, while the Evils corrupted the Gods including Zeus which caused him to be obsessed with Kratos's death.
Until his confrontation with Zeus, Kratos had been unable to use the Power freely, because it was trapped beneath his overwhelming hatred, guilt, sins, and failures of his past, but that it was freed, she could reclaim it and use it to reshape the world.
In response, however, Kratos impaled himself on the Blade of Olympus, released Hope to the world, and completed the escape of the powers that were once held in Pandora's Box. Exactly what that meant was never truly explored, but that did not appear to encompass all of the World's flaws: ample amounts of anger, cruelty, and other negative traits were apparent in the series long before Kratos opened the Box.
However, Athena claimed that the Evils within Pandora's Box could destroy the World if they were left unchecked, which implied that the powers within Pandora's Box may have been extremely potent versions of natural negative traits that were focused to unnaturally destructive levels by the widespread violence of the Titanomachy.
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