Prometheus is a Titan who defied the Olympian gods by giving fire to humanity, symbolically in the form of technology, knowledge, and civilization. Due to this disobedience, he was condemned to eternal torment, bound to a rock, with an eagle feasting on his liver. His liver would grow back overnight, only to be eaten again, and again. Sounds absolutely tragic. I’m sorry, Prometheus. You got a bad deal. And what the hell, Zeus? Kind of an overreaction… Jokes aside, I feel like I might be seeing what the original authors were hinting at, so explore with me here. No other animal can maintain or use fire like humans do. We do not think about it much now because we have electricity, which is relatively new. For much longer, we depended on fire and lived with it every single day. Research on early controlled fire use at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa - (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3356665/) Imagine what this may have done to us. With fire, we became more separate from the…
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