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Titán, héroe cultural y figura tramposa en la mitología griega que desafió a los dioses; hijo de Íapeto
En la mitología griega, Prometeo es un Titán que es responsable de crear y ayudar a la humanidad en sus primeros días. Desafió a los dioses olímpicos robándoles el fuego y dándoselo a la humanidad.
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“A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.”
“Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.”
“Mike is our Prometheus — but that's all. Mike keeps emphazing this. Thou art God, I am God, he is God — all that groks. Mike is a man like the rest of us. A superior man admittedly — a lesser man taught the things the Martians know, might have set himself up as a pipsqueak god. Mike is above that temptation. Prometheus… but that is all.”
“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs — and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back — in a book.”
“As technology became more important, the Trickster underwent a shift in character and became the god of crafts — of technology, if you will — while retaining the underlying roguish qualities. So we have the Sumerian Enki, the Greek Prometheus and Hermes, Norse Loki, and so on.”
“The current rampages of territorial-emotional pugnacity sweeping this planet are not just another civilization failing … They are the birth-pangs of a cosmic Prometheus rising out of the long nightmare of domesticated primate history.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
