I associate the words Awake Aware Alive to the Tarot card The Sun, that source of life and light. In gnostic paintings, people have halos or little fires over their heads.
Prometheus was an immortal who created humanity in his image. In this story, various immortals while creating all the other creatures pulled talents and physical traits from a pool. Prometheus, focusing on what he thought was important, like speech and craft, the pool was empty of all the good physical traits like cheetah speed, ox horns, or seal blubber. His pathetic humans were shivering in the dark, hungry and unable to see the dangerous creatures surrounding them.
He 'borrowed' fire from Hyperion, the Sun Titan. Literal fire to sustain them and spiritual mental fire to awaken them.