Druidus
Keeper of the Grove
I thought I'd start another one of these, if no one minds. You give the backstory of a God, or mythological figure, and other people have to guess the name of said being.
I'll start with an easy one:
Was the son of Iapetos and Klymene. His name means Forethought. He tricked the gods into eating bare bones instead of good meat. He stole the sacred fire from Zeus. Was a god long before Zeus took the Throne of Eternity. He fought for Zeus against the devising Kronos, but never had true respect for Zeus.
He feared that the new Olympians had no compassion for each other or the mortals on the earth below.
To show his disdain, he prepared two sacrifices and, in an attempt to belittle Zeus, he made one sacrifice of fat and bones and the other of the finest meat. The trick was, he had wrapped the fat in such a way that it looked to be the most sincere tribute of the two. Zeus saw through the trick and magnanimously controlled his anger. He warned Prometheus but did not punish him.
Dispite Zeus warning, he took pity on the primitive mortals and again, he deceived Zeus. He gave the mortals all sorts of gifts: brickwork, woodworking, telling the seasons by the stars, numbers, the alphabet (for remembering things), yoked oxen, carriages, saddles, ships and sails. He also gave other gifts: healing drugs, seercraft, signs in the sky, the mining of precious metals, animal sacrifice and all art.
To compound his crime, he had stolen fire from Zeus and given it to the mortals in their dark caves. The gift of divine fire unleashed a flood of inventiveness, productivity and, most of all, respect for the immortal gods in the rapidly developing mortals. Within no time (by immortal standards), culture, art, and literacy permeated the land around Olympus.
Zeus was furious. He shackled the trickster to the side of a cliff, and had an eagle tear out his liver (amongst other things) every day, when it would grow back, by the next day, for eternity.
Herakles saved him from this fate, approximately 13-14 generations after the punishment began.
Edit: Because of the fact that the God has been guessed, this is the source for the description: http://messagenet.com/myths/bios/promethe.html
I'll start with an easy one:
Was the son of Iapetos and Klymene. His name means Forethought. He tricked the gods into eating bare bones instead of good meat. He stole the sacred fire from Zeus. Was a god long before Zeus took the Throne of Eternity. He fought for Zeus against the devising Kronos, but never had true respect for Zeus.
He feared that the new Olympians had no compassion for each other or the mortals on the earth below.
To show his disdain, he prepared two sacrifices and, in an attempt to belittle Zeus, he made one sacrifice of fat and bones and the other of the finest meat. The trick was, he had wrapped the fat in such a way that it looked to be the most sincere tribute of the two. Zeus saw through the trick and magnanimously controlled his anger. He warned Prometheus but did not punish him.
Dispite Zeus warning, he took pity on the primitive mortals and again, he deceived Zeus. He gave the mortals all sorts of gifts: brickwork, woodworking, telling the seasons by the stars, numbers, the alphabet (for remembering things), yoked oxen, carriages, saddles, ships and sails. He also gave other gifts: healing drugs, seercraft, signs in the sky, the mining of precious metals, animal sacrifice and all art.
To compound his crime, he had stolen fire from Zeus and given it to the mortals in their dark caves. The gift of divine fire unleashed a flood of inventiveness, productivity and, most of all, respect for the immortal gods in the rapidly developing mortals. Within no time (by immortal standards), culture, art, and literacy permeated the land around Olympus.
Zeus was furious. He shackled the trickster to the side of a cliff, and had an eagle tear out his liver (amongst other things) every day, when it would grow back, by the next day, for eternity.
Herakles saved him from this fate, approximately 13-14 generations after the punishment began.
Edit: Because of the fact that the God has been guessed, this is the source for the description: http://messagenet.com/myths/bios/promethe.html
) I'm horrible when it comes to remembering gods! But I believe it is Prometheus, though I'm not entirely certain.
