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The squire is too afraid of what the thief will steal next, so he lets him marry his daughter. | The squire is too afraid of what the thief will steal next, so he lets him marry his daughter. | ||
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They (the humans) went to Jupiter (Zeus) and complained to him about their benefactor. When the father of the gods and the other gods found out about the theft, they were not angry at all, but were even delighted with what had happened. They not only gave the humans the fire, but also gave them another gift: eternal youth. Overjoyed, the people loaded this gift onto the back of a donkey, which set off on its journey home. On the way, the donkey suffered from great thirst. He came to a spring, but it was guarded by a snake, which only allowed him to drink on condition that he gave it what he was carrying on his back. The poor donkey agreed, and so the humans lost their eternal youth. - Bacon saw the Prometheus myth as a symbolic representation of the human condition. He interpreted Jupiter's accusation against the Firebringer as a justified human complaint about the inadequacy of previous scientific knowledge, which was in need of improvement. This shows human dissatisfaction with what has already been achieved, the rejection of stagnation and the constant striving for new inventions. This will to progress pleased Jupiter and prompted him to make the further gift, as such an attitude was worth rewarding. For Bacon, the donkey as a sluggish animal symbolizes the slowness of scientific progress based on mere empirical knowledge without theoretical insight. Humans had made the mistake of loading the gift of the gods onto a cumbersome, dull beast of burden. | |||
One of the oldest elements of the saga is the significance of fire theft as the beginning of civilization. The aspect of civilization was elaborated in the course of development and became more important within the mythical tradition; the mere thief became a man of knowledge and enlightenment. The creation of man was added as a more recent special motif. The role of the protagonist became considerably more important as the myth was expanded. | |||
In many parts of the world, tales have arisen according to which the human use of fire began with theft or fraud: Fire was stolen from a deity or purloined from the heavens or a fairyland, or knowledge of its creation was obtained by tricking the original owner. The theft is often described as the act of a legendary hero, a cunning cultural hero of the trickster type. The background to such tales is the assumption of an antagonistic relationship between gods and humans. The humans came into possession of the precious commodity not through the favor of the original divine owner of the fire, but through the daring of a cunning helper. | |||
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