Prometheus, That Accursed Organ Shall Be The Bounty Of Itself

Zeus, your predilection for banishing Titans to Hades...

anathema of them--revolt was theirs of you...Titanomachy.

Enter Prometheus, second generational Titan, brother to

Atlas--Prometheus of whom Titan revolt at first ran no fire

through his veins.

Thus, Zeus was well pleased and employed Prometheus to

put earth to water, water to earth...as to yield man.

As so man was, and was unto Prometheus...fondness entered

him of them.

And in of passion Prometheus' veins were run through with

fire...thus Prometheus reached out taking hold Zeus'

lightning.

Hid in the hollowed fennel stalk, to be bequeathed to man.

Torrents of fire now ran Prometheus' veins, and in a fit of

infamous mockery presented Zeus with two packets of

slaughtered animal parts.

A hubris was born in Prometheus that being so halved God-man

gave itself fully to that polarity...he gawked at Zeus and bade

him choose between the two packets.

One of ox meat and innards coated in stomach lining, the other

of ox-bones coated in its own abundant fat.

Thus Zeus chose, the wretched lesser of the two...unconsumable

ox-bones coated in fat.

A charged and terrible air cut and heavied all direction, pointing

assuredly that Zeus was one given over to the surface of things,

a psychological casualty of vanity.

Zeus overcome with Prometheus' disaffection for the God of him

struck at Prometheus' family.

At length, this assault could not, would not put asunder Prometheus

from the ground he stood.

A certain Haphaestus was summoned by Zeus whose directive was

writ in torment.

Chain Prometheus to Mount Caucascus...where from on high a

sackcloth cloud shall shake loose an eagle, whose homing hunger

shall have only a taste for Prometheus' liver.

Day in, and day out that accursed organ shall be the bounty of itself!

 

 

Konstantinos Mark

 

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