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THE 4 ASPECTS OF PROMETHEUS

 

BY FRANZ KAFKA

 

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

According to the first, he was clamped to a rock in the Caucasus for betraying the secrets of the gods to men, and the gods sent eagles to feed on his liver, which was perpetually renewed.

 

According to the second, Prometheus, goaded by the pain of the tearing beaks, pressed himself deeper and deeper into the rock until he became one with it.

 

According to the third, his treachery was forgotten in the course of thousands of years, forgotten by the gods, the eagles, forgotten by himself.

 

According to the fourth, everyone grew weary of the meaningless affair. The gods grew weary, the eagles grew weary, the wound closed wearily.

 

There remains the inexplicable mass of rock.

 

The legend tried to explain the inexplicable.

 

As it came out of a substratum of truth it had in turn to end in the inexplicable.

PROMETHEUS

THE HERO WITH A

THOUSAND FACES

THE HERETIC

 

MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN

IN OUR OWN WAY : WE ARE ALL PROMETHEUS
Beethoven, Overture "The Creatures of Prometheus"
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