Prometheus

 

Vergleich: Siehe: Götter + Promethium

 

Prometheus (= "foresight" = literally "fore-thought"/ingenious/clever) erschafft Menschen/= Lehrer der Menschen/= Trickster./= Zeus-ähnlich o. sein Gegenspieler/

Zeus schickt sein Bruder Epimetheus (= "hindsight" = literally "hind-thought," but in the manner of a fool looking backwards, while running forward/foolish)

Epimetheus (schaut nach hinten/Öffnet die Dose des Pandora) Buddha Prometheus (schaut nach vorne/besorgt die Menschheit das Feuer)

 

Mythos:

Thwarted in his revenge against the crafty and rebellious Prometheus, Zeus now took direct action against him and ordered Hermes to carry him to Mt Caucasus and there, with

the help of Hephaistos, bind him with cruel chains to the rocks where he would be exposed to the eternal torment of having his liver devoured each day by a long-winged eagle. Each night his liver would regenerate, so that his anguish was without end. It is said that where the blood from his terrible wound soaked the ground the poisonous herb Aconitum sprang to life.

 (The myth clearly varies based on the source.)

Of general agreement seems to be the desire of Prometheus to help man in opposition to the powers that be and of his punishment as a result of this.  Below is one version) 

The Prometheus myth first appeared in the late 8th century BC Greek epic poet Hesiod's Theogony (lines 507–616). He was a son of the Titan Iapetus by Clymene, one of

the Oceanids. He was brother to Menoetius, Atlas, and Epimetheus. In the Theogony, Hesiod introduces Prometheus as a lowly challenger to Zeus's omniscience and omnipotence.

In the trick at Mecone, a sacrificial meal marking the "settling of accounts" between mortals and immortals, Prometheus played a trick against Zeus (545–557). He placed two sacrificial offerings before the Olympian: a selection of beef hidden inside an ox's stomach (nourishment hidden inside a displeasing exterior), and the bull's bones wrapped completely in "glistening fat" (something inedible hidden inside a pleasing exterior). Zeus chose the latter, setting a precedent for future sacrifices.

Henceforth, humans would keep that meat for themselves and burn the bones wrapped in fat as an offering to the gods. This angered Zeus, who hid fire from humans in retribution. In this version of the myth, the use of fire was already known to humans, but withdrawn by Zeus. Prometheus, however, stole back fire in a giant fennel-stalk and restored it to mankind. This further enraged Zeus, who sent Pandora, the first woman, to live with men. Pandora was fashioned by Hephaestus out of clay and brought to life by the four winds, with all the goddesses of Olympus assembled to adorn her. "From her is the race of women and female kind," Hesiod writes; "of her is the deadly race and tribe of women

who live amongst mortal men to their great trouble, no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth."

Prometheus, in eternal punishment, is chained to a rock in the Caucasus, Kazbek Mountain, where his liver is eaten daily by an eagle, only to be regenerated by night, due to his immortality. Years later, the Greek hero Heracles (Hercules) slays the eagle and frees Prometheus from his chains. Hesiod revisits the story of Prometheus in the Works and Days (lines 42–105). Here, the poet expands upon Zeus's reaction to the theft of fire. Not only does Zeus withhold fire from men, but "the means of life," as well. Had Prometheus not provoked Zeus's wrath (44–47), "you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working; soon would you put away your rudder over the

smoke, and the fields worked by ox and sturdy mule would run to waste." Hesiod also expands upon the Theogony's story of the first woman, now explicitly called Pandora

("all gifts"). After Prometheus' theft of fire, Zeus sent Pandora in retaliation. Despite Prometheus' warning, Epimetheus accepted this "gift" from the gods. Pandora carried a jar

with her, from which were released (91–92) "evils, harsh pain and troublesome diseases which give men death". Pandora shut the lid of the jar too late to contain all the evil plights that escaped, but foresight remained in the jar, giving mankind hope.

Angelo Casanova, Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Florence, finds in Prometheus a reflection of an ancient, pre-Hesiodic trickster-figure, who served to account

for the mixture of good and bad in human life, and whose fashioning of men from clay was an Eastern motif familiar in Enuma Elish; as an opponent of Zeus he was an analogue

of the Titans, and like them was punished. As an advocate for humanity he gains semi-divine status at Athens, where the episode in Theogony in which he is liberated, is interpreted by Casanova as a post-Hesiodic interpolation.

Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound, perhaps the most famous treatment of the myth to be found among the Greek tragedies, is traditionally attributed to the 5th century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus. At the center of the drama are the results of Prometheus' theft of fire and his current punishment by Zeus; the playwright's dependence on the Hesiodic source material

is clear, though Prometheus Bound also includes a number of changes to the received tradition.

Before his theft of fire, Prometheus played a decisive role in the Titanomachy, securing victory for Zeus and the other Olympians. Zeus's torture of Prometheus thus becomes a particularly harsh betrayal. The scope and character of Prometheus' transgressions against Zeus are also widened. In addition to giving humankind fire, Prometheus claims to have taught them the arts of civilization, such as writing, mathematics, agriculture, medicine, and science.

The Titan's greatest benefaction for humankind seems to have been saving them from complete destruction.

In an apparent twist on the myth of the so-called “Five Ages of Man” (In N.Amerika know the Navaho Indianer 5 Worlds) found in Hesiod's Works and Days (wherein Cronus

and, later, Zeus created and destroyed five successive races of mortal men), Prometheus asserts that Zeus had wanted to obliterate the human race, but that he somehow stopped him.

Moreover, Aeschylus anachronistically and artificially injects Io, another victim of Zeus's violence and ancestor of Heracles, into Prometheus' story. Finally, just as Aeschylus gave Prometheus a key role in bringing Zeus to power, he also attributed to him secret knowledge that could lead to Zeus's downfall: Prometheus had been told by his mother Gaia of

a potential marriage that would produce a son who would overthrow Zeus. Fragmentary evidence indicates that Heracles, as in Hesiod, frees the Titan in the trilogy's second play, Prometheus Unbound. It is apparently not until Prometheus reveals this secret of Zeus's potential downfall that the two reconcile in the final play, Prometheus the Fire-Bringer

or Prometheus Pyrphoros, a lost tragedy by Aeschylus.

Prometheus Bound also includes two mythic innovations of omission. The first is the absence of Pandora's story in connection with Prometheus' own. Instead, Aeschylus includes this one oblique allusion to Pandora and her jar that contained Hope: "[Prometheus] caused blind hopes to live in the hearts of men." Second, Aeschylus makes no mention of the sacrifice-trick played against Zeus in the Theogony.

These innovations reflect the play's thematic reversal of the Hesiodic myth[citation needed]. In Hesiod, the story of Prometheus (and, by extension, of Pandora) serves to rein

force the theodicy of Zeus: he is a wise and just ruler of the universe, while Prometheus is to blame for humanity's unenviable existence[citation needed]. In Prometheus Bound,

this dynamic is transposed: Prometheus becomes the benefactor of humanity, while every character in the drama (except for Hermes, a virtual stand-in for Zeus) decries the Olympian as a cruel, vicious tyrant.

 

The centaur Cheiron would take on Prometheus' suffering/die in his place.

In der griechischen Mythologie gibt es eine Gestalt, nämlich den Prometheus (der Vorbedachte), der die psychologische Lycopodium. geschichte spiegelt. Prometheus ist ein

Titan aus dem alten Geschlecht, und da er voraus denkt, sieht er den Aufstand der Olympier um Zeus voraus und schlägt sich auf deren Seite. Das verbindet ihn mit dem

Gewächs Lycopodium, das einstmals vor Millionen Jahren ein 40 m hoher Baum war. Nach dem geologischen Umsturz, wie auch der Umwälzung bei den Göttern, spielte der einstige Titan nicht mehr eine so bedeutende Rolle. Er zeigte sich dem Zeus zwar hilfreich, aber er ging auch seine eigenen Wege. Der Ursprung des Menschengeschlechtes

(die kleinen Menschen) soll auf ihn zurückgehen und da er ständig bemüht war, seine Schöpfung zu unterstützen mit der Vermittlung des Schmiedens, der Landwirtschaft

usw. wurden die Menschen in Zeus' Augen zu mächtig. Der erste große Konflikt zwischen Prometheus, der jetzt eher eine Jugendlichenposition (vielleicht der älteste Bruder) innehat, und dem himmlischen Vater-Gott entsteht, als es darum geht, was bei einem von den Menschen zu errichtenden Tieropfer den Göttern zukommt. Prometheus überlistet Zeus, so dass den Göttern für alle Zukunft die Knochen und das Fett zukommt, während die Menschen die Innereien und das Muskelfleisch erhalten. Zeus, darüber sehr erzürnt, verweigert den Menschen das Feuer. Prometheus aber, der zu Athene ein gutes Verhältnis hat, entführt mit ihrer Hilfe das Feuer und bringt es den Menschen. Prometheus

gebraucht Ferulastiele um das Feuer für die Menschheit zu schmuggeln.

Zeus' Rache an der Sohnfigur ist grausam. Er kettet den Prometheus an den kaukasischen Felsen. Tagsüber wird der Gefesselte von dem Zeus-Adler heimgesucht, der seine

Leber frisst, die nachts wieder regeneriert. Also auch hier, im griechischen Mythos, in dem sich ein unbewältigter Vater-Sohn-Konfliktes spiegelt, liegt eine Leberschwäche vor. Obwohl Prometheus mythologisch als der Ältere gilt, gibt es zwischen ihm und Zeus ein deutliches Machtgefälle. Er wird der Vaterfigur Zeus zu mächtig und wird grausam

in seine Schranken gewiesen. Die Titanen, bis auf Prometheus und Epimetheus in den Tartarus verbannt, hatten noch etwas von der Weisheit der Alten Zeit, die in die olympische "Gegenwart" reichte. Zeus stand symbolisch für das neue Zeitalter, während Prometheus als Titan aus der magischen Welt stammte und sicher noch mehr Verbindung mit der

ganzen Welt hatte. So wie auch der wachsende Sohn, der noch viel Ganzheit in sich trägt, bemerkt, auf welch dünnen Pfaden sich der väterliche Intellekt bewegt und dem

Vater aus einer scheinbaren Überlegenheit begegnet. Prometheus hält sich nicht an Zeus' Gesetze und muss 30.000 Jahre an den Ketten hängen. Lycopodium hat viel mit Recht, Gesetz und Ordnung zu tun. Ob Lycopodium-Menschen je Gesetze brechen werden, mag offen bleiben.

Proteus, the prophetic old man of the sea, was said to rise from the flood at midday and sleep in the shadow of the rocks of the coast, surrounded by the monsters of the deep. Anyone who wished him to tell the future had to catch hold of him at noon. He would change his shape at will in order to escape the necessity of prophesying, but when he

saw that he was beaten, he would resume his original form and tell the truth, whereafter he would return to the sea (Smith, 1867).

 

[Marysia Kratimenos/David Lilley]

Prometheus, a Titan, a demigod, was the Lucifer of the Greeks, who, like his Biblical counterpart, suffered a terrible fate. In the War of the Titans, he and his brother Epimetheus supported Zeus and his brothers against their father Kronos. On his triumph, Zeus became the almighty God of Olympus and the sky, yet set great store by the cunning wisdom

of his Titan henchman.

A dispute arose amongst the inhabitants of Sicyon over which portions of a sacrificial bull would be the most pleasing to the gods. Prometheus was invited to act as arbiter.

His loyalty was always first towards mankind, especially if it permitted him to outwit the Olympians. His nature was full of mischief, trickery and opportunism. He forthwith sacrificed two bulls and filled their skins, one with all the bones artfully hidden beneath a rich layer of fat, and the other with all the flesh, but concealed beneath the stomach and other organs, which he knew to be least tempting to the divine palate. He then asked the Father of the Gods which of the two skins he would accept as an offering.

Trusting him, Zeus became the dupe of his artifice and chose the bones. In his anger at the deceit, Zeus, knowing of Prometheus’ sympathies, exacted punishment by withholding fire from mankind. “Let them eat their flesh raw!” he cried out. To this day, the only remedy appearing in the homeopathic repertory of symptoms under the rubric –

“desire for raw meat”- is Phosphorus!

The theft of fire

Then, Prometheus took pity on mankind. With the assistance of the goddess Athene, he gained access to Olympus, the dwelling place of the gods, and lit a torch at the fiery

chariot of the Sun.

He broke off a fragment of the burning charcoal and enclosed it within a stalk of giant fennel. Thus concealed, he conveyed the brand to mankind and furthermore committed himself to teaching them all the arts, crafts and skills necessary to enrich their civilisation.

Zeus was enraged at this flagrant transgression and swore vengeance. He caused Hephaistos, the divine artisan and God of the Forge, to fabricate from clay the most beautiful woman ever created, the Four Winds to breath life into her, and each of the gods and goddesses to endow her with irresistible qualities, but only after he had charged Hermes,

the God of Guile and Trickery, to give her a selfish, fickle, shameless mind, filled with vanity and an idle, acquisitive, deceitful nature.

Pandora’s box

Zeus named her Pandora = every-gift, and entrusted to her care a beautiful box that she was ordered to give to the man who married her. With Hermes as guide, Zeus sent her

down to Prometheus - a gift from the gods! Prometheus, whose name means forethought, was sensible of the deceit, and without allowing himself to be captivated by her charms, sent her away.

His brother Epimetheus, whose name means afterthought, was not possessed of the same prudence and sagacity. Soon, besotted by her beauty and deaf to his brother’s entreaties,

he married Pandora. Fearing the worst, Prometheus made him vow to keep the box sealed, but it was not long before Pandora bewitched him into satisfying her cat-like curiosity

by opening the forbidden box. Out flew the malicious Spites -Lust, Vice, Passion, Sickness, Strife, Insanity, Travail and Senility- which stung the foolish pair on every part of their bodies and then dispersed all over the world to beset the entire race of mortals. Only delusive Hope remained behind, able to ease the labours of humanity and to render the troubles and sorrows of life less painful.

An immortal liver

Thwarted in his revenge against the crafty and rebellious Prometheus, Zeus now took direct action against him and ordered Hermes to carry him to Mt Caucasus and there, with

the help of Hephaistos, bind him with cruel chains to the rocks where he would be exposed to the eternal torment of having his liver devoured each day by a long-winged eagle. Each night his liver would regenerate, so that his anguish was without end. It is said that where the blood from his terrible wound soaked the ground the poisonous herb Aconitum sprang to life.

After 30 years had passed, the hero, Herakles, freed him from his torments by breaking his chains and killing the eagle with an arrow. The wise centaur, Cheiron, finally brought reconciliation between Zeus and the Titan and later, longing for death to put an end to his trials, he bequeathed his own immortality to Prometheus, who was thus able to take his place among the gods.

These interlinking myths reveal pro­found concepts laid down as patterns in the collective unconscious and require interpretation for us to be able to grasp their deeper meaning.

In both the nature of Prometheus and Pandora and in the contents of the box, emotional and clinical characteristics of the Phosphorus archetype are revealed. On a purely physical level, an ancient and remarkable intuitive knowledge becomes evident. The toxicity of both Phosphorus and Magnesium impacts especially upon the liver and Aconitum is the first remedy for hepatitis and the onset of jaundice.

The price of intellectual arrogance

Prometheus was a Titan and, like his entire race, imbued with the spirit of revolt and rebellion. Both he and Lucifer transgressed against the godhead by stealing the divine fire of reason and intellect

from heaven and giving this awareness and understanding to humanity. In both myths, the consciousness that is bestowed does not represent spiritual understanding, which employs this spark from the divine fire as a torch to light the way to spiritual attainment; it represents the arrogance of the egotistic intellect, which exults in its own cleverness, and uses the spark for its own self-gratification and exaltation.

The light of materialistic reasoning, scientific rationalism, arouses man from the childlike, unconscious innocence of paradise and releases him from servitude to the instinctive, animal will but also liberates him from obedience to natural law. The price is the eternal torment of Prometheus. His liver, a third chakra organ, is the target of the devouring intellect personified by the eagle. During the day, when the intellect holds sway, it is destroyed; during the night when the intuitive powers surface, it is restored.

 

[Klaus Löbisch]

Ich jedenfalls hatte meine Zeit, in der ich mit einen causticum-mercurialen Zug nicht immer mit legalen Mitteln die Welt verändern wollte. Zwischen Zeus und Prometheus gibt es eine klare Hierarchie, und es gibt auch das indirekte Durchsetzen eigener Vorstellungen; insbesondere dann, wenn die anderen als zu mächtig eingestuft werden. Diesen Zug kann ich auch in mir wieder finden. Kann ich jemanden auf einem Schlachtfeld nicht besiegen, weil ich meinen Waffengang nicht geübt habe, dann versuche ich eine andere Möglichkeit, mich durchzusetzen.

Noch etwas anderes will Zeus dem Gefesselten entlocken. Prometheus weiß, wer den olympischen Vater stürzen wird und behält sein Geheimnis. Es wird jener Halbgott Jesus sein, der mit einer Leberwunde am Kreuz stirbt, der die Bedeutung und damit den Sturz der Olympier besiegelt.

Prometheus schafft Menschen/= Lehrer der Menschen/= Trickster/= Zeus-ähnlich o. sein Gegenspieler/Zeus schickt ihn (o. Bruder) Pandora und damit die Strafen der Menschheit. Preometheus erschafft Mensch aus Asche des Zagreus (= Gutes) und Asche der Titanen (= Böses)

The centaur Cheiron would take on Prometheus' suffering/die in his place.

Cheiron gibt seine Unsterblichkeit auf, wegen seinem Leiden, erlöst Prometheus. (Vorgänger von Jezus?). hat mit Cent-u. eine von außen zugefügte Fußwunde geheilt, bringt Gesundheit/Reichtum/

Schutz (Blitz). Eisenhut. (= Aconitum napellus): Einer Sage der griechischen Antike zufolge, wuchs der erste Eisen-, oder Sturmhut an der Stelle, an der das Blut des Prometheus auf den Felsen tropfte, nachdem der Adler seine Leber zerhackt hatte (Gallwitz 1992). Eine der wichtigsten Pflanzen im tantrischen Arzneischatz. Lunge, Nerven, Herz. Sedativum, Erkältungen, Husten, Neuralgien, Herzbeschwerden.

„Der wiedergeborene Prometheus" ist vielleicht die passendste Beschreibung von Tritium, wenn man an den griechischen Mythos von Prometheus denkt, der Feuer aus dem Himmel stahl und von den Göttern für diese Heldentat mit ewigem Leiden bestraft wurde.

The myth of Prometheus Bound is also of interest to us. Prometheus was punished by Zeus and was chained on Mount Caucasus by Hephaestus with the help of State and Force. An eagle ate from Prometheus’s liver every day, and every night Prometheus was reborn. However, why did Zeus punish him? In Aeschylus’s play “Prometheus Bound” Prometheus himself gives the answer in the following dialogue.

Proteus, herding the seals. and other marine live-stock of Neptune/Poseidon (the sea-god), capable of assuming any form that pleased him (as Merkur)/er kann Weissagen.x, aber entzieht sich durch

Gestaltwandlung die Fragen.

In der griechischen Mythologie gibt es eine Gestalt, nämlich den Prometheus (der Vorbedachte), der die psychologische Lycopodium Geschichte spiegelt. Prometheus ist ein Titan aus dem alten Geschlecht, und da er voraus denkt, sieht er den Aufstand der Olympier um Zeus voraus und schlägt sich auf deren Seite. Das verbindet ihn mit dem Gewächs Lycopodium, das einstmals vor Millionen Jahren ein 40 m hoher Baum war. Nach dem geologischen Umsturz, wie auch der Umwälzung bei den Göttern, spielte der einstige Titan nicht mehr eine so bedeutende Rolle. Er zeigte sich dem Zeus zwar hilfreich, aber er ging auch seine eigenen Wege.

Der Ursprung des Menschengeschlechtes (die kleinen Menschen) soll auf ihn zurückgehen und da er ständig bemüht war, seine Schöpfung zu unterstützen mit der Vermittlung des Schmiedens,

der Landwirtschaft usw. wurden die Menschen in Zeus' Augen zu mächtig. Der erste große Konflikt zwischen Prometheus, der jetzt eher eine Jugendlichenposition (vielleicht der älteste Bruder)

inne hat, und dem himmlischen Vater-Gott entsteht, als es darum geht, was bei einem von den Menschen zu errichtenden Tieropfer den Göttern zukommt. Prometheus überlistet Zeus, so dass den Göttern für alle Zukunft die Knochen und das Fett zukommt, während die Menschen die Innereien und das Muskelfleisch erhalten. Zeus, darüber sehr erzürnt, verweigert den Menschen das Feuer. Prometheus aber, der zu Athene ein gutes Verhältnis hat, entführt mit ihrer Hilfe das Feuer und bringt es den Menschen.

Zeus' Rache an der Sohnfigur ist grausam. Er kettet den Prometheus an den kaukasischen Felsen. Tagsüber wird der Gefesselte von dem Zeus-Adler heimgesucht, der seine Leber frisst, die nachts wieder regeneriert. Also auch hier, im griechischen Mythos, in dem sich ein unbewältigter Vater-Sohn-Konfliktes spiegelt, liegt eine Leberschwäche vor. Obwohl Prometheus mythologisch als der Ältere gilt, gibt es zwischen ihm und Zeus ein deutliches Machtgefälle. Er wird der Vaterfigur Zeus zu mächtig und wird grausam in seine Schranken gewiesen. Die Titanen, bis auf Prometheus

und Epimetheus in den Tartarus verbannt, hatten noch etwas von der Weisheit der Alten Zeit, die in die olympische "Gegenwart" reichte. Zeus stand symbolisch für das neue Zeitalter, während Prometheus als Titan aus der magischen Welt stammte und sicher noch mehr Verbindung mit der ganzen Welt hatte. So wie auch der wachsende Sohn, der noch viel Ganzheit in sich trägt, bemerkt, auf welch dünnen Pfaden sich der väterliche Intellekt bewegt und dem Vater aus einer scheinbaren Überlegenheit begegnet.

Prometheus hält sich nicht an Zeus' Gesetze und muss 30.000 Jahre an den Ketten hängen. Lyc. hat viel mit Recht, Gesetz und Ordnung zu tun. Ob Lyc. je Gesetze brechen wird, mag offen bleiben. Ich jedenfalls hatte meine Zeit, in der ich mit einen causticum-mercurialen Zug nicht immer mit legalen Mitteln die Welt verändern wollte. Zwischen Zeus und Prometheus gibt es eine klare Hierarchie, und es gibt auch das indirekte Durchsetzen eigener Vorstellungen; insbesondere dann, wenn die anderen als zu mächtig eingestuft werden.

Diesen Zug kann ich auch in mir wieder finden. Kann ich jemanden auf einem Schlachtfeld nicht besiegen, weil ich meinen Waffengang nicht geübt habe, dann versuche ich eine andere Möglichkeit, mich durchzusetzen.

Noch etwas anderes will Zeus dem Gefesselten entlocken. Prometheus weiß, wer den olympischen Vater stürzen wird und behält sein Geheimnis. Es wird jener Halbgott Jesus sein, der mit einer Leberwunde am Kreuz stirbt, der die Bedeutung und damit den Sturz der Olympier besiegelt.

Der Phlegmatiker dagegen pflegt auf der Nachtseite des Lebens zu stehen. Er verzichtet zu Gunsten des bewahrenden Prinzips, analog der aufbauenden Stoffwechselfunktion der Leber, auf die Durchsetzung seiner Ich-Vorstellungen. Diese Beziehung von Cholerik und Phlegma zur Tag- und Nachtseite des Lebens spiegelt die Prometheussage wider:

Prometheus schafft der erste Mensch. Prometheus brachte den Menschen das Feuer vom Himmel auf die Erde (das Feuer symbolisiert das Ich-Bewußtsein des Menschen). Dafür wird er von den Göttern zur Strafe an einen Felsen des Kaukasus geschmiedet (er wird somit gleichsam an die körperliche Daseinsform gebunden). Täglich kommt von nun an ein Adler und nagt an seiner Leber (der Adler ist ein Symbol für die energiezehrenden Tätigkeiten des Ich). Die Leber ist aber ausgesprochen regenerationsfreudig. Besonders nachts, in der Zeit, in der unser Ich ruht, findet eine Regeneration der Leber und damit ein vegetativer Aufbau statt. Und so wächst die vom Adler angefressene Leber in der Nacht jedesmal wieder nach.

Another legend tells that Aconite originated from Prometheus' blood dripping on the rocks when the eagle devoured his liver. Prometheus' name means forethought. As a descendant of the Titans,

he symbolizes a revolt of the spirit, the spirit which, if it cannot make itself the equal of the divine intellect, at least tries to steal a few sparks of its light. This is not a quest of the spirit for its own sake, along the path of gradual self-spiritualization, but the use of the spirit for purposes of self-gratification. The rebellious intellect chooses the material in preference to the spiritual. By unleashing material cravings, liberation becomes imprisonment in matter. The price that the divine helper pays for his gift to mankind - fire - is grief, destruction and being forever chained. Yet, he personifies the unconquerable will opposing greater power, confident of the ultimate triumph of his cause.

As the Promethean complex it exemplifies all those tendencies which impel us to know as much as our fathers, more than our fathers, as much as our teachers, more than our teachers. In perfecting

our objective knowledge, the Prometheus complex is the Oedipus complex of the life of the intellect. "The serpent, like Prometheus, initiates development at the price of suffering, for consciousness brings with it knowledge of the tragic fate of every human life - the inevitability of death. Pain, suffering, and death exist in the absence of consciousness, it is true, but if there is no consciousness

to experience them, then they do not exist psychologically.

Without consciousness, life is a state of anaesthesia. Accordingly, Prometheus suffers the eagle's visit to gnaw at his liver during the daytime [consciousness], and the wound heals up at night [unconsciousness].

During the night we all return to that original unconscious wholeness out of which we [and the ego] were born. In this way, the ills and traumas of the day are healed by the sleep that 'knits up the unraveled sleeve of care'."

Cheiron gibt seine Unsterblichkeit auf, wegen seinem Leiden und erlöst Prometheus. (Vorgänger von Jezus?)

Diese Beziehung von Cholerik und Phlegma zur Tag- und Nachtseite des Lebens spiegelt die Prometheus. sage wider.

Der Choleriker lebt deswegen ganz auf der Tagseite des Lebens. Sein Bestreben gilt der Durchsetzung seiner Ich-Vorstellungen. Dies erfordert einen Verbrauch seiner Lebensenergie, analog der abbauenden Funktion der Gallensäuren.

Der Phlegmatiker dagegen pflegt auf der Nachtseite des Lebens zu stehen. Er verzichtet zu Gunsten des bewahrenden Prinzips, analog der aufbauenden Stoffwechselfunktion der Leber, auf die Durchsetzung seiner Ich-Vorstellungen.

Diese Beziehung von Cholerik und Phlegma zur Tag und Nachtseite des Lebens spiegelt die Prometheussage wider.

Es zeigt sich also, dass es in der Therapie wichtig ist, den Choleriker auf sanfte Weise zu mehr Ruhe und Gelassenheit zu bewegen, dagegen beim Phlegmatiker/Melancholiker Aktivität und mehr "Biss" zu erzeugen.

 

[Dr. George Loukas]

Prometheus was punished by Zeus and was chained on Mount Caucasus by Hephaestus with the help of State and Force. An eagle ate from Prometheus’s liver every day, and every night Prometheus was reborn. However, why did Zeus punish him? In Aeschylus’s play “Prometheus Bound” Prometheus himself gives the answer in the following dialogue:

CHORUS:

Prometheus, I would need to be made of stone to ignore your torments. I wish I had not seen your suffering. It breaks my heart to see you.

PROMETHEUS:

Grief I bring to those who cast their eyes upon me.

CHORUS:

Have you advanced more than you said?

PROMETHEUS:

Yes, I saved men from fear of death.

CHORUS:

What remedy for this disease have you found for them?

PROMETHEUS:

False hopes I have put into their hearts.

CHORUS:

A great gift you gave to men.

PROMETHEUS:

Fire I also gave them.

CHORUS:

Men have fire now.

PROMETHEUS:

Fire, that will bring them knowledge.

CHORUS:

And it was for giving these gifts that Zeus -

PROMETHEUS:

Torments me, and will never set me free.

CHORUS:

Never? No end is fixed for your suffering?

PROMETHEUS:

None, unless he chooses.

 

Prometheus symbolizes the human race. He was deprived of his freedom by Hephaestus, who is the God of invention, the God of technology, by State, who is the God of authority and by Force, who is the Goddess of arbitrary and unjust power. But why was he deprived of his freedom? Because “he tried with a remedy to free himself from the fear of death ...”

Volumes of books have been written and more may well be written on this subject. It is not my intention to expand on this issue here. I may deal with this in a future lecture. I would only like to highlight some aspects that I believe are relevant to psoric miasma.

The first aspect is that the cause of Prometheus’s suffering is the “false” freedom from the fear of death. This freedom is associated with the gift of fire. Our civilization is the result of the knowledge of “fire”, in its metaphorical sense. What drove man towards science? Was it perhaps the fear of death? Does science solve man’s deepest problems or does it simply deceive him “by putting in his heart false hopes?” Is our civilization a source of happiness or a source of unhappiness for us?

The second aspect is the one associated with the three deities, who chained Prometheus on Mount Caucasus. The technology of every era (Hephaestus) “bewitches” people. It does not matter if it is the space satellite of the 20th century or the best made chariot of ancient times. The technology of every era is what marks that era. Its achievements constitute the dream of many people. However, at the same time it binds people to a certain way of life. Our social image and our acceptance by society is influenced by the technological achievements. A good car raises our social status. An individual who cannot acquire a car feels ashamed because he considers himself not well established socially.

The law (State) is another factor that influences us. The average person does not want to oppose the law even when it is unjust. Imprisonment makes us feel ashamed, despite the fact that a lot of heroes or important historical figures have been imprisoned by their opponents.

The average person is also afraid of arbitrary and unjust power (Force) in the hands of people who are in positions of authority. The average person makes sure he minds his own business and does not oppose these powerful people so that he does not get himself into trouble.

The symbolism of the eagle, that eats Prometheus’s liver, is also interesting. The eagle is a symbol of power. The liver is an organ, which in antiquity was connected with the function of man’s will (like the brain with the intellect and the heart with feelings). Thus, the eating of the liver is related to man’s eroded will, to his contraction caused by his fantasized opposition to Hephaestus, to State and to Force. Of course it is not accidental that all this happens in daylight, because during the day “nothing stays hidden under the sun’s light”.

For Plato the battle against ignorance through the appropriate education and the emancipation of the individual from anger and desire is of great importance. In The Republic, Plato states that desire accompanied by intense emotional movement (hypersensitivity) can disturb the individual’s inner harmony and his ability to function in society. He also believed that when death approaches nobody wants to die.

The Stoic philosophers taught that the equilibrium of the individual cannot be affected by external factors. No threat or punishment to the body can be powerful enough to change the individual’s deepest sense of freedom or alter his value system. In a psychotherapeutic way they tried to help the individual focus on the fundamental human values and free him from the opinions of society. In this way the individual freed himself from the agony and the anxiety of being accepted by society and considered society rather than himself responsible for accepting him.

For the Stoics it was also important that man overcame his fear of death. To do this the individual was helped to focus on the idea of death, cultivating at the same time his self-control and to accept that it is not death itself that is fearful but rather the fear of death.

They accepted, however, that death, life, pleasure and pain were primary states of being for man. However, these primary states of being are “indifferent” and “involuntary” for man. Thus, the Stoics recognised that the concept of death had a serious affect on the human psyche but man had to consider death as “indifferent” and “involuntary”, as a final attempt to preserve his inner unity and inner peace. These views are important because they show that the concept of the unconscious was not unknown to the ancient Greeks.

Lucritius, was a Roman poet, who lived around 95 to 55 BC. He wrote a philosophical epic called “On the nature of things”, which for many is an account of Epicure’s theory of the cosmos. Following his own psychotherapeutic method Lucritius believed that the main cause of psychic inertia is the fear of death. This fear immobilizes the individual’s mind and soul and inhibits all the incentives and hopes for inner growth. He believed that if the individual came to terms with death and was freed from the anxiety and the fear, then the return of hope and the expectation of a more fulfilling and happier inner life would re-establish his suppressed creativity as well as his inner peace and harmony.

Oedipus, in Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” is also interesting. The myth goes as follows:

Laius, the king of Thebes, married Jocasta, the daughter of Menoeceus and sister of Creon. Since they could not have children they consulted the Delphic Oracle. They were told that their child would kill its father. Afraid of the oracle, Laius decided to have the baby put to death as soon as it was born. He had the infant’s ankles pierced and riveted together and he ordered a shepherd to abandon it on Mount Cithaeron. The shepherd feeling sorry for the infant, did not abandon it on the mountain but gave it instead to the childless king and queen of Corinth, Polybus and Meropy. They called him Oedipus (swollen foot) and raised him as their own child.

When Oedipus grew up, because it was suggested to him by many that he was illegitimate, he went to Delphi to discover his true origin. It was not revealed to him who his real parents were, but he was told that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus, believing that his parents were the king and queen of Corinth and in order to prevent the prophecy from coming true, does not return to Corinth but instead goes to Phocis. On the way he meets Laius, the king of Thebes, his real father, who was on his way to Delphi. There was an argument between Oedipus and Laius’s charioteer and unknowingly Oedipus kills his father, Laius, and his attendants except one who informs the people of Thebes about the incident. Creon, his real mother’s brother, becomes the king of Thebes.

At that time a great evil falls upon the people of Thebes. The Sphinx, a human-like monster, who sat on Mount Phicio, forced travellers to answer a riddle and killed the ones that could not do so. King Creon announced that whoever freed the country from the monster would become the king of Thebes and marry his sister, Jocasta. This was the riddle:

“Four legs in the morning, two at noon

Three legs again in the evening

Walks on land and doesn’t sink in sea

Strongest with two legs, weakest with four-

What is it?”

Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx by replying that the answer is man and therefore he frees Thebes form this monster. As a reward Creon gives him the throne and his sister, Jocasta, as his wife. Oedipus marries her without knowing that he is her son. They have four children. A few prosperous years go by. The Gods, however, have not forgotten Oedipus’s sinful deeds even though he has committed them unwillingly and unknowingly. In order to punish him Thebes is struck by a plague.

Oedipus sends Creon to consult the Oracle on how the city could be saved. The answer was that the one who had killed Laius should be killed or exiled.

Oedipus goes to the blind prophet Teiresias who hints at Oedipus’s errors and foretells his future misfortunes.

In the end after a series of adventures and efforts by Oedipus the truth is revealed. Jocasta hangs herself and Oedipus blinds himself.

The riddle of the Sphinx is of course related to the ages of man from birth to old age and death. Laius’s murder symbolizes the beginning of lack of awareness, the marriage with Jocasta desire.

Finally, it is not accidental that in our religion Passion Week is always in spring when Christ and through him the whole of Humanity relives every year the intense eroticism of Spring and at the same

time the drama of the Calvary.

Prometheus erschafft Mensch aus Asche des Zagreus (= Gutes) und Asche der Titanen (= Böses) hat als Auftrag die Tiere ihre Eigenschaften zuzuteilen, als er bei dem Mensch kam war nicht mehr übrig, darum stahl er das Feuer (gebraucht dafür Ferulastängel) und gab es den Menschen/dafür wird Prometheus bestraft durch Ankettung an dem Kaukasus, wo einen Adler ihm jeden Tag der Leber weg frass/Herakles erlöst ihm aus diesen Zustand. Prometheus brachte den Menschen das Feuer vom Himmel auf die Erde (das Feuer symbolisiert das Ich-Bewusstsein des Menschen).

Dafür wird er von den Göttern zur Strafe an einen Felsen des Kaukasus geschmiedet (er wird somit gleichsam an die körperliche Daseinsform gebunden). Täglich kommt von nun an ein Adler und nagt an seiner Leber (der Adler ist ein Symbol für die Energie zehrenden Tätigkeiten des Ich).

Die Leber ist aber ausgesprochen regenerationsfreudig. Besonders nachts, in der Zeit, in der unser Ich ruht, findet eine Regeneration der Leber und damit ein vegetativer Aufbau statt. Und so wächst die vom Adler angefressene Leber in der Nacht jedesmal wieder nach.

 

Prometheus (= "foresight" = literally "fore-thought"/ingenious/clever) erschafft Menschen/= Lehrer der Menschen/= Trickster./= Zeus-ähnlich o. sein Gegenspieler/Zeus schickt sein Bruder Epimetheus

(= "hindsight" = literally "hind-thought," but in the manner of a fool looking backwards, while running forward/foolish).

The centaur Cheiron would take on Prometheus' suffering/die in his place.

In der griechischen Mythologie gibt es eine Gestalt, nämlich den Prometheus (der Vorbedachte), der die psychologische Lycopodium geschichte spiegelt. Prometheus ist ein Titan aus dem alten Geschlecht, und da er voraus denkt, sieht er den Aufstand der Olympier um Zeus voraus und schlägt sich auf deren Seite. Das verbindet ihn mit dem Gewächs Lycopodium, das einstmals vor Millionen Jahren ein 40 m hoher Baum war. Nach dem geologischen Umsturz, wie auch der Umwälzung bei den Göttern, spielte der einstige Titan nicht mehr eine so bedeutende Rolle. Er zeigte sich dem Zeus zwar hilfreich, aber er ging auch seine eigenen Wege. Der Ursprung des Menschengeschlechtes (die kleinen Menschen) soll auf ihn zurückgehen und da er ständig bemüht war, seine Schöpfung zu unterstützen mit der Vermittlung des Schmiedens, der Landwirtschaft usw. wurden die Menschen in Zeus' Augen zu mächtig. Der erste große Konflikt zwischen Prometheus, der jetzt eher eine Jugendlichenposition (vielleicht der älteste Bruder) innehat, und dem himmlischen Vater-Gott entsteht, als es darum geht, was bei einem von den Menschen zu errichtenden Tieropfer den Göttern zukommt. Prometheus überlistet Zeus, so dass den Göttern für alle Zukunft die Knochen und das Fett zukommt, während die Menschen die Innereien und das Muskelfleisch erhalten. Zeus, darüber sehr erzürnt, verweigert den Menschen das Feuer. Prometheus aber, der zu Athene ein gutes Verhältnis hat, entführt mit ihrer Hilfe das Feuer und bringt es den Menschen.

Zeus' Rache an der Sohnfigur ist grausam. Er kettet den Prometheus an den kaukasischen Felsen. Tagsüber wird der Gefesselte von dem Zeus-Adler heimgesucht, der seine Leber frisst, die nachts wieder regeneriert. Also auch hier, im griechischen Mythos, in dem sich ein unbewältigter Vater-Sohn-Konfliktes spiegelt, liegt eine Leberschwäche vor. Obwohl Prometheus mythologisch als der Ältere gilt, gibt es zwischen ihm und Zeus ein deutliches Machtgefälle. Er wird der Vaterfigur Zeus zu mächtig und wird grausam in seine Schranken gewiesen. Die Titanen, bis auf Prometheus und Epimetheus in den Tartarus verbannt, hatten noch etwas von der Weisheit der Alten Zeit, die in die olympische "Gegenwart" reichte. Zeus stand symbolisch für das neue Zeitalter, während Prometheus als Titan aus der magischen Welt stammte und sicher noch mehr Verbindung mit der ganzen Welt hatte.

So wie auch der wachsende Sohn, der noch viel Ganzheit in sich trägt, bemerkt, auf welch dünnen Pfaden sich der väterliche Intellekt bewegt und dem Vater aus einer scheinbaren Überlegenheit begegnet.

Prometheus hält sich nicht an Zeus' Gesetze und muss 30.000 Jahre an den Ketten hängen. Lycopodium hat viel mit Recht, Gesetz und Ordnung zu tun. Ob Lycopodium-Menschen je Gesetze brechen werden, mag offen bleiben.

Ich jedenfalls hatte meine Zeit, in der ich mit einen causticum-mercurialen Zug nicht immer mit legalen Mitteln die Welt verändern wollte. Zwischen Zeus und Prometheus gibt es eine klare Hierarchie, und es gibt auch das indirekte Durchsetzen eigener Vorstellungen; insbesondere dann, wenn die anderen als zu mächtig eingestuft werden. Diesen Zug kann ich auch in mir wieder finden. Kann ich jemanden auf einem Schlachtfeld nicht besiegen, weil ich meinen Waffengang nicht geübt habe, dann versuche ich eine andere Möglichkeit, mich durchzusetzen.

Noch etwas anderes will Zeus dem Gefesselten entlocken. Prometheus weiß, wer den olympischen Vater stürzen wird und behält sein Geheimnis. Es wird jener Halbgott Jesus sein, der mit einer Leberwunde am Kreuz stirbt, der die Bedeutung und damit den Sturz der Olympier besiegelt.

Jesus erleidet einen Speerstoß im rechten Rippenbogen. Er ist gefesselt, zwar an das Kreuz, aber doch auch vom Vater verlassen. Er muss sterben, um in das Reich des Vaters zu gelangen. Aber die Geschichte um Prometheus ist noch nicht zu Ende. Am Schluss dieses Mythos tauchen noch zwei weitere Gestalten auf:

Es ist der Zentaur Chiron, der sich schließlich für den Angeketteten opfert. Auch Chiron gehört wie Prometheus zum alten Geschlecht. Er war als ein den Menschen und Göttern wohl gesonnener Pferdemensch und Lehrer so vieler Helden wie Theseus, Perseus, Herakles usw. Letzterer verwundete den Chiron versehentlich bei einem Kampfe mit anderen Zentauren. Das von der besiegten lernaiischen Hydra stammende Pfeilgift verletzte Chirons Knie und da er unsterblich war, musste er qualvolle Schmerzen an dieser nicht heilenden Wunde erleiden.

Herakles kann Zeus zu der Freilassung Prometheus unter bestimmten Bedingungen überreden, und der Vater-Sohn Herakles erschießt den leberfressenden Adler mit einem Pfeil (astrologisches Schützesymbol).

Der Heiler Chiron tauscht mit Prometheus den Platz.

Vielleicht ist das Ende dieses Mythos ein Heilungsweg für Lycopodium. Wie Chiron verfügt er über das Wissen und die Weisheit der alten Zeit und könnte zum Lehrer für die neuen Helden werden, die mehr Energie und Kraft haben. Er wirkt im Hintergrund und erst sein Leiden (an der Leber oder die unheilbare Wunde am Knie machen ihn zum Heiler und Lehrer für die neue Generation. Chiron hat anders als Prometheus seine Rolle als "Rentner" im neuen Machtgefüge des Olymps schneller gefunden und als Lehrer und Heiler dem Helden einen Dienst erweisen können.

Proteus, herding the seals and other marine live-stock of Neptune/Poseidon, a sea-god, capable of assuming any form that pleased him (wie Merkur.)/er kann Weißsagen., aber entzieht sich durch Gestaltwandlung. die Fragen Proteus, the prophetic old man of the sea, was said to rise from the flood at midday and sleep in the shadow of the rocks of the coast, surrounded by the monsters of the deep. Anyone who wished him to tell the future had to catch hold of him at noon. He would change his shape at will in order to escape the necessity of prophesying, but when he saw that he was beaten, he would resume his original form and tell the truth, where after he would return to the sea (Smith, 1867).

Promethium: (lanthanoid = magnetic qualities, rubber like behaviour, luminescent blue range, 4 pronged star shape, promethium is the only lathanoid that does not occur naturally) – radioactive; rare earth metal; used in nuclear batteries to capture light; Prometheus was the God who stole fire from heaven, thus Promethium is missing from the earth and is artificially produced but identified in stars and so can produce light;

Prometheus. was punished by Zeus for stealing the fire

 

Auf Sardinien nimmt Johannis.x teilweise der Rolle des Prometheus inne.

                                                Protea mit Protheus verwandt because of the great variability within the genus

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein., or the “Modern  Prometheus”.

 

 

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