Pandora was the first woman created by the Olympian gods
Pandora was the first female person ever created by the Greek gods. Zeus, the King of the gods, ordered from Hephaestus, the blacksmith, to create a female human form out of earth and water and to make her look as beautiful as the gods.
All Olympian gods contributed to the creation of her appearance and personality, in both a positive and a negative way.
Aphrodite, the goddess of love, blessed her with beauty and grace, but on the other side there was Apollo, the god of the music, who seeded lies into Pandora's soul...Athena, with the help of the Graces , ornated her with golden jewellery, but Hermes, the gods' messenger, made her shameless and Hera, the wife of Zeus, blessed her with extreme curiosity...
Because of the many gifts she received, the woman became entitled with the name Pandora, the "all-endowed".
She is told to never open her jar, but the gods and goddesses have also made her curious. Eventually, she opens the jar, which in some versions was not given to her by Zeus, but was instead kept locked up by Epimetheus, who did not want humankind to suffer.
But in either case, the vessel is opened, and all the evils of the world were expelled. Pandora realizes what she has done, but cannot slam the lid back on fast enough. The only thing left in the jar is hope.
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