Myth of Prometheus

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The Myth of PrometheusA Dystopian Reinvention
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In the sprawling city that became of Earth,
Olympus stood at its centre towering over the
rest of the city. It could be seen no matter
where you stood and its dominance was constantly
felt by its inhabitants man. Occupying Olympus
was an elite group known as the Olympians, and at
the head of this group was Zeus. The Olympians
controlled every aspect of the city.
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Below Olympus, man wandered the streets
aimlessly, like mindless shadows. That was until
Prometheus, member of the former ruling class
the Titans, gave them voice and reason. Acting as
mans mentor, he gave them science, and the art
of writing amongst other knowledge.
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A bill was being settled between man and Zeus as
to what part of the mans produce would be taken
by the Olympians as tax. Knowing that Zeus would
want to take all the cattle. The last of the
traditional livestock still alive, Prometheus
decided to scheme a plan to trick Zeus. He
fabricated a tabloid that said a disease had
spread throughout the cattle making them inedible.
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Prometheus had the tabloids distributed
throughout the city and then showed it to Zeus
who took the tabloid as fact. So Zeus signed the
bill stating that they would only take rabbit
amongst various other fruit and vegetables. After
realising the trick Prometheus had played on him,
Zeus became furious and decided to cut off the
power lines going from Olympus, depriving man of
electricity.
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Prometheus, unable to endure seeing man suffer
without something as fundamental as power,
decided to go to Olympus and steal one of the
many perpetual electricity generators.
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Prometheus presented to man the perpetual
electricity generator, and with it the knowledge
needed for man to sustain themselves with
unlimited power.
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For this Prometheus was punished. Zeus had him
chained up in an underground bunker somewhere
remote, where by day he was subjected to torture,
bringing him to the brink of death, only to be
nursed back to health at night so that he could
receive the same treatment the next day.
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Zeus also felt it was necessary to punish man. So
he had Hephaestus, chief engineer of Olympus, use
his advanced knowledge of science to create a
drug to give to man. The drug was to be so
addictive that it would have become mans eternal
companion, and oppress him for the rest of his
days. The drug was to be known as woman, and
Hephaestus named the prototype Pandora.
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Pandora was given to Epimetheus who, despite
Prometheus warning that Zeus might try to trick
him, unwittingly accepted it.
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Once the drug reached man, it unleashed all the
evils contained within him, and soon violence,
chaos and despair swept the streets of the
sprawling city.