The Mixed 'Human' Race

There are hominid 'people' on the Earth, yes of course...

Is it all one species?

LOL

The matter of Hesiod's Theogony (it's really the only thing in a complete form that he did write; the other things are by others although there are a few odd verses by him inserted here and there within those texts) is that most readers of it just presume it is some kind of literal description of 'how the gods - small g - were born...'

In fact even a casual scanning of it will make the fairly intelligent logical reader notice that what is really going on is that a name is being given to the outcomes of a natural context:

if it is early dawn (the goddess 'Eos') in Spring, you can sail ships on the open seas; if it is the deepest night, that dark covering will hide a multitude of matters, some amazingly good, and some, in Hesiod's own words (that is to say he places the words into the mouth of Gaia, aka Mother Earth) really monstrous and bad - 'when shameful acts were first devised (by Ouranos aka the Universe, under cover of the pitch black night).'

Tom, in the Final Reckoning.

What he's really saying is that context breeds outcomes.

But then in addition, he's also saying, the same thing that Jungian psychologists all say: that particular outcomes are archetypal.

And then what Hesiod says is that the Race of Humans and the Race of the Gods settled accounts and had a meal together (this is the same thing that Moses apparently, was said to have done between Jehovah and the Israelites, although that is characterized as 'a sacrifice') - but Prometheus, even though accounts were settled, still tried to trick Zeus by disguising a very poor food sharing to Zeus as something better than it really was.

And Zeus let that happen to see what Humans would subsequently do. 

So it's now a matter of honor between the Gods and Men to sort that out...

It's not a matter of 'sacrifice.'

Prometheus' intention may have been to continue to assert that the Titans, via the mortal Human Race, were still capable of challenging the Olympian Immortal Gods - through sheer cleverness; but I doubt that. It's more that he plays a role in concert with Zeus.

Prometheus never fought on the side of the warring Titans against Zeus in the Titanomachy.

Zeus for his part, knew very well what was happening in the joint 'peace' meal, and decided then to 'gift' the race of Human Women to Men - in other words to the flawed creature that Prometheus had a large hand in designed and making, although he Prometheus actually did NOT solely (that is to say himself alone) create the Human Male Being.

The underseas flares scene is
brilliant.

And what's really going on there is that there is a distinct differentiation being made between a whole lot of different hominid sentient and intelligent beings on the Earth: there are human mortal children of Gods and humans, there are heroic humans who receive the favor of the Immortal Gods, there are literally Gods who dwell on the Earth mostly in the guise of ordinary mortal human beings, and there are just plain 'manufactured' (that's the specific word Hesiod uses) humans.

And there are even the offspring of Mermen, sworn to stay away from humankind and the normal land, but who nevertheless either live on the Earth on islands shrouded in thick mists, or very deep in the oceans where they have constructed their own special environments.

Yes, a kind of 'fire' was covertly taken from the Gods and given to Humans, but this was never the reason Zeus constrained Prometheus for some time until He agreed for Hercules to release Prometheus.

And then, this was not 'fire' as we would really call it, but 'photia' plus 'phos-phuros' which described its characteristics superficially and what it looked like to the Divine Eyesight - but which was in fact the Never-Wearying Creative Power of the Mind and the Heart (with a particular emphasis on the Heart and its ability to carry feelings as concentrated things in the 'memory' of the very life-blood).

I can't find an online pic
just now for one of the final
scenes in Tom Cruise's
latest Mission Impossible movie...
But in that, his people are inside this dark cave 
when 'all the lights go out in the world'
but they are holding this 300+
terraflop(!) crystal oblong thing, in which
they have 'captured' the rogue AI.
The scene is like Caveman holding 'fire'
for the first time.

And so one really big problem with that is that unwise rage and anger and evil intent and design can be infused with the Creative Force - and then it becomes truly harmful, especially when it is manifested in unjust ways.

And this, is what Zeus objected to. He believed that humans would ceaselessly tend towards the Evil, and never stop doing it in every direction, if left to their own devices -, and that is why He balanced things up by giving Mankind a massive problem that it would never be able to cope with and thereby have its attention taken up in the profitless task of resolving its own social affairs. ...Which of course it never would.

For a mortal person living on the Earth, to fulsomely associate with the Immortal Gods, and by those interactions to secure for the mortal individual, an immortal new nature that succeeds the old mortal body - they must do two things: firstly, they indeed must use, must employ, the secret and hidden 'fire' that they are all endowed with through the act of Prometheus.

They cannot sit back and expect the Gods to just give them Eternal Life; and there is a very specific way and they must be positive moving forward to take the first steps: they must create. And that means to demonstrate one of the 'by Definition' Characteristics of Divinity - namely, Creation; not copying, but actual making something new that never was before. Never was, before.

But secondly and if anything much more importantly, they must affirm spiritual loyalty to sentient living beings in Divine Serenity...

Which is why in the Hesiod writings, the Divine Fire was spirited away hidden -, and, in there and in the other later writers' works, the actual 'Divine Fire' comes from embers taken from the Hearth of one of the Gods in their Heavenly Abode.

Serenity?
Not really. A bit cold for that here
surely.

Hestia being the Goddess of that Divine Hearth, Her attributes are Architectural manipulation, and Order manipulation so that the result is Serenity.

Zeus knew all along that Prometheus was taking the Fire secretly to give to Mankind, and thus ensured that this Divine Fire was always hidden in and from Mankind, generally.

So it's not something that is easy to access at all.

When the main figure in the New Testament said 'I am the Sacrificial Meal,' all He is doing is completing the Greek Hesiod Cycle.

...And that's actually a problem for those who claim they are and/or wish to be 'atheists' and also those who say that no such death happened or no such person like the text narratives say, even existed.

They're acting like Tom Cruise never existed...

This latest Mission Impossible film is impossibly, ludicrously unrealistic - but, since we all know what it's going to be about, everyone suspends their disbelief and then it becomes a brilliant re-make of Thunderball, with excellent stunts (impossible, totally unrealistic in every way - lol), some truly great visuals, and replete with Byzantine Christian memes like the 'Russian key' to the sunken Russian sub that is like a Russian Icon Crucifix, and then this oblong crystal block that glows once 'the Entity' is captured in it and that comes across like humans have 'captured a Forbidden Fire,' and they're all huddled in a dark cave when that happens...

Yeah. Good movie. 10/10.

Hesiod's 'myth' never went away at all.