Day Play Pandora Box Pandora's

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~ PANDORA  or PANDORE  ANESIDORA    see>  EVE
           id+ "THE ALL GIFTED"     see>  EVIL
  CONSIDERED TO BE THE FIRST MORTAL WOMAN
  hx> ERASMUS [#] of Roterdam is given
      credit for popularizing the BOX component
  of the Pandora's legend after the works of
  HESIOD [#] reappeared in 1471
  PANDORA'S BOX suggests ideas of
  CHALICE  CHARMING     sug> CHARACTER
  TO BE BOXED or        sug> DOME
  BOUND or              sug> DOMESTIC
  CASED or              sug> CASUALTY
  PREDICAMENT           sug> CLIMAX
  ply> | PANDORA'S CHARMING CHALICE
         MAY BE HER WOMB
         THE MATRIX OR ORIGIN OF ALL SINNERS and
         THE ONLY HOPE FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL |
  myth>  PROMETHEUS CHAMPIONED MANKIND
         BUT THE OLYMPIC GODS CONSIDERED THAT
  HUMANITY LACKED THE WITS TO BE RESPONSIBLE
  FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES      sug> HUMANISM
  PROMETHUES STOLE or        sug> PELT
  ROBED                      sug> ROBE
  THE SACRED FIRE            sug> OLYMPIC TORCH
  FROM ZEUS WHO              sug> ATOMIC ENERGY
  CALLED FOR REVENGE         sug> REMEDY
  ZEUS ORDERED VULCAN        sug> FORGER
  TO CREATE AN               sug> FORM
  IRRESISTIBLE               sug> TANTALIZING
  MORTAL                     sug> LETHAL
  FEMALE or                  see> FEMUR
  WOMAN as an                see> WOMB
  INTENDED MATE or           see> MATERIAL
  BRIDE or                   sug> BRIDLE
  WIFE for                   see> WHIP
  PROMETHEUS and to be       sug> PROMISE
  ENDOWED BY ALL GODS        sug> ADORNED
  thus NAMED PANDORA         sug> ADORABLE
  ATHENA gave her            sug> PARTHENOS
  SKILLS                     sug> GENIUS
  ZEUS A BOX                 sug> PYXIS
  VENUS gave her             sug> VENALITY
  BEAUTY and GRACE           sug> CHARM
  MERCURY                    sug> MERCENARY
  a flair for                sug> FLAME
  LYING                      sug> VILE
  and perhaps VULCAN         sug> VULGAR
  and his WIFE               sug> WAIF
  CHARIS who stood for       sug> CHARISMA
  CHARM enriched the CHARACTER of PANDORA
  in any case
  PROMETHEUS was not CHARMED and the plan had no
  PROMISE until the REJECTED PANDORA
  SEDUCED EPIMENTHEUS TO TAKE HER AS HIS
  WIFE STIPULATING THAT      see> WHIP
  HER CHALICE                sug> VESSEL
  WAS TO REMAIN CLOSED       sug> MATRIX
  BUT EPIMETHEUS OPENED IT   sug> UTERUS
  THUS SET FREE              see> LIBERATED
  EVIL SPIRITS               sug> LIBERTINE
  TO PESTER THE WORLD        sug> VEX
  AND MADE THE EARTH         sug> DIRT
  A GRAVE HABITAT            sug> GRAVIDITY
  SINCE ALL BENIGN SPIRITS   sug> DELIGHT
  RETURNED TO THE HEAVENS    sug> ZION
  EXCEPT FOR ONE             sug> BRIGHT
  WE CALL ETERNAL HOPE       sug> LIGHT
  lit+ HESIOD [#] states
       that ZEUS said
  " ... I WILL GIVE MEN ...  sug> PROGRESS
  FIRE                       sug> ATOM
  AN EVIL THING              sug> VICE
  IN WHICH THEY MAY ALL      sug> MALADY
  BE GLAD OF HEART           sug> LOVE
  WHILE THEY EMBRACE         sug> CARESS
  THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION ...  sug> FURNACE
  {Zeus} CHARGED HERMES ...  sug> FORNICATION
  TO PUT IN HER              sug> LIVER
  A SHAMELESS MIND AND       sug> LIFE
  A DECEITFUL NATURE ... "   sug> MERCENARY
  lit+  note links of BOX with
        MATRIX
        WOMB
        UTERUS
        MATERNITY
        MATERNAL
        MATTER
  biol> PANDOREA  PANDORIDAE  PANDORINA
        are names denoting BOX LIKE
  ply> | perhaps PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS IS AKIN TO
         EXPLORATIONS OF THE PANDORA'S BOX |
  art> Dora and Erwin PANOFSKY [#] in " PANDORA'S BOX " by
       Princeton University Press  Princeton 1991  offer a
  COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW AND 67 ILLUSTRATIONS SHOWING CHANGING
  PERCEPTIONS OF THE MYTHICAL IMPLICATIONS IN PANDORA