The Prophecy: Prologue

Many stories have been told about the being of Chaos. There had been talk about a box that held all the evils that are now known and that a gift to all man called Pandora set them lose. There are many holes in this story that many do not know of, but listen and I'll tell you the truth.

Before the earth and sea and the all-covering heaven, one aspect,
which we call Chaos, covered all the face of Nature. Gradually, the shape of Mother Earth, or Gaea, emerged from the emptiness and formed the world. She gave birth to a son called Uranus, who was the sky. Rain fell from the sky causing plants to grow. Animals then appeared from the rivers and seas.

Next, monsters and giants were born. Cyclopes where one of the three created and Uranus treated them cruelly and banished them to the underworld. Later human-shaped giants called Titans were born. These were the first gods and goddesses.

Gaea was furious with Uranus for the way he treated the Cyclopes and so she urged the titan leader, Cronos, to rebel and seize power. Cronos did and won the battle against Uranus. He then married his sister Rhea and became the Titan King. They had five children but Cronos had been warned one of them would kill him, so he swallowed each child as it was born. To save the sixth, Rhea tricked Cronos into swallowing a stone. She gave the real baby to some nymphs to bring up the chilled named Zeus.

When Zeus grew up, he returned home in disguise and gave Cronos a potion to make him choke. His brothers were coughed out, whole and safe. Uranus died and Zeus later became Ruler of the sky and King of the Gods.

Zeus soon after asked Prometheus, a Titan, to try his hand at creating a race to live on Earth. Prometheus succeeded by making mankind. He was very fond of the people and helped them whenever he could. What Prometheus later did made the Zeus very angry. Prometheus with the help of Athene, his friend, brought fire from the heavens to man. With this, man was more than equal to all other
animals.

Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock and made an eagle eat his liver to punish him. Despite the pain, the immortal Prometheus could not die. His liver grew at night and the eagle returned the next day.
To punish mankind for accepting Prometheus' gift of fire Zeus created a woman named Pandora and gave her to Prometheus' brother, Epimetheus. Zeus gave her a box to take with her but strictly forbade her to open it. Pandora
was seized with an eager curiosity to know what this box contained; and one day she opened the box and looked in.
Immediately there escaped a multitude of plagues for unfortunate man,--
such as sickness, age, sin and death. Pandora stared in horror, one last thing emerged: Hope. Unlike the rest Hope had a body and was shaped has young child of eight. While Pandora watched; the body of Hope began to fade and disperse over the world living only remembrances of itself in the hearts of mankind. This meant that people should never be in despair.

No one knew why it was that Hope was the only one from the jar with a physical body. Even the almighty Zeus says he dose not know, but I believe he knows more then he says. I believe it is because sometime in the future it will need one. But for what reason not even I can guess.