Prometheus So, you’ve come again Tear me with talons and slap me with feathers Once I could depend on death, my friend. So, you've come again Time becomes reckoned on wings that are beating And the day begins screaming Oh I am still here (a thousand years) I am still here (a thousand deaths) I am still here, so hear me cry FEED ON ME. FEED ON ME. FEED ON ME. But promise me I’ll die. But promise me I’ll die Promise me I’ll die...... for the last time Oceans endless time Eats at the earth, and the rock, and my memory I recall the crime…... the clay…… the fire Man I made divine Curses mortality, yearning eternal But, immortalised, I’m screaming….. Oh I am still here (a thousand years) I am still here (a thousand deaths) I am still here, so hear me cry FEED ON ME. FEED ON ME. FEED ON ME. But promise me I’ll die. Promise me I’ll die Promise me I’ll die….. for the last time

So, you’ve come again

Flight of the eagle that rises totemic

Do I fear the pain? Or the weakness?

So, you’ve come again

Now that my nightmare has patched me together

I can die again screaming……..

OH I AM STILL HERE (a thousand years)

I am still here (a thousand deaths)

I am still here, so hear me cry

FEED ON ME. FEED ON ME. FEED ON ME.

But promise me I’ll die

Promise me I’ll die

Promise me I’ll die….. for the last time

Written and sung by Wendy Rule

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Prometheus 1 Prometheus 1 was considered the wisest Titan. His name means “forethought” and it is said he was able to foretell the future. Prometheus and his brother, Epimetheus, were delegated by Zeus to create man. Prometheus shaped man out of mud, and Athena breathed life into the clay figure. Epimetheus was given the task of giving the creatures of the earth various qualities to assist them through life – swiftness, cunning, strength, fur and wings, etc. Unfortunately Epimetheus was not known for his forethought and wisdom, and he did not leave any of the good qualities back to give to man.

And so Prometheus decided to make man stand upright – as the gods did, and because he was the protector and benefactor of man, he gave mankind a number of gifs – including fire, which he stole from heaven and hid in the stem of a fennel plant. Prometheus also tricked Zeus into allowing man to keep the best of the animals sacrificed to the gods, and give the gods the worse part. For deceiving and angering the gods, Zeus punished Prometheus by having him chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus, and he was kept bound for many years. Every day an eagle would swoop down on him and devour his liver – which would grow again by night. He was to be left there for all eternity – or until he agreed to disclose to Zeus which of Zeus children would try to replace him. He was eventually rescued by Heracles without giving in to Zeus.