Pandora's Celebration of the Seasons

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Celebrate the Seasons...and the Holidays of each Season

When celebrating the seasons, we think of the Holidays that occur during that season.  My favorite season if Fall, so we'll start there.  To me Autumn represents a beginning...the beginning of the school year was always an exciting time.  I love the colors of the Fall leaves and welcome the cooler weather.  And some of my favorite Holidays are in the fall...Halloween and Thanksgiving as well as Oktoberfest celebrations.

The Story of Pandora - a Halloween Story

The Greek Myth of Pandora's Box is an appropriate story for Halloween...all the evils of the world are released when Pandora opens the box.  Just as we pretend that all the evils of the world are out and about on Halloween.

The Greek Myth of Pandora's Box:

The Greek God, Zeus, was terribly angry when the Titan, Prometheus, stole Fire  from the Gods and gave it to Man. So he decided to punish all mankind (which, until then, had lived in a state of perpetual bliss and innocence, the Golden Age).  He asked Hephaistos to make Woman out of clay. Until then, there were no women on earth. Hephaistos made her, using as models the beautiful Goddesses, and gave her qualities: beauty, grace, dexterity, boldness, persuasion, curiosity, cunning and deceit.  This Woman was given the name Pandora (all-gifted). Then the gods gave her a mysterious box as a wedding gift, but told her not to open it.Prometheus, who could tell the future, refused to accept the woman. He also warned his brother, Epimetheus, about Zeus' gift. But when Epimetheus saw Pandora, he instantly fell in love with her and married her.But since Pandora was curious, she opened the box, which contained evil.  All of the evil flew out of Pandora's box and spread into the world: crime, poverty, pain, hunger, sickness, vice.Terrified, Pandora closed the lid. But the gods put, along with the evil, something good, which was called Hope.  And Hope is one of the most important things in the world.  It helps us continue on in spite of adversity and is surely present at the beginning of each new season and holiday.