Today I will tell you a story. And to be more precise, the Greek myth about Prometheus. Many of you probably know this plot in general terms, but it seems to me important to turn to the original source and analyze this story from a psychological point of view, looking at the impact that such myth-making has on our society and the female role in it. I will try to make as brief a retelling as possible, touching only on important events and segments. Without going into a long genealogy, I will say that one of the first titans to be born was Prometheus. Prometheus's name means "foreseeer." One day Zeus started a war against his father Kronos to seize power. All the Titans, except Prometheus, sided with Kronos. Prometheus foresaw the outcome of the battle and chose the side of Zeus. As expected, Zeus won. Day after day passed after the victory. The gods began to get bored. And then Zeus called Hephaestus and asked him to create something new, unique. Hephaestus gathered the Olympian gods, and they gave birth to living creatures, some of which were called “animals,” and others, who looked like gods, “people.” The people created by the gods were only male. Prometheus fell in love with people very much and asked Zeus to give people the means to protect themselves from bloodthirsty animals and to prepare food. Let people have fire. Zeus agreed. But one day Zeus got tired of being on an equal footing with people. Sit with them at the same table and feast. And then Zeus decided to establish a new world order: Zeus is at the very top, and people are at the very bottom. Zeus ordered a large bull to be sacrificed and divided into two parts: the better part belonged to the gods, and the other to the people. Prometheus was against it and deceived Zeus by butchering the bull in such a way that in the end the best part went to the people. Zeus became angry and took the fire away from the people. Then Prometheus made his way to Olympus and stole fire for people. Unable to withstand such insolence, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock, and then ordered his eagle to fly in every day and peck at the liver. The eagle pecked every day, and the immortal’s liver grew again. For people, Zeus prepared a different fate. As punishment, Zeus ordered Hephaestus to create the first clay woman, with the participation of other gods, who would look like a goddess. So that she has amazing beauty and all imaginable advantages. Aphrodite will give her grace, Athena will dress her in beautiful clothes, and Hermes will put intelligence into her. A deceitful, domineering character, a sexual appetite that cannot be quenched, and most importantly, curiosity. This woman was named Pandora. Pandora is the first woman on earth, the ancestor of all women. Pandora is a flame that Zeus sent to people as punishment for the theft of fire by Prometheus. Now all that remains is to connect her with the right man. And Zeus decides to marry Pandora to his younger brother Prometheus, who is so similar to people (“first he does, and then he thinks”). Hephaestus delivers Pandora to Prometheus's brother along with a beautiful box in which each god has put something harmful and terrible. It contained all the misfortunes of the Universe (hunger, thirst, disease and death). Naturally, Zeus recommends not opening the box to Pandora under any pretext, thereby igniting her feminine curiosity. On the very first night that Pandora spent with Prometheus’s brother, she could not resist the temptation to find out what was hidden in the box. She got out of bed and lifted the lid. At that very second, all the misfortunes of humanity were unleashed, which would torment people until the very end of the world. Pandora, in a state of blindness, closed the lid, but it was too late. From now on, people separated from the gods will continue their race through fertilization of the female womb, and will also plant seeds in the ground in order to obtain food. And since then, good and evil have been inseparable. But not all was lost, because at the bottom of the box there was “hope”, which did not have time to get out before Pandora slammed the lid. Hermes, by order of Zeus, planted her secretly. Therefore, even among the most terrible tragedies of mankind, peoplewill always maintain faith and hope. The first mention of the myth of Prometheus is found in the tragedy of Aeschylus “Prometheus Bound” (5th century BC). Unfortunately, this is only one of many stories (myths) where a woman is presented in a bad light . And such a story is part of a huge snowball that creates the archetype of the female image: she is secondary (the first were men, where “first” means the main one); she is not holistic / not independent, but is only an object that is owned and transferred (she was created for specific purposes, handed over and put to bed); it was created to seduce and satisfy male whims, and must correspond to this (beauty, sexuality, cunning, deceit - as a tool of seduction to achieve the goal); one of the qualities inherent in every person is exaggerated and presented in a negative aspect (curiosity, which forced him to open the box); the role of a “scapegoat” in all human sins (released all the troubles from their casket, the established expression that “all problems are because of women”, an analogy with the Christian story of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from paradise). This state of affairs, one way or another , forms in women an inferiority complex, a loss of a sense of integrity. And even if parental education does not allow its development, then in modern society a woman will encounter it. Culture, environment, traditions, social interactions. The built-up self-concept of how others see/want to see her will force someone to accept the rules of the game and give up their favorite activities that are not for “girls.” Some will protest by entering into competition with men. Someone will want to become like a man. Someone will enter into competition with women in the desire to differentiate themselves from them. Someone will live in constant comparison of themselves with the standard of beauty, tormented by diets, various procedures and neuroses. Someone will use the “endowed qualities” to arrange their life. Someone will search for love all their lives, and someone will live, being someone else's property, in complete codependence and without a sense of self-sufficiency. In relationships between men and women, there are no those who are more important or important. Any attempt to establish such a hierarchy is nothing more than an attempt to increase one’s self-esteem at the expense of another person. This only means that somewhere inside a person there is hidden trauma, which he is trying to hide by filling himself with “painkillers.” Life is absolutely impossible both without a woman and without a man. Their natural significance is equal. Therefore, a priori a woman cannot belong to someone. Be it her father or her husband. The very establishment of ownership makes an inanimate object out of a living person, for example, the word “familia” originally meant people who are owned by someone. The word “famel” is no more, no less, but “slave”, “parter familias” meant not the father of the family, but the master of his slaves. Therefore, when establishing belonging, the perception of the individual, her rights and boundaries is lost, which contributes to the spread of physical and sexual violence, and the action itself as “taking possession of a woman” in some societies and cultures is elevated to the cult of cool. This is especially true for young children, where possessiveness and imposing one's own direction on life leads to a split personality. A child, growing up, lives someone else's life, according to someone else's rules. He no longer knows what he loves and what he wants. He feels that he is living someone else's life. Parenthood should always be a charity. This is only a pure open desire of two people to give life to a new person, telling and showing how this world works, and entrusting the new person to make the choice of how to live further. The same applies to the attributed characteristics. A woman may choose to play sports not to quench a man’s thirst, but so that she likes that her body is vigorous and healthy. She can eat when she wants to eat, and not eat when she doesn’t want to, guided by the needs of her body, and not by the demands of society. She chooses clothes so that she is comfortable,.