The divine fire stolen from heaven by their champion Prometheus burns within them. The Golden Age has become an Age of Heroes – men and women who grasp their destinies, use their human qualities of courage, cunning, ambition, speed and strength to perform astonishing deeds, vanquish terrible monsters and establish great cultures and lineages that change the world. The fire is real and hot in the world and has given mankind the power to smelt, forge, fabricate and make, but it is an inner fire too thanks to Prometheus we are now endowed with the divine spark, the creative fire, the consciousness that once belonged only to gods. In the age we have entered now, the gods are still very much around, favouring, disfavouring, directing and disturbing, but Prometheus’s gift of fire has given humankind the ability to run its own affairs, build up its distinct city states, kingdoms and dynasties. But over time, as age has succeeded age and humankind has grown and prospered, the intensity of these interrelations has slowly diminished. In the early days of gods and men, the divine trod the earth with mortals, befriended them, ravished them, coupled with them, punished them, tormented them, transformed them into flowers, trees, birds and bugs and in all ways interacted, intersected, intertwined, interbred, interpenetrated and interfered with us. Duties and domains in the mortal sphere are parcelled out to his family, the other ten Olympian gods.
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