The Direction of Intention

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I researched, wrote and performed a story to accompany the music for Beethoven’s Creatures of Prometheus. In the story, Zeus commands Prometheus to create a pair of dull crude creatures whose single purpose is to worship the gods.

Out of clay Prometheus fashioned the first woman and man. He did not follow his orders and instead of shaping crude creatures he made them beautiful. He made them to be beautiful. He hid their shapes beneath a great tree so Zeus couldn’t see them. Knowing that Zeus would never give him the spark of life to ignite his creature’s hearts, he stole the fire, racing down the mountain to reach his creatures and give them life before Zeus discovered and destroyed them.

Zeus did not destroy them. He had a plan more cruel aimed not at the humans but at Prometheus. He let them live. He let the gods teach them wonderful things like music and mathematics, astronomy and dance.

And then, just as in the Christian version (called Adam and Eve), he metaphorically banished them from their garden by making them forget their true creator, Prometheus, and forced them swear allegiance to him as their maker. Instead of being the servants of beauty (for which they were designed), Zeus gave them a different focus. He gave them the desire for power-over-others and possession, he gave them war and put limits on their lives; he gave them separation from their beauty, he gave them fear as the focus of their worship. He gave them death.

But the woman held fast to the memory of Prometheus. She knew for a time that she would have to pretend to worship the angry god. She knew Prometheus would be waiting for them when the man, one day, also remembered what he was made to be, and together they would find their way to fulfill the original design.

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