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　　英语神话故事：普罗米修斯

　　Prometheus was a Titan ．In the war between Zeus the giants he had stood on the side of the new Olympiangods．Out of the clay he made the first man，to whom Athena gave soul and holy breath．

　　Prometheus spent a lot of time and energy in creating the gift of fire．And fire raised man above all animals ．Later，there held a joint meeting of gods and men．

　　The meeting was to decide what part of burnt animals should begiven to gods and what to men．Prometheus cut up an ox and divided it into two parts：under the skin he placed the fresh，and under the fat he put the bones，for he knew the selfish Zeus loved fat．

　　Zeus saw through the trick and felt displeased at the Prometheus' favor towards men．So in a masterful wayhe took away the gift of fire from mankind．However，Prometheus managed to steal fire from heaven and secretly brought it down tomen．

　　Flying into an anger atthis unjustified act of rebellion，Zeus let the other gods chain Prometheus to a rockon Mountain Caucasus，where a hungry eagle ever tore at his liver which ever grew again．His period of pain was to be thirty-thousand years．

　　Prometheus faced his bitter fate firmly and never lost courage before Zeus．At last Heracles made Prometheus and Zeus restore to friend ship，when Heracles came over in search of the golden apple and killed the eagle and set the friend of mankind free．

　　英语神话故事：玉兔入月宫

　　Legend a long time ago, a pair of rabbit practice Millennium became immortal. They have four lovely daughters, all born to pure cute.

　　One day, the emperor summoned the rabbits in heaven, it left his wife and children to be reluctant to part, stepping on the cloud temple. When it came to the south gate, see too white Venus day will lead the moon from the side walk. Rabbit fairy know what had happened, he asked a guard's door god beside. After hearing her encounter, rabbit fairy feel the innocent suffer, sympathize with her. But his meager strength, can be of any help? Think of the man in the moon, how lonely sad, if someone with good, suddenly thought of their four daughters, it immediately ran home.

　　The Moon Fairy rabbit tell the female rabbit, and a child to say with the goddess of the moon. The female rabbit though deeply sympathize with the moon, but loathe to give up their baby daughter, this is tantamount to the heart of flesh cut it! Daughters also reluctant to leave their parents, with tears in her eyes. The male rabbit sincere words and earnest wishes to say: "if I were alone, shut up, you are willing to accompany me? The moon in order to save the people, compromised, we can sympathize with her? The children, we can't think only about yourself!"

　　The children understand the father's heart, all wants to go. Two rabbits with tears in his eyes, smiled. They decided to let the youngest daughter.

　　The little moon farewell parents and sisters, flying to the moon to live!

　　英语神话故事：洪水

　　Towards the end of the Age of Bronze the human world became very cruel．

　　Men grew hungry，impolite and ungodly．Neither rightn or law was respected any longer，and the rule of hospitality was forgotten．Dressed up in human form，Zeus visited Arcadia andThessaly，and disliked the deadly wrongs of men ．He decidedto clear the earth of them all．Without hesitation he released therainy south wind and called upon the heartless Poseidon to help．Soon the whole world sank in a vast ocean， and the entire humanrace disappeared in the unheard of flood，all but two poor Thessalians．

　　These were an old childless couple，kind and faithful and contented with life．The man was called Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha．Son of Prometheus，Deucalion had been warned beforehand by his father of the coming floodand made himself a hugechest．When the roaring flood came the couple hid themselves init and floated for nine days until it touched land again on Mt Parnassus．

　　The once active world presented a frightening sight．It was all death and ruin．Feeling lonely and unsafe，the old coupleprayed to the gods for help．A sage instructed them to cast the bones of their mother about ．The son of the wise Titan， havingguessed the true meaning of the mysterious command， started throwing stones behind him． A miracle occurred． The stonesthat the man cast became men；the stones that the woman threwturned into women．Since then，people appeared on the land again．The Heroic Age had begun．

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