Prometheus

(Prometheus) and human

Cronus against Jove (Jupiter, the Roman name, that is the struggle of the Greek Zeus, Zeus), Prometheus to the side of the gods of Mount Olympus. Later shape and to give and all other animals to the task of survival skills he and his brother Eph shelter ink Proteus (Epimetheus). Eph shelter Mexican Proteus, courage, strength, quick, Li and other gifts given to a variety of animals. Prometheus with soil and water kneading, according to the people of God look like mud; He gave him a standing position. the Eph shelter ink Proteus all kinds of talent generously donated to the other animals, had not the rest of decent talent gave the most noble creatures, Prometheus ascended to heaven in the chariot of the sun lit a torch, brought down fire. However, Jupiter is not very happy consented to the use of fire There, God and man in tin-West Weng dispute over their respective permissions, Prometheus playing a clever trick, an attempt to settle the question in favor of man he a sacrificial bull is divided into two all edible part of the package in the skin, and cunningly surmounted with uninviting entrails; the bones wrapped with a layer of fat fat, looks like a good meat and then he made Jupiter his choice. The king of Heaven his machinations, but took the heap of bones and fat fat, thus deprived of the right to human use of fire as an excuse to use this insult but Prometheus with a hollow tube from Tianfu steal fire again made a valuable day of fire.

To this end, the Jupiter command Prometheus was chained in the Caucasus mountains on a rock cliff, spend months and years to suffering from an eagle's torture, it does not always eat it every day, pecking at his liver was able to his Titan fortitude to endure suffering, because he knows will be a hero - the son of Jupiter - in the thirteenth generation to rescue him. really bad mood, when a hero did. he is none other than is mighty He ear Kule Si (Hercules, or Heike Ellis). Fen Huan Ying-Wei characters that he needs to make than to free the human guards. He ear Kule Si Titan said:

The human soul can never be conquered
Never liberated itself become vulnerable;
Itself is full of determination and strength, as well as
Not a little loss of vision and efforts to be added!
Want freedom? It courage, my brother!
Let the soul stand in life and death, knowledge and desire
Swinging open the doors.
To see the rising sun lit the pinnacle of thought!
Then shall the soul to rest no more.
Or harvest in the black township of sleep dream
The soul will be with firm strides
Straight on the shining hill
Talk freely and not falling stars.

Then he killed the eagle, the liberation of the prisoner of Jupiter.

Speaking Heads

Indeed able to speak with the metal head, reportedly the Western world had a number of magician all had to create this thing.

Only the head of the robot

According to legend, in which the Western Middle Ages, all magician Some magician has to create an object similar to today's so-called robot. Western magic circle called "artificial" creation, such as Jewish legend like magic, Paracelsus (1493? -1541) Homewood Cruise are quite famous, but in addition to the aforementioned two outside, and also spread the legend that had been manufactured and talking metal head.

The first to create a talking head character, the Roman Pope Sylvester II (Sylvester, II, 945? -1003).
Sylvester II


Whose real name is Sylvester II called Gilbert Germany and Europe lek (Gerbert d 'of Aurillac); there have been rumors that he had to conclude contracts with the devil, which gain strength later so that when the last Pope. Had been manufactured outside the talking head, Sylvester II, raising the dragon as a pet especially a lot of legends.

The second is ‧ Roger Bacon (1220-1292?)

Bacon is the earliest record powder manufacturing method of the Europeans, he also proposed the idea of flying machines and power boat, and later Feng for experimental science pioneers; other hand, he quite interested in astrology and alchemy. Bacon, the learned he had a "magic Doctor" (Dr. of Mirabilis) reputation, and his many inventions, which would include talking bronze head.
Albertus Magnus


Value of about Dominican of the same age I will (Dominican Order) the monks big Albert (of Albertus Magnus, 1200? -1280), That is Albert, von Perth Tate (Albert von Bollstadt), the same legend. He is also a bit highly educated celebrities, in addition to the talking head, was also said he made ​​a body of brass dolls. The aforementioned two say what is true and leaving It was reported that he produced creatures and finally his disciples - who later became the great theologian Thomas Aquinas (Thomas Aquina ,1225-1274) damaged.

Hannah thriller set - watch with the girls

Hannah thriller set - watch with the girls
Rose colored skin, honey-colored hair, sky blue with the eyes of Greek origin, like the mouth of the Queen Mary, dark house, the windmill, the teacher Carpenter slowly for her carefully festooned with with him like a humming like is impressed: "I want you to put on spider silk woven dress, I want you to wear a sparkling gem, and I want you to become the most dazzling girls, one day you will become the country's most beautiful princess to marry a distant land, a handsome prince. "

Teachers Carpenter calls out, help help slide the nose glasses, went on to sing: "You will taste the delicacy, well-dressed, you have groups of children, you will be very happy, and you will forget Here, forget me. "

Teachers Carpenter sing twinkle in his eye, trying to tears in the eyes to blink out, but he failed, the tears fell on his gray beard, but he does not care, time will be too late.

He again looked at her, the girl that silence watery eyes, red lips gently open, but did not say a word.

Only need a little bit of sunshine, you will become a real girl, one day, you will be the country's most beautiful girls. "Teacher Carpenter sighed, put her into the glass cabinet, and put a sealing wax seal on letterhead, and then covered with a black cloth, quietly waiting.

The appointed time has come to a magnificent carriage came to the windmill house.

A car wearing a gorgeous bodyguard down from the carriage, proudly: "She?"

Carpenter teacher head down, did not dare to lift "here."

Carried away. "Guards, hand waving to go call people wrapped in black cloth of the long cabinet loaded onto the carriage.

"Wait a minute," the teacher Carpenter call out, "directly into the palace to the princess, can not let her shine the sun."

"Oh? Why?" That guards arrogantly look askance at him.

"Because of her material is very special, you can not shine the sun."

"Tut," promised the guards did not, just the car, and sped away.

Teachers Carpenter looked at the disappearing carriage, murmured: "just need a little sun, you will become a real girl, a slight breath, you will be able to live over ... you are no longer ornamental girl, you will become a beautiful princess ... "

The carriage after marigold Tian, ​​guards let the carriage carrying the long cabinet to rest, this time because of the shock, the glass case is slightly exposed corner of the. The guards saw this, wanted to reach out to pull the good things that suddenly curious here.

For the Princess to the old man home contained a lot of puppet, but he is not interested in to see, he is merely following orders to do so, but today he played a curiosity.

"This doll looks like?" He thought, and then they set off, a beautiful young girl was sleeping in the glass case.

"Ah!" Guards almost exclaimed.

She is so beautiful, beautiful people can not watch intently, the carriage outside the sun shone on her cheeks, suffused with a hazy aperture, so that she looks like an angel to serenity, the girl's eyes suddenly open, flashed a light and shut. Guards to stay for a moment, could not believe my eyes, like real women less actually just a doll.

He hurried to cover black cloth back, such as witness the holy treasures and feel the evil, which is the princess doll, how he can peek at it? That Carpenter teacher also told him why he let curiosity control will, why do so could not help it?

Guards, loud yelling on the road, however, along the way but hung up, he felt that he committed a crime, he committed the crime of betrayal of the Princess from the vow of allegiance for the royal family the moment, he never felt so ashamed. carriage all the way to the palace, he had almost broke into tears.

He thought of the Princess, who asked her pardon.

***




Princess thirteen years old, not even my own parents are very rarely meet, and she knew because she was ugly. Every day, she could only wear tailor-made yarn, so that everyone can not see what she looks like, just so no problem, she also issued a surge of people shy away from the taste, even if she was soaked in rose oil it tastes like a part of her follow, along with her ugly.

She hated much longer than her beautiful maids of honor, and the punishment they find a variety of reasons and a variety of methods, listening to them I cry and be painful and distorted faces, that makes her feel the ladies distorted faces than her face also ugly, it makes her feel good point.

She whipped a ladies, because she was hurting her hair, even if the ladies did not see her face, she can still feel the maids of honor because she's ugly and smell and secretly despise, so she comb pain in her head.

Princess palace guards stripped the clothes of the ladies, her white body exposed for people to watch in the courtyard, and then use a very thin Ruanbian child, Youhen quickly pumping her skin, a short period of time and that pumping method not pain, but a sense of shame so that ladies shrink living body, the guards only drawn her back and the exposed limbs.

Fine whip to beat in the same place, even if a small welt will be raw and the ladies started to cry and beg for mercy.

"Princess of the well-intentioned, I beg you let me I could not dare to ..."

"Noisy dead," Princess kicked open her "her hand Genjiao to, respectively, tied-for-one with the nail of the whip, whip her stomach."

The guards, I even could not bear, and only did so, maids tied up in four columns, respectively, take the lead by two young and vigorous guards a whipped.

Barbed whip hook, a hook on the ladies of the flesh, they ripped off a large skin, the skin of the meat hook down take the lead take the lead, coupled with the fast wave that whip looks like a flying blade. to the ladies of the belly cut with the whip with a fall, the organs of the belly is also so belly broken intestinal flow to bleed to death.

At this time, the bird glass case was taken to the princess's bedroom to go. Then responsible for sending the doll's bodyguard, kneeling at the side.

"Warrior, you have nothing?" The princess to see that he did not leave, they speak asked.

"Please forgive me, Princess." He is full of repentance, even if the princess ordered the Prince, he did not hesitate to neck cut himself.

"You did what?" She asked.

"I, I ...... I do not carefully saw the black Bridget ...

"Doll?" Princess from the nose, hum a cry, then no big deal.

"Yes, Princess give offense, the maiden is too holy, like an angel, I, I ..." he began painting in the chest cross, muttered prayers. "Princess of offending, although I was not intentional, but committed a crime."

After all, the young princess, she just casually said something: "In this case, you are digging in their own eyes indulgences it."

"Yes!" I did not expect the guards out of the waist dagger, without hesitation thorn to their own eyes, suddenly ejected blood, guards, face to make an expression of pain, but he still pulled out the stick on the edge of the eye, continue to penetrate the other eyeball, I did not expect the second knife of unequal strength and guards, swallowed his pain, literally to the eyes to pull out the eyes and pulled out a thin fiber, mixed with mucus vascular timid ladies scared to turn the looked down upon, fainted.

"You ... you ..." Princess Although love punishment maids, often the whole they are a very tough battle, the more a few ladies alive by playing dead, but such a drastic punishment, she was so close to see.

Dredged so dirty eyes, it will not defile the maiden ... "Then he fainted.

Princess ordered to drag him out, she entered the bedroom, took all removal.

"Holy girl?" The Princess looked at the glass case that with her the same contour, the layer of black cloth dolls of that cabinet Chende more mysterious.

Every month to people sent a doll, the more do the meticulous and delicate, more destruction completely.

Untrue things than she was beautiful, hateful! Why is the normal appearance of her parents, she was the only ugly visibility, she pulled it off the veil, he saw the mirror looks like.

She has a dry yellow hair, no matter how much marigold oil, can not get it to the Fortress, the plainer of her skin, the eyes large and convex, nose flat, a pot big mouth eversion, even speech can not hold the teeth, face from time to time covered with pus beans, ears sharp as the devil!

She must be mother gave birth to a monster with Satan!

Her anger at this time staring at themselves in the mirror, the mirror, she also stared back at, it looks like ... the scary evil Mei Dusha.

She turned to look at that glass case, this doll has allowed a bodyguard and humble to be dredged eyes, and simply people not believe, no matter how beautiful doll, but that is only life what nothing.

Princess ripped off the black cloth, a sleeping girl quietly stand in the cabinet, she has a rosy skin, honey-colored hair, there are bright red lips, such as blood, and seems to drop bleeding.

Princess is one o'clock hit her like a fairy's face to scare, this is a doll? No way! This is a man! A living person, she could almost feel her breathing.

She opened the door of the glass case, an Qinfang escape, she even smells like a lily, the princess held out his hand and gently touched the girl's face, and a letter from her side fell down.
"The letter?" Princess feel confused, she had confiscated a letter written by this division Carpenter. She opened the meditation:

Dear Princess:

I am old, this will be the last doll I have done, I have exhausted all efforts to make her, and pray that she can be happy, to please the princess to her as your own, if you love her, to her at bedtime a kiss, she will bring good fortune for you.


No signature, only a short text, the princess decided not to destroy the doll, because this girl is like the appearance of her dream, her dream looks they should.

The princess began to talk to baby, and she took one with the same name, Ao Liwei princess.

Every day before going to bed, the Princess of Ao Liwei really indicated according to the division Carpenter letter, give her a kiss on the forehead, and miraculously found the smell of her body to reduce after a few days actually completely disappeared, and soon after, her face always pus beans consumers can not afford, had followed not see, she looks not so bad.

Her every day a day in front girls to speak, she placed in a glass case, from time to time to appreciate her unique and stunning beauty, and not allow anyone to appreciate her Ao Liwei. Princess is almost obsessed with dependent, such as living dolls girls.

She felt all due to this magical doll, which is her favorite doll, she's Ao Liwei, which is her own.

However, for many years to her habit with veil over his face, though her face pustule gone, she does not look good, so she wore the veil.

At this time, the king wants the princess marriage, upset with her daughter makes them too ugly and can not find her husband, so he decided to do a grand party, all young people to get together and release rumors in private, as long as Kenqu Princess people will be able to gain a huge dowry.

Until the ball the previous night, Ao Liwei princess is still worried, because she looks like but can not find her husband, then her how to do it?

She sighed, looked at the girl in a glass case, she gently touched her silky skin, "If I were you, I is the world's happiest girl," The Princess sighed, stroking her soft lips, "What a beautiful mouth, if I was a boy, how can we not love this girl?"

Ao Liwei princess is still a sigh, "That being the case, then I kiss you, because I love you, I will be tomorrow, unfortunately, I also hope that you can be happy." The princess Coushang her lips, the lips of the girl's printed under the kiss.

But the maiden like living over the same breath do in that moment the princess girl exhaustion!

Ao Liwei open my eyes, sky blue, the eyes to see her in this world, at first glance, the ground paralyzed with Ao Liwei princess's body.

Her incredible widened in the eye, such as death can not believe she would have died.

Girls Ao Liwei softly sang: "I have a rosy skin, honey-colored hair, sky blue with the eyes of Greek origin, Queen Mary's mouth, I put the spider silk woven dress, wearing a sparkling gem. and become the most dazzling girls, one day I will become the country's most beautiful princess, married to a distant land, a handsome prince.
I will be tasting the endless delicacies, dressed decent, I have groups of children, and lived happily ever after, and I will not forget the windmill house, and my father
Only need a little bit of sunshine, I'll become a real girl, as long as the slight breath, I will be able to live over ... I watch with the girls, into a beautiful princess, who I am ... I am Olivia Wei princess ...... "

Fire, wind, water, soil: European elements Wizard

Before the development of modern chemistry, the Europeans for a long time, I believe that things in the world by fire, wind, water, soil of the four elements, these elements also have their own respective wizard. Europeans, according to this concept, the combination of astrology and magic, has also become the theoretical basis of the popular Alchemy in the Middle Ages.

This article presents a four-element concept and all belongs to the wizard to make a simple introduction.

Europe's four elements concept

Sages of ancient Greece, constitute the primitive of things or substances constitute a different view. Some people think that the very essence of water, while others believe that it is gas, or fire.

Empedocles, fire, wind, water, soil is the world's most fundamental elements, because they do not destroy, can not be decomposed.

Later, the four elements of the development and establishment of Aristotle. He believes that all things are is the first original quality basic first original quality coupled with wet, dry, heat, cold four nature of two of nature, it will form the four elements. Things in the world are a mixture of different proportions of the four elements.
↓ Aristotle's four elements concept


The concept of the four elements in the classical and medieval quite popular. Not only Western astrology four elements to distinguish the 12 constellations, if everything is a result of the four elements, then, Alchemy and other artificial means to change the proportion of material elements, base metals will become a precious metal, or even extraction of the first original qualitative theory (Sage Stone) is also possible.

The ↓ Alchemy four element symbols

To the late Middle Ages, the concept of doctors and Alchemy Shipa Russell Sousse (Paracelsus,1493-1541) in his book, the elemental wizard. He believes that the world is divided into four groups of elements and the Secretary palm wizard consisting of:

Fire Elemental - Wizard Sha Lo Manda (Salamander)

Wind element - Wizard Xi Erfu (Sylph, Shylph, or Ariel Ariel)

Water Elemental - Wizard Undine (Undine, or Ondine)

Earth element - Wizard Nome (Gnome)

The following will be a briefing on the legend of the four elements of the wizard.

Fire Wizard (Salamander)

Fire wizard, 名沙罗曼达 the fire lizards, fire salamander source or salamander.

They are said to live in the burning magma in the volcanic outflow. Alchemy, with lead chain of gold used in the fire, according to legend, when the fire reaches a sufficient Redu, in which it will fire wizard.

According to legend, they have several image. In their description of the animal fable of medieval Europe, including the bird in the tubs in the shape of the the Bodhisattva embankment Seoul biological (eighth century), through the flame worm "(12 century) and the flame "(13th century).

Around the first century AD the Roman naturalist Prini (Plinius), has described the Sha Lo Manda looks like a lizard, only coming out in the rain, the temperature is very low, once the fire hit they will disappear. In addition, the stains of their milk-like saliva, the human body hair will fall off, the saliva gets on skin color fester.

The mid-12th century, was popular with a missionary King John (of Prester John), pseudo-letters. Mentioned in the letter, the country of King John, there is a worm called Sha Lo Manda, the worms only live in the fire, like a silkworm cocoons. The female officer in the country will cocoon woven into a noble cloth or clothing, when this cloth dirty out, if thrown into the fire will clean as new.

Even Leonardo da Vinci on the Sha Lo Manda description, actually is quite interesting: "It does not have any digestive organs, it does not eat any food, eat fire in the fire, it will continue to take off, a new scaly skin - this is its intrinsic value. "

The fact that Europeans do not understand the Sha Lo Manda this biological them for a long strange illusion and perception, so Paracelsus and others, as a fire spirit is not surprising.

Wind Wizard (Xi Erfu Sylph, Shylph, or Ariel Ariel)

Wind Wizard Xi Erfu a variety of shapes that appear in people's imagination. In the theory of Paracelsus, Xier Fu is a wizard of the wind, It is said that the breeze is whispering of the wizard. All the pure soul of the people will eventually become Xier Fu. Originally Xier Fu men and women, but as time went on that Xier Fu is slim young girls.

To a more recent era of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Xi Erfu gradually stereotypes long with transparent wings like a leprechaun-like behind a beautiful young girl. They are often stealth to up, that the in the air flying four play makes Jack a. Mentioned below the image of the Water Spirit is a beautiful girl, but the Wind Wizard Xier Fu more easily inconstant, of two minds. This is probably due to the wind is lighter than water, reminiscent Xier Fu comparison frivolous whims.

As a the wind Wizard, Xier Fu has a the ability to of impracticable to try to cover every possible loophole in a the wind ownership. Shakespeare "The Tempest" had to describe how amazing this power. However, this story is not is Xi Erfu, but Ariel. Their appearance with the Water Spirit, with slim beautiful body, but she can be invisible and free-flying in the air, the moment to fly very far away, and operating wind lead to enough to make the sunken British ship Kam storm. However, she can for local adjustment for the storm, the people on board without too much damage, and allow victims drifting according to her thought drifted into her designated place. In addition, because her body is too thin, dirty menial work she almost did not come. Magician seize Ariel weaknesses, even threats and she became his men.

Water Wizard (Undine

Water Spirit Undine is often portrayed as a beautiful female elves living in the waterside. In Europe, the name of "Undine" is sometimes the name of the wizard with other water interoperability (such as Eastern Europe legendary Vodianoi, and the Slavic mythology of Rusalka).

Fukai (Fouque), German writer, book, a novel published in 1811 "Lady in the Water of Unrequited Love" (Undine), Undine portrayed as a beautiful human female appearance, their personality fickle, capricious, do not know What is fear. According to French playwright the quarter Luodu (Giraudoux) the creation of another drama "Water Wizard" (Ondine), Undine will never fish it.

Undine legend itself has no soul, but soul can be obtained by means of combination with the male and gave birth to children. However, after obtaining the soul, Undine, like humans feel worried and sad, this is enough to make her unfortunately. Moreover, when married with the human male, the commitment must Xu never be destroyed, that is to become her husband not to scold her in the water's edge. If you break the commitment Undine must return to the water world, human husband Feisibuke. Undine will have a wide range of water wizard companion to help her husband is responsible for monitoring wells in the vicinity, if it is found that the other party having an affair, we will be approached together to kill him.

Fouquet's work, is married with Undine Knights of 名叫霍布兰 (Huldbrand). He had another fiancee, married Undine, his fiancee has not been immersed. Whenever he show emotions on the fiancee, the city springs wizard companions to kill him, and even endanger his fiancée. Such a thing occurred repeatedly, Huo Bulan, could not the waterside scolded Undine. Undine had to return to the water world, it has a soul after her feel grief, but even so, she still has a soul compared with no soul is more happy.

Undine appeared again and Huo Bulan and his fiancee get married one day. Her from the city spring to kill the knight, and left with tears, "I killed him and did not leave this sentence. After a spring appear, surrounded by the Knight around the tomb. Road springs to embrace the Knights of Undine.

Soil Wizard (Noam

Nome, in the legend gives the impression that short stature, wearing a red hat, wearing logging clothes, often in underground activities, as well as in groups come and go. His features are very similar with the other legends of biological, he also often mistaken as earth elves, goblins, or dwarves. The Gnome etymology for the Ge (earth) + Nomos (home) or the Gnosis (wise).

According to the description of Paracelsus, the the Nome living in the ground, the same as the fish swim in the water in the ground surf, guarding the treasures buried in the ground.

1970s, a Dutch writer Ryan ‧ Pood Wu Fourier (Rien Pourtvliet) and scientist Will ‧ Hagen ((Wil Huygen,) together with one called "Little Man" (Gnome), picture book, a detailed description of the promise Tim's life.

According to the argument of the book, Noam is about 15 cm tall dwarfs, wearing a red cocked hat. Nome most adults have, like the old man's face, but there children Noam exist, but it is very difficult to distinguish between adults and children. Four hundred years after the rapid aging, aging and ailing fairy. Promised the age of twelve will wet the bed, independent of their parents, married a hundred years or so before leaving. The adult Nome, president of the long white beard, female Nome face in the three hundred and fifty years ago are not hairy. Three hundred years of their prime period.

Nome in the ground to establish homes, and their home in the way of life and human is no big difference. In hysteria, they built baths, heaters, restaurants and wooden houses.

Firewood and food to obtain the necessities of life, Noam often went to the ground, looking for fruit and mushrooms. They will use the tool to work with their body. And they like to come out at night, also careful to eliminate their footprints, so it is hard to find them.