Horror Haiku Club Prompt
June 29 - Pandora
The story of Pandora willfully opening a box to unleash horrors on the world is a later version of the original story.
Your prompt is PANDORA.
Cursed automaton
Programed to deliver hell
And reviled for it
In the first story Zeus was angry with Prometheus for giving fire to man, and decided to punish man by ordering Hephaestus to create a creature out of clay called Pandora, the first woman. In Hesiod’s Theogony she is referred to as, “beautiful evil,” and… is the box.
All-gifted you were,
Endowed by gods with graces
And ills in a jar
All-gifted woman,
Anesidora, gave up
Evil to the world