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 24 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY of clay. Though he had previously been a friend of Zeus, he was now, in punishment for his deed, chained to a rock on Caucasus and tortured by an eagle which fed on his liver. It is Hephaestus who creates Pan- dora (' endowed by alP), the first woman, through whom, according to the familiar story of Pandora's box, all evils come upon the race of men created by Prome- theus. 35. With these gods of the thunderstorm, who are principally the embodiments of the lightning flash, are intimately associated a series of female divinities of the thunderstorm, in whom the appearance of the thunder- cloud comes into special prominence. Everywhere in Greece and in her colonies, but most of all in Athens, which was named for her, Athena (Lat. Minerva) was worshiped as the goddess that sends down lightning, rain, dew, and mist. She is designated as a goddess of the lightning by her epithet Pallas, 'the brandisher' of lightning, which is conceived of as a spear ; therefore in early times her statues, representing her with poised spear, were called Palladia. Like her father Zeus, she wears the Aegis, and with it the Gorgon's head (Gorgo- neiori), which, according to the Argive myth, she received from Perseus, but, according to the Attic myth, won for herself in single combat. 36. The three Gorgoiies (< Gorgons '), who live in the far west, especially one of them, the mortal Medusa, - are properly female representatives of the thunder- clouds ; but, like the Giants and the Cyclops, they embody only the terrible side of the phenomenon. Their vesture is as black as the thundercloud; their fiery glance turns to stone, as the lightning's stroke