Greek Myth - How The Turtle Was Created

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clay
that Prometheus had fashioned had continuously been changed and changed
again into many shapes during the course of their argument. In the
beginning, it was just a lump of clay. Then Epimetheus fashioned it into a
shape of a man, in the image of the Prometheus twisted it into a beast of
burden, like an animal. Then Epimetheus twisted it back, and Prometheus
back, and so on, until the lump of clay that was formless and shapeless had
taken the look of a twisted, warped, God-shaped animal. It still had its
familiar lumpy look, but the limbs of countless animals and the heads of a
different men were still there. Prometheus and Epimetheus had argued long
and hard and the warped piece of clay showed it.

Zeus heard about this, and he confronted the two Titans.

"What is this?" Zeus thundered. "Is this to be the new being that is to
rule over the animals??? This is no more than a rock with legs! Banish it
to the sea, the land, and the watery valleys, for it is not suitable ...

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