It is cooking and apocalypse. . . . It is well-being and respect. It is a tutelary and a terrible good, good and evil. In Prometheus's case, fire and lightning indicate intuition, the idea bursting upon him as a flash. . . . Fire was so powerful a force that it could not be touched. . . .
Fire is equally powerful as cognition.
Prometheus's titanic characteristics aroused dissatisfaction with the social structure of his day and prevented him from yielding to Zeus's established order. What was paradoxical and made Prometheus unique among the Titans was the fact that he was conscious of his act and of its many consequences. He was both fire as energy and power, fire as intellect and rational principle, as is the individual who strikes out on his own on a psychological, aesthetic, philosophical, scientific, or religious level. He, too, may possess that titanic fire that urges him to liberate his vision. Banned ad server hosts.