"Mike is our Prometheus - but remember, Prometheus was not God.  Mike keeps emphasizing this.  Thou art God, I am God, he is God that groks.  Mike is a man along with the rest of us... even though he knows more.  A very superior man, admittedly - a lesser man, taught the things the Martians know, probably would have set himself up as a pipsqueak god.  Mike is above that temptation.  Prometheus... but that's all,"