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The Greek god Prometheus championed the cause of humans against the gods. The gods became jealous of the success of mankind and demanded more offerings in order to try and starve humans into submission. A meeting was arranged by Prometheus to decide which parts of sacrificial victims were to be given to the gods.
Prometheus prepared an ox and arranged the most succulent parts of the meat in the skin of the ox and placed them at one side. The bones he covered with a layer of fat. Zeus chose the tempting fat portion but, when he delved further and found nothing but bones, he flew into a rage.
In his anger at being tricked, Zeus deprived mankind of fire but the resourceful Prometheus went to the island of Lemnos. Stealing a spark of the holy fire, Prometheus enclosed it in the hollow stem of a fennel plant and transported it back to men.
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