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Many stories have been passed down from generations and generations and have been spread worldwide these stories are famously know and cheriushed in different places. Others on the other hand have been lost and trapped in lost artwork and forgotten in time these are some of the know stories.

Arachne:
Arachne was a young woman who was rather good at weaving. People thought she was brilliant and she started to get a big head. She then started to brag that she was even better than Athena, the goddess of wisdom and was the best at weaving, and when Athena caught wind of this she went to see if it was true. When she found it was she was angry so she challenged Arachne to a contest of weaving. If Athena's weaving was better, Arachne would suffer whatever punishment Athena deemed fit. Arachne took the challenge and the two had a competion. Arachne's weaving was was flawless (though no one knows if it was better than Athena's) and Athena was angry with what she weaved and tore the tapestry and destroyed the loom. She then made Arachne feel guilty but it was to much and Arachne hung herself. Athena felt pity on her and brought her back as a spider.

Pandora's Box
The gods had made human, all men, and Prometheus gave them fire, which he wasn't supposed to give them. Prometheus was punished but man was to be punished too. The first woman, Pandora, was sent down to Earth with gifts from the gods, one of which was a box she was not to open. She started to get curious of what was in the box and tried hiding it but her curiosity got too strong and she opened it. Out of the box flew all the bad things, diseases, deaths and other things and Pandora quickly closed the box before the last thing could fly out. Unfortunitly, the thing left inside the box was hope, so the world was in chaos and turmoil with no hope at all.

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