ABSTRACT
Marriage and monogamy begin inauspiciously in myth and history, in the overthrow of the Mother and anger of the gods. In the Classic Greek Paradise Lost, Zeus creates the treacherous, beautiful Pandora to punish (male) humanity for receiving the stolen goods of fire - technology and power. Because they would be as gods. A custombuilt version of the Mother-goddess, Allgiver and allgiven, Pandora is made over as wife to Epimetheus. Chaos, evil and finitude are loosed on the world through her power and her demotion.
