Part 1 of Essay
When the war between the Titans and the Gods was over, Zeus had commanded the two conquered Titans Prometheus and Epimetheus to create a new being, one of higher intelligence, that could rule over the animals but be the slaves to the Gods. Prometheus and Epimetheus agreed, and Prometheus got some dust from the Earth, mix ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... being of higher intelligence would not be created, a smarter animal would. And so they argued, and all through their arguments earthquakes could be felt throughout the earth. This was because the clay that Prometheus had fashioned had continuously been changed and changed again into many shapes during the course of their argument. In the beginning, it was just a lump of clay. Then Epimetheus fashioned it into a shape of a man, in the image of the Prometheus twisted it into a beast of burden, like an animal. ....