JUL 8, mythed opportunities: Pandora and her box

a) Reprise from material posted on July 8 in previous years ...

2020: bi-lyrical limerick, dual-rhyme schemes (poem)
2021: clot or not, pulmonary embolism (poem) 
2022: poets' corner, HELD (poem)
2023: waterfowl, roseate spoonbills (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jul 8, 2024): 

  

Authors' Note: The Greek myth of Pandora addresses the question of why there is evil in the world. Zeus had Pandora created as the first human female. She was given a jar (misinterpreted millenia later as a box) that contained all of life's evils, with careful direction to guard them. She opened the jar out of curiosity, releasing most of its regrettable contents, thereby infesting subsequent generations of humanity. But one item — hope — was kept inside.

In various ethnic superstitions, apotropaic (protective) magic is invoked to counter a malevolent spiritual force that takes away human good fortune if it is celebrated too loudly. This influence presumably underlies the popular Yiddish expression keyn ay(i)n horah (corrupted to keneinahora or kinahora, even KH in Anglo-Yiddish) translated directly as "no evil eye"; this expression is often invoked when a praiseworthy person or attribute is mentioned.

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