Pandora (New Earth)

Pandora, whose name means "the gift of all" and is the "living embodiment of all that is woman", was created long ago by Hephaestus and blessed by the Gods under order of Zeus. To punish the hero Prometheus, who stole fire from the Gods to give to men, Zeus offered her along with a box to him as a punishment disguised as a gift. Prometheus rejected her, but she was accepted by his brother Epimetheus, and, living among men, Pandora, overcome by curiosity, eventually opened the box that Zeus expressly forbade her from opening, releasing all evil into the world.

According to Ananke the Fate, however, Pandora was actually an emanation of the Earth Mother Gaea who, attending to the needs of the still young humanity, manifested herself as Pandora, the Maiden-Mother, and from her Urn of Plenty she brought forth all manner of fruits of the earth. She also taught them how to make fire, and, the urn now empty, she shattered it and from it she blessed humanity with all the virtues necessary to evolve as a civilization.

Ages pass, the Olympians defeat the Titans and Zeus shares the domains of the Earth with his brothers, rewriting the history of the beginning of humanity with his own version: the great Pandora is changed and diminished. No longer earth-born, but the handwork of Zeus, remade into the beautiful evil. Woman, who was the inspirer, is the temptress; she who was the source is the sorceress, who brings to man no joy, but misery. She is turned out from humanity, shunned by Olympus.

Pandora was then forced to wander the lands as a reviled figure until she was assimilated back into Earth by Gaea at her behest, and it is suggested that she would be reborn again from clay as Diana of Themyscyra.^[2]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Divine Empowerment
- Immortality
- Divine Grace

Abilities

Artistry: As part of her blessing by Athena, Pandora was gifted with industrious artistry prowess upon her creation
Charisma

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Pandora's Box

Notes

This character or object is an adaptation of Pandora, a character or object in traditional stories. These include, but may not be limited to religious texts, myth, and/or folk lore. More information on the original can be found at Wikipedia.org.
Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-Two era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985–86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and no longer apply.

Trivia

As the one who unleashed evil upon the world, Pandora's myth has crossed paths with that of Eve's, and used interchangeably.^[3]

Pandora (New Earth)

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