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At Zeus’s command, Prometheus fashioned human beings and beasts. But when Zeus saw that the creatures without reason far outnumbered the humans, he ordered Prometheus to undo some of the beasts and reshape them into human beings. Prometheus did as he was told, and so it came about that those fashioned from these beasts had human forms but savage souls.

The fable is a rebuke to those who are brutal and quick to anger.