Element fire
fire has been the center of tail and folklore in every culture around the globe scene the berth of man.,
role in the past
how fire was brought to man varies from culture to culture. However the Greek mythology makes for a good mediator. According to the Greeks…
Zeus sent most of the Titans to Tartarus [see Hades' Realm] to punish them for fighting against him in the Titanomachy, but since second-generation Titan Prometheus had not sided with his aunts, uncles, and brother Atlas, Zeus spared him. Zeus then assigned Prometheus the task of forming man from water and earth, which Prometheus did, but in the process, became fonder of men than Zeus had anticipated. Zeus didn’t share Prometheus’ feelings and wanted to prevent men from having power, especially over fire. Prometheus cared more for man than for the wrath of the increasingly powerful and autocratic king of the gods, so he stole fire from Zeus’ lightning, concealed it in a hollow stalk of fennel, and brought it to man. The next stage in Prometheus’ career as benefactor of mankind came when Zeus and he were developing the ceremonial forms for animal sacrifice. The astute Prometheus devised a sure-fire way to help man. He divided the slaughtered animal parts into two packets. In one was the ox-meat and innards wrapped up in the stomach lining. In the other packet were the ox-bones wrapped up in its own rich fat. One would go to the gods and the other to the humans making the sacrifice. Prometheus presented Zeus with a choice between the two, and Zeus took the deceptively richer appearing: the fat-encased, but inedible bones.As a result of Prometheus’ trick, for ever after, whenever man sacrificed to the gods, he would be able to feast on the meat, so long as he burned the bones as an offering for the gods. http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/prometheus.htm
So we did not invent fire. We captured (stole, seduced, tricked, pried, wrested) it away from nature. (hence the mythology) This was a profound moment for the natural history of the Earth because it changed how and where fire worked. Natural fire is lumpy. Naturally ignited fire occurs in patches and pulses, driven by a two-cycle climatic engine of wetting and drying, shaped by the kinds of biomass that may or may not thrive under such a regime, waiting on lightning’s lottery to kindle. Much of the Earth doesn’t burn. It is too wet, too icy, too sparsely vegetated. Over much of early Earth history the mix so often failed to kindle that vast quantities of biomass were simply buried. Nature’s economy, in brief, lacked a broker that could match flame with fuel.
(We didn’t invent fire as we did things to make and use it, like candles and matches. It was already out there–has been on the planet for at least 400 million years. And it will outlive us, all of our monuments, all our words. When the Earth itself ends, it will likely do so in a flash of solar fire. But fire’s Earthly origins were far less explosive.) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0GER/is_1999_Winter/ai_58458600/
role in the present
After we harnessed fire, i.e. we were toe meadator for nature… devlope
we as a spiecies began to use fire in emaculate ways outside of smelting, cooking and wormth. The internal combustion engine is sureely a marvle…. ( devlope)
Petrol(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum) devlope
role in the foreseeable future
Nucular( devlope)
Solar(devlope)
conclusion
Fire can be a friendly, comforting thing, a source of heat and light, as anyone who has ever sat by a campfire in the dark of night knows. Yet fire can also be dangerous and deadly, racing and leaping like a living thing to consume all in its path. In mythology, fire appears both as a creative, cleansing force and as a destructive, punishing one, although positive aspects of fire generally outweigh negative ones.
Fire is the god gift of man, the mediator of to opposites. Both creation and destruction are reared as inevitable after berths once anything is adorned in flame.
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