“The walls of pride are high and wide
Can't see over to the other side”

Bob Dylan-"Cold Irons Bound", Time Out of Mind

Pride plays a prominent role in the myths of “Prometheus”,“The Archer and the Moon Goddess”, as well as “Nanabush Creates the World”. Though the excess of pride is almost universally condemned, in the myth "Prometheus" however, although it leads to Prometheus's suffering, his excessive pride and defiance are clearly praised, though, perhaps, with some reservations. In the myth, Prometheus provokes Zeus by making mankind an upright shape like that of the gods. Then, disobeying Zeus’s orders. He steals fire from Hephaestus and brings it to mankind. Zeus is bitter about the great advantages that Prometheus has given mankind,