s not always shown being statue like
             and passive. On the contrary in about half the pieces surveyed in
             researching this paper, she was posed with her hands extended, often rising
             out of the ground itself. There is something very peculiar about the fact
             that she is pictured rising out of the ground. Though Hesiod does claim she
             was fashioned out of clay, he attributes this work to the smith god, who
             one assumes would have gathered together his material and worked his art
             upon it. The idea that she slowly grew whole from the ground is much more
             organic than this story implies, and it subtly suggests an alternative
             On several vases where she is thus pictured rising from the ground,
             Pandora is alternatively referred to as Anesidora, which means the "sender
             up of gifts." This is striking because Anesidora is a traditional "true
             epithet of the Earth-Mother... [and] in addition, the jar Pandora opens is
             the pithos, or storage jar usually used...to hold the food (bios) from the
             earth." (Webster) It seems that at least in some cla
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