Korean–English parallel text
프로메테우스 이야기
The Story of Prometheus
James Baldwin (1841–1925)
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Opening the reader…
I. 인간에게 불이 전해진 이야기
I. HOW FIRE WAS GIVEN TO MEN.
아주 먼 옛날, 다른 인간들과도 다르고 산꼭대기에 사는 전능한 존재들과도 다른 두 형제가 살았다.
In those old, old times, there lived two brothers who were not like other men, nor yet like those Mighty Ones who lived upon the mountain top.
형제는 주피터에 맞서 싸우다가 지하 세계의 튼튼한 감옥에 사슬로 묶여 갇힌 티탄족의 아들들이었다.
They were the sons of one of those Titans who had fought against Jupiter and been sent in chains to the strong prison-house of the Lower World.
형의 이름은 ‘먼저 생각하는 사람’이라는 뜻의 프로메테우스였다. 그는 늘 미래를 생각하며 내일이나 다음 주, 내년, 혹은 백 년 뒤에 일어날 일까지 미리 준비했기 때문이다.
The name of the elder of these brothers was Prometheus, or Forethought; for he was always thinking of the future and making things ready for what might happen to-morrow, or next week, or next year, or it may be in a hundred years to come.
동생은 ‘나중에 생각하는 사람’이라는 뜻의 에피메테우스라고 불렸다. 그는 언제나 어제나 작년, 백 년 전의 일만 생각하느라 앞으로 일어날 일에는 전혀 관심이 없었기 때문이다.
The younger was called Epimetheus, or Afterthought; for he was always so busy thinking of yesterday, or last year, or a hundred years ago, that he had no care at all for what might come to pass after a while.
주피터는 무슨 이유에서인지 이들 형제를 다른 티탄족과 함께 감옥에 보내지 않았다.
For some cause Jupiter had not sent these brothers to prison with the rest of the Titans.
프로메테우스는 산꼭대기의 구름 사이에서 살고 싶어 하지 않았다. 그럴 시간이 없을 만큼 바빴기 때문이다.
Prometheus did not care to live amid the clouds on the mountain top. He was too busy for that.
전능한 신들이 넥타르를 마시고 암브로시아를 먹으며 한가롭게 시간을 보내는 동안, 그는 세상을 그 어느 때보다 더 지혜롭고 살기 좋게 만들 계획에 몰두했다.
While the Mighty Folk were spending their time in idleness, drinking nectar and eating ambrosia, he was intent upon plans for making the world wiser and better than it had ever been before.
그는 사람들과 함께 살며 돕기 위해 그들 곁으로 갔다. 사투르누스가 다스리던 황금기처럼 사람들이 더는 행복하지 않다는 것을 알고 마음이 슬픔으로 가득 찼기 때문이다. 아, 사람들은 정말 가난하고 비참했다!
He went out amongst men to live with them and help them; for his heart was filled with sadness when he found that they were no longer happy as they had been during the golden days when Saturn was king. Ah, how very poor and wretched they were!
그는 동굴과 땅속 구덩이에서 살아가는 사람들을 보았다. 불이 없어 추위에 떨고, 굶어 죽어가며, 들짐승과 서로에게 쫓기는 세상에서 가장 비참한 존재들이었다.
He found them living in caves and in holes of the earth, shivering with the cold because there was no fire, dying of starvation, hunted by wild beasts and by one another—the most miserable of all living creatures.
“불만 있다면 적어도 몸을 녹이고 음식을 익혀 먹을 수 있을 텐데. 그러다 보면 도구를 만들고 집을 짓는 법도 배울 수 있을 테고. 불이 없으니 짐승보다도 못한 처지구나.” 프로메테우스는 혼잣말을 했다.
“If they only had fire,” said Prometheus to himself, “they could at least warm themselves and cook their food; and after a while they could learn to make tools and build themselves houses. Without fire, they are worse off than the beasts.”
그러고는 용기를 내어 주피터에게 가서, 길고 쓸쓸한 겨울 동안 사람들이 조금이라도 편안하게 지낼 수 있도록 불을 달라고 간청했다.
Then he went boldly to Jupiter and begged him to give fire to men, that so they might have a little comfort through the long, dreary months of winter.
“불씨 하나도 줄 수 없다.” 주피터가 말했다. “절대로 안 돼! 인간들이 불을 가지면 우리처럼 강하고 지혜로워져서, 머지않아 우리를 왕국에서 쫓아낼지도 몰라. 그냥 추위에 떨게 두고, 짐승처럼 살게 내버려 둬라.
“Not a spark will I give,” said Jupiter. “No, indeed! Why, if men had fire they might become strong and wise like ourselves, and after a while they would drive us out of our kingdom. Let them shiver with cold, and let them live like the beasts.
인간들은 가난하고 무지해야 해. 그래야 우리 전능한 신들이 번영하고 행복할 수 있으니까.”
It is best for them to be poor and ignorant, that so we Mighty Ones may thrive and be happy.”
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