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PANDORA BOX OR "KOTAK PANDORA"?

Some friends were asked me the meanings of "Kotak Pandora" and why my blog named such kind. Yes I love the Greek Mythology but I don't want adopt the myths for build up a whole lifetime of my blog with it, eventhough I am know it is very meaningful: "Pandora box" with its whole taboo secrets inside it. I know some of us are so curious.  What is that indeed in the Greek Myth of Pandora's? The container mentioned in the original story was actually a large storage jar but the word was later mistranslated as "box". In modern times an idiom has grown from it meaning "Any source of great and unexpected troubles" or alternatively "A present which seems valuable but which in reality is a curse". Later depictions of the fatal container have been very varied, while some literary and artistic treatments have focused more on the contents of the idiomatic box than on Pandora herself. There is also an alternative tradition in which the divine...