Pandoras Pass these little evils - a hope at the bottom', he then names it Pandoras Pass. This is a reference to the Greek myth of Pandora's box, this myth refers to a vessel which contained all the evils of the world. When Pandora opened the jar, all its contents except for one item were released into the world. The one remaining item was hope. The following memorandum, written on parchment, was enclosed in a bottle, and buried under a marked tree in the Pandora Pass: Pandoras Pass The Pandoras Pass, also Brennans Gap and Pandora's Pass is a mountain pass across
Pandora this woman a name: Pandora – "All-gifted" – "because all the Olympians gave her a gift" (81). (In Greek, "Pandora" has an active rather than a passive meaning; hence, Pandora properly means "All-giving." The implications of this mistranslation are explored in "All-giving Pandora: mythic inversion?" below.) In this retelling of her story, Pandora's deceitful feminine nature becomes the least of humanity's worries. For she brings with her a jar (which, due to textual corruption in the sixteenth century, came to be called a box) containing "burdensome toil and sickness that brings death to men" (91–2), diseases (102) and "a myriad