Katy wrote:One was wondering why Promethius and Odin are generally liked by humanity, while Lucifer is evil. I was trying to see if I could link it to what they did with the knowledge (why I was talking about teaching...) but couldn't.
I don't think it's what they did with knowledge that is the definitive difference, but each culture's attitude to knowledge. The dogma of abrahamic religions disdains knowledge of the world, and sees faith and divine favor as being more important than anything else. In a sense, all the abrahamic religions are world-transcending and life-denying, they look beyond this world, beyond its struggles and sorrows and triumphs, xianity and islam much more so than judaism.
This I think is what makes a difference, not what humans did with that knowledge. Abrahamic religions don't believe humans did anything particular with that knowledge (unlike Prometheus teaching people to work fire and forge, and Odin teaching people to work writing and magic) because abrahamic religions don't believe the worldly knowledge to me worth much. IMO, what each religion sees being done with knowledge, is a derivative factor of how each mythos sees knowledge itself.