Pallas Athena

Pallas Athena

Athena, my greek goddess archetype. Athene or Athena has been my goddess of choice ever since i learned mythology, or even before that. i amy have been the goddess athena herself, a reincarnate; stripped of the divine powers but not of the divine knowledge.

ok. pardon the exaggeration but thats how i want to think about why i chose athena to be my goddess archetype.

Athena the daughter of Zeus, the Olympian God, is the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, Justice, War and the Patron of Crafts. Her city is Athens and her favorite tree or the tree identified with athena is the olive tree. She is mostly identified with the owl and she carries the aegis or the shield of Zeus with the head of the gorgon Medusa. In most accounts, Athena was known to have emerged from the forehead of Zeus. "Zeus suffered a great headache and just when his forehead was splitting, out sprung a fully grownAthena in her glorious countenance". However it was also construed that Athena was the daughter of Zeus and the titan Metis. Zeus swallowed Metis because it has been prophesied the Metis will give birth to a child which will overthrow him. Metis was then pregnant with athena thus metis and athena were inside Zeus and when athena was born from metis she grew up there until the time when Athena went out through the forehead of Zeus.

Athena was one of the three virgin Godesses. Artemis and Hestia were the other 2. Athena was the one who helped protect Achilles and his army in the battle of Troy.

to be continued..

i still have to study my subjects so i will continue my account of athena.