Athena -goddess
The goddess of war, handicrafts, wisdom and self-realization. The portrait of Athena found in poetry and art is exceptionally accurate for the Greek people as a whole, perhaps because Greek poets and artists tended, like Athena, to belong to society and civilization and not like Artemis, like the wilderness. Even the goddess as she was before Homer, the goddess whom archeology and linguistics must reconstruct, finds close reflection in Homer's pages. When during 2nd millenium B.C. the Greeks settled the peninsula to which they later gave their name, they probably found Athena's worship's already established, in Crete if not on the main land. The pre-Greek Minoan Cretans worshiped a snake goddess who protected the home and who, like other Minoan deities, was thought to appear among men in the shape of a bird; snake and bird attributes as well as bird epiphany are especially characteristics of Athena as she appears in Homers and afterward. The Minoans worshiped their goddess in recessed sanctuaries in their palaces, her priest being the master of the house or, in palaces, the king. Then, probably, with the dissolution of the Mycenaean society around 1100-1000 B.C. and the migration of the Greeks across the Aegean to Asia Minor, A
Adrian, Room. Classical Mythology, NTC. 1997. Willian, Halsey D. "Athena", Colliers. 1966. And from this wisdom came the knowledge from which Athena developed. This myth in some tellings develops the story of ZEUS having violent headaches that made him howl with pain and rage. HERMES found him on the baks of the Triton River and summoned HEPHAETUS to help relieve his pain. More generally, when divinity apeared and inspired a man to great acomplisments of heart and hand working together, than that was Athena. This makes it easier to understand why the war delty should be a female: in Greek religion, as in medival chivalaric romance, "the unflagging will victory . . . is woman's gift to man" (W.F. Otto, The Homeric Gods, pg. Translation by M.Hadas, published by Yet elsewhere in the Iliad Athena is indeed the dispenser of prudent ,restrain and practical insight. She warns Odysseus not to assault Sarpedon and his unite, she descends to Achilles and in timeless moment convinces him not to turn his sword against Agamemnon. As she elsewhere guides the hand to act, so here she can guide the mind to check it from action. In the last half of the Odyssey she leads Odysseus st. As goddess of love she brought destruction to many of her lovers, of whom the most notable was her consort Tammuz. Willian, Benton. "Athena", "Athenaeum", "Minerva", Britannica.1768.
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