Athena, (Greek Ἀθηνά Athēná or Ἀθήνη Athénē; Doric: Ἀσάνα Asána), the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war associated by the Etruscans with their goddess Menrva, and later by the Romans as Minerva, is attended by an owl, wore a goatskin breastplate called the Aegis given to her by her father and is accompanied by the goddess of victory, N ...

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Athena:

The Greek Goddess of wisdom. A virgin goddess, gentle, fair and thoughtful, Athena was the Goddess of wisdom, skill, and contemplation. She was also the Goddess of storms and the thunderbolt, spinning and weaving, of horticulture and agriculture. Roman Goddess Minerva.

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ATHENA (Athene) - 1. Greek Goddess of Wisdom and held back the dawn for Odysseus and Penelope.

2. a feminine archetype expressed by a women interested in a kind of male power, philosophy and consciousness (Robert Bly) (NAD)

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I am Lady Master Venus, on behalf of the hierarchy of Venus. I wish to speak to all lightworkers who have devoted their unending service in courage, transmuting and transcending the old paradigms and activating the new grids on this planet. This is indeed a time of Great Creation and Birthing of the Grand Renaissance of Enlightenment, which will accelerate this planet's ascension in the coming year and years, approaching 2012 and beyond.

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Athena has no Greek etymology, and probably was already a goddess in the Aegean before the coming of the Greeks, although her name is not attested in Eteocretan. She has been compared to Anatolian mother goddesses like Cybele, her name possibly of Lydian origin (G. Neumann, Kadmos 6, 1967), and her byname Pallas has been compared to Hittite palahh, a divine raiment [1]. In Mycenaean Greek, A-ta-na-po-ti-ni-ja /Athana potniya/ (Mistress Athena) is referred to in the Knossos Linear B text V 2. and A-ta-no- ...

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Athena, Athena - History, Athena - Athena in art, Athena - Appellations, Athena - Episodes, Athena - Erichthonius, Athena - Athens, Athena - Arachne, Athena - Perseus and Medusa, Athena - Heracles, Athena - Tiresias and Chariclo, Athena - Miscellaneous

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"Athena" and "Phevos" (Greek Αθηνά and Φοίβος; pronounced /aθiˈna/ and /ˈfivos/) were the Olympic mascots for the 2004 Summer Olympics, held at Athens. Phevos is a transcription of the modern Greek pronunciation of Phoebus, an epithet of Apollo. The mascots (above right) were named after Greek gods of wisdom (Athena) and light and music (Phevos, or Phoebus).The two mascots were paired as brother and sister and were very loosely modeled after an ancient Greek terra cotta d ...

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Aphaea (gr. Aphaia; not dark or vanisher) was a Greek goddess who was worshipped almost exclusively on the island of Aegina. She later came to be identified with the goddesses Athena and Artemis and with the nymph Britomartis. On the Greek island of Aegina there is a ruin of the Temple of Aphaea. Other related archivesAegina, Artemis, Athena, Britomartis, Greek, Greek goddess

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Arachne, or Arakhne was a woman from Greek mythology, the daughter of Idmon of Colophon in Lydia, a dyer in purple. She was a fine weaver who began claiming that her skill was greater than Athena's, the goddess of weaving (among other responsibilities). Athena was angered, but gave Arachne a chance to redeem herself. Assuming the form of an old woman, she warned Arachne not to offend the gods. Arachne scoffed and wished for a weaving contest, so she could prove her skill. Athena dropped her disguise and the contest began ...

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In Greek mythology, Chariclo was a nymph. With Chiron, she was the mother of Ocyrhoe. She was also the mother of Tiresias, who was struck blind by Athena. She begged Athena to give him sight back, but the goddess could not undo her curse. She gave him the gift of prophecy instead. The relatively large Centaur (planetoid) 10199 Chariklo is named after this figure. Category: Nymphs ...

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Aglaulus is a figure in Greek mythology, daughter of Cecrops. According to Apollodorus, Hephaestus attempted to rape Athena but was unsuccessful. His semen fell on the ground, impregnating Gaia. Gaia didn't want the infant Erichthonius, so she gave the baby to Athena. Athena gave three sisters: Herse, Pandrosus and Aglaulus the baby in a small box and warned them to never open it. Aglaulus and Herse opened the box which contained the infant and future-king, Erichthonius. The sight caused Herse and Aglaulus to go insa ...

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Theomachy is a reference to battles fought between Greek Olympians themselves. In the Iliad, two theomachies occur. One is fought between Diomedes with the direct aid of Athena against Ares. Ares is wounded by the spear guided by Athena, this is the first theomachy to occur chronologically in the Iliad. The second occurs between Hera and Artemis. This battle is shown by Homer to be almost playful as Hera is smiling while she boxed Artemis' ...

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In Greek mythology, the name Butes referred to four different people. Aphrodite's lover and a Sicilian king. He was the father of Eryx by Aphrodite. Boreas' son. He offended Dionysus and was made insane. Son of Pandion and Zeuxippe. He was a priest of Poseidon and Athena and was worshipped as a hero by the Athenians. An Argonaut, son of Teleon. Categories: Greek mythological people | Sicilian characters in Greek mythology

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The term Bird goddess was coined by Marija Gimbutas with relation to Neolithic Europe. The Vinca culture, in particular, had a bird goddess. Griffen (2005) even claims to have discovered a sign for the bird goddess in the Vinca script. Later goddesses with associations with birds include Nuit, Lilitu and Athena [1] and perhaps Circe. Gimbutas also identified a "Lady of the Beasts" (the female analogon of Pashupati) ...

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The name Cecrops means 'face with a tail' and it is said that this mythical Greek king, born from the earth itself, had his top half shaped like a man and the bottom half in serpent or fish-tail form. He was first king and founder of Athens itself, though preceded in the region by earth-born Actaeus, king of Attica. Cecrops was a culture-hero, teaching the Athenians marriage, reading and writing, and ceremonial burial. During his reign Athena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens in a competition with Poseidon which C ...

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Pyromancy (from Greek 'pyros', fire, and 'manteia', divination) is the art of divination by means of fire. Pyromancy - History of Pyromancy. Due to the importance of fire in society from the earliest of times, it is quite likely that pyromancy was one of the earlier forms of divination. It is said that in Greek society, virgins at the Temple of Athena in Athens regularly practiced pyromancy. It is also possible that followers of Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire and the forge, practiced pyromancy.Including:

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9 Metis (mee'-tis) is one of the largest Main belt asteroids. It is composed of silicates and metallic nickel-iron. Metis was discovered by Andrew Graham on April 25, 1848; his only asteroid discovery. It is also the only asteroid to have been discovered as a result of observations from Ireland. Its name comes from the mythological Metis, a Titaness, daughter of Tethys and Oceanus (and thus an Oceanid), who was the first wife of Zeus and the mother of Athena. Zeus devoured he ...

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Phoebus is the Latin form of Greek Phoibos 'Shining-one', a by-name used in classical mythology for the god Apollo. Under the alternative spelling Phevos (pron. Fivos) and together with Athena, he was a mascot of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Classical Latin poets also used Phoebus as a by-name for the sun-god, whence common references in later European poetry to Phoebus and his car ("chariot") as a metaphor for the sun. But in mythological texts the Sun-god and Apollo are otherwise not confused or identified. For example, in Ovid's Metamorphoses the hero Phaeton is son of P ...

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A legendary hero in Greek mythology, Akademos (originally Hekademos) or, less correctly, Academus was linked to the archaic name for the site of Plato's Academy, the Hekademeia, outside the walls of Athens. By classical times the name of the place had evolved into the Akademeia and was explained by linking it to an eponymous Athenian hero, a legendary "Akademos," at least as early as the beginning of the 6th century BC. The site was sacred to Athena and other immortals; it had sheltered religious cult since ...

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In Greek mythology Kālypsō (Greek: 'Καλυψώ', 'I will conceal'), or Calypso, was a sea nymph, daughter of Atlas, who delayed Odysseus on her dark and depressing island (Ogygia) for seven years. Athena intervened and asked Zeus to order her to let him go. Zeus sent Hermēs and Kalypsō reluctantly agreed. She had promised him immortality if he stayed. He left to be with his beloved Penelope. Kalypsō died in grief. With Odysseus, she was the mother of Nausinous. Homer, O ...

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480 BC - Events. King Xerxes I of Persia sets out to conquer Greece. Cimon and his friends burn horse-bridles as an offering to Athena and join the marines August 11 - The Battle of Thermopylae, a victory by Persians over the Greek Pleistarchus succeeds his father Leonidas I as king of Sparta. August - Battle of Artemisium - The Persian fleet fights an inconclusive battle with the Greek allied fleet. September 23 - Battle of Salamis between Greece and Persia, lea ...

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