MYTH - Athens
Zeus being a great conqueror, fell in love with a Metis, goddess of wisdom and prudence, and this pregnant. However, Uranus and Gaia warned him that Metis have a daughter first and then a son, who was to dethrone him - as he did with his father.
He was very apprehensive, and to prevent this prophecy, waited for Metis and swallowed sleeping her pregnant. Some time later, he had a headache so terrible that came out to yell for the Earth. So Hermes brought Hephaestus to save his father.
At the lakeside Trit?nio, the artisan opened the head of Zeus with a coup ax and then left Athens, already dressed in armor, helmet, shield and weapons, and giving a war cry so loud it shook the heaven and earth.
Athena's father inherited the power, and had emerged from their meninges, that power was mental.
The mother, assimilated prudence and wisdom. The goddess was like the light through the clouds, illuminating the darkness.
In the Iliad, was referred to as the goddess of bright eyes, an association with the eyes of the owl, bird he was devoted.
Athena was known for his skill as a strategist and his practical solutions. As a former goddess of fertility, had a quality of mental creation. As the goddess of wisdom, intelligence socialized and had a capacity of a summary from the discussion.
Athena won the right to eternal virginity to fulfill its function as a warrior, although the war was only when forced. But its military activity, marked by bravery, it was tempered caution, for the loyalty and the defense of the ideals. Loathe him the cruelty, the barbarity, the thirst for blood and carnage.
Defender of justice and harmony, was sensitive enough to provoke fights. Athena was also a great diplomat, and always sought to resolve issues between the gods and men, as a mediator.
Athena was the goddess of reason, balance, the creative spirit. Regent of the Arts, Literature and all of the activities of the spirit.
His character was more rational affinity with the philosophy than to poetry and music. The goddess would prefer a male company.
It was called by the Greeks of "companion of heroes." Being a virgo goddess, it was easy to avoid the emotional and sexual involvement with men, preferring to fight alongside them.
