Athena

=**Athena is the goddess of wisdom, war, and arts. ** =



**__Appearance__**
Athena is a majestic goddess in her hand she holds a spear and a shield and, on top of her head lays a helmet and her breasts arecovered by a breast plate. She is also accompanied by a small owl.

**__Symbol's__**
The owl symbols watchfulness and wisdom, the aegis (small shield) showing the snaking head of medusa. Powers Athena is a unique goddess she was a warrior goddess but also a virgin goddess which meant she was whole to herself. She had traits that included integration of masculine but still feminine qualities: like strength, intellect, and compassion. Athena expressed the Greek ideal of rationality and power. She represented courage and victory.

**__ Strengths __** Rational, Intelligent, a powerful defender in war but also a potent peace maker.

__**Weaknesses**__
Reason rules her; She is not usually emotional or compassionate but she does not have her favorite, such as the beleaguered heroes Odysseus and Peruses.

__** Teacher **__
She was taught by the river god Triton. Athena became good friends with his daughter Pallas but accidentally killed her during one of their battle games.

__**Myths**__
Athena and Poseidon were both devoted of the city Greece. They challenged that whoever gave the greatest gift would have claim over the city. Poseidon opened a well on the side of the Acropolis but the water had a salty taste to it. Athena though planted an olive tree that symbolizes the Greek Tree of Life. Athena’s gift would be much more useful for the people, it was decided Athena was the winner and became the city’s protectress and thence named the city Athens.

Zeus was afraid that if his wife had a boy then it would grow up to dethrone him, so Zeus swallowed his wife. After nine months Zeus got a strong pain in his head he asked the God’s smith Hephaestus to comfort him. He opened up Zeus’s head with an axe without hurting him, and then out of Zeus’s head came goddess Athena, she was already an adult holding a shield in her hands and saying warlike cries.