The story of Athena, the goddess of wisdom

Zeus married Metis, and Metis once escaped his pursuit through various changes. Gaia predicted that after Metis gave birth to her first daughter, she would give birth to a son and become the king of God. Because of fear, Zeus swallowed her.

Zeus had a terrible headache when he was about to have a baby. Hephaestus split his head with an axe, so Athena jumped out of his head. Metis stayed in Zeus' mind and gave him advice.

2, the patron saint

The legend that Athena became the patron saint of Athens is related to the competition between the goddess and Poseidon. When Athens was first built by Phoenicians, Poseidon and Athena competed for the honor of naming it. People who can provide the most useful things for mankind will become the patron saint of the city. Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and made a war horse.

On the other hand, Athena became an olive tree-a symbol of peace and prosperity. Because war horses are considered to represent war and sorrow, Athens is named after the goddess. The goddess soon put the city under her protection. On the Acropolis, there is still one of the most famous buildings in ancient Greece-the Parthenon dedicated to the goddess Athena.

3. Goddess of Justice

Agamemnon was killed by the lover of his wife Clytaemestra. Afterwards, Apollo told Agamemnon's son Orestes the truth and ordered him to take revenge. The Queen cursed Orestes for being punished by the Nemesis. The curse took effect after her death. Orestes left his kingdom and escaped revenge under the protection of Apollo.

Apollo sent Orestes to Athens to seek Athena's fair trial. After Athena knew what had happened, she decided to call the human judge * * * to try the case.

The smartest judge in Athens came to listen to this case; Nemesis said that the queen killed her husband instead of a blood relative, but the defendant killed a blood relative and the defendant should be killed. The cycle of vendetta in this family will never get rid of. Apollo, the defendant's defender, stressed that the Queen committed the crime of "intentional murder" and the defendant only fulfilled the obligation of revenge for the child.

Athena announced that the judges voted to solve the case, and each judge got two stones-black for guilt and white for innocence. All the judges voted at the end of the voting, and the number of black and white stones was exactly the same. So Athena made a ruling. Athena dropped a white stone and declared Orestes innocent according to the majority's decision, thus ending the vicious circle of vendetta for generations.

After the incident, ancient Greek poets believed that Athena was also the goddess of justice. Unlike Simis, the goddess of order, Simis was born in Mother Earth, representing the change of the seasonal order of the earth.

4. Prophet

The gods attended the wedding of Harmonia, the daughter of Cadmus and Aphrodite. Athena planned the territory of the city of Tebai and gave Cadmus a country.

The mother of Tiresias, the prophet of the city of Tiber, is the goddess Carrikro of Shui Ze and a good friend of Athena. Tiresias accidentally saw Athena's nakedness. Athena immediately put her hand over his eyes, but he was blind.

Carico asked the goddess to help her son recover, but the goddess didn't have the ability. She can only compensate Tiresias for his prophetic ability, make him the greatest prophet, understand the language of birds, live forever in the underworld, and give him a walking stick and a guide.

5. Battle of the Elves

In the battle between the gods and the child prodigy, because it was predicted that the Olympians would win the final victory only if mortals were allowed to participate in the war, Athena called Hercules from the mortal world and asked him to participate in the war.

Pointed out Alcyoneus's weakness to him. Take off the skin of the giant pallas on the battlefield and put it on the shield for protection in battle. And lifted Sicily to Mount Etna and threw it on Enceladus to kill him.

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