Athena: By Samantha Babine and Jeel Mehta

Orgin: In the popular stories of Athena, She is one of the oldest Deities in the Greek pantheon and one of their most beloved Goddesses. In the classical Greek story of Athena’s birth, She was born from Zeus’s head.

Reign: Athena's reign as patron was most prosperous for Athens because she encouraged agriculture and industry along with her inventions of the plow, the rake, the chariot, and navigation. She kept order by fortifying the city and protecting it from enemies.

Song : "Athena" is a song written by Pete Townshend and recorded by The Who. The writer promptly fell in love with a beautiful women, and his frustration of being rejected is contained in this song.

Symbols: Athena is most vividly symbolized by the snake. The snake symbolizes protection, rebirth. Armor and weapons are also Athena’s symbols, wearing a helmet and carrying a shield or spear. An owl sits on the goddess’s shoulder. The owl’s wisdom is needed to keep Athena’s strong power in check.

Grey-eyed one, I sing of you,
wisest and most beautiful, relentless Athena,
protector of cities, strong-armed and fair.

From his head the great god birthed you,
dressed in golden armor and bearing a sharp spear.

The holy mountains shook when you were born,
and the earth quaked, and the sea’s dark waves broke against the land.

Even the sun stopped in astonishment at this sight,
this goddess, fresh-born and strong.

Hail to you, Athena, may I never live without the shield of your Protection.

Citations:

http://www.sistersofearthsong.com/ATHENA/ATHENA.html

http://www.covenofthegoddess.com/goddessathena.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena_(song)

http://www.greekmythology.com/Olympians/Athena/goddessathena1.gif

http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/ortengrenathena/athena.html

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DEFINITIONS:

Anthropomorphism: the attribution of human form or behavior to deity, animal.

Epithet: any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality

Eponym: A person from whom something, as a tribe, nation, or place

Etiological Tale: the study of causation, or origination

Myth: A traditional story

Pantheon: Greek Temple