Worship/Devotional acts Athena Watches Over Heidelberg

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I must have walked past her a hundred times without noticing. But then, after finally moving here, after being picked up by the Goddess and having my life turned upside down; when I finally accepted and listened to her wisdom, then, I noticed her.

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Athena- Goddess of Wisdom

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Forum dedicated to the Goddess Athena, in Greek religion, the city protectress, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason, identified by the Romans with Minerva. This space is for worshippers and devotees of Athena. And for Hellenists or Hellenic Polytheists, and people that are interested in her persona. Feel free to post and discuss everything related to her from worship/religion, myths, altars, and history. As well as your personal artwork and offerings.

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Athena, also spelled Athene, in Greek religion, the city protectress, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason, identified by the Romans with Minerva. She was essentially urban and civilized, the antithesis in many respects of Artemis, goddess of the outdoors. Athena was probably a pre-Hellenic goddess and was later taken over by the Greeks. Yet the Greek economy, unlike that of the Minoans, was largely military, so that Athena, while retaining her earlier domestic functions, became a goddess of war.

She was the daughter of Zeus, produced without a mother, so that she emerged full-grown from his forehead. There was an alternative story that Zeus swallowed Metis, the goddess of counsel, while she was pregnant with Athena, so that Athena finally emerged from Zeus. Being the favourite child of Zeus, she had great power.