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~ ATHENA ~

She was the Mother-Goddess of Athens, worshipped as Holy Virgin, Athene Parthenia, in the Parthenon, her "Virgin-temple". Writers of the classics insisted on her chastity, older traditions gave her several consorts, such as Hephaestus and Pan.

Her origins are actually from North Africa. She was the Libyan Triple Goddess Neith, Metis, Medusa, Anath, or Ath-enna . Pre-Hellenic myths said she came from the uterus of Lake Tritonis, which means Three Queens, in Libya. Egyptians sometimes called her Isis Athene, which meant, "I have come from myself."

The Greeks claimed Athene was born from Zeus's head, after he swallowed her mother Metis, better known as Medusa.