Athena
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"I once warned you, Percy Jackson, that to save a friend you would destroy the world. Perhaps I was mistaken. You seemed to have saved both your friends and the world. But think very carefully about how you proceed from here. I have given you the benefit of the doubt. Don't mess up." |
— Athena to Perseus Jackson on Olympus[[{{{4}}}|[src]]] |
Athena is the Olympian of wisdom, strategy, warfare, arts, crafts, battle, and reason. Daughter of Zeus and Metis and Greek aspect of Minerva and the vakha Nomin, Athena was born inside her father's body; Metis had been swallowed whole by Zeus in fear of the Prophecy of Betrayal, leading to Athena causing a headache in Zeus's head. Hephaestus then broke Zeus's head open, allowing Athena to escape.
Zeus then sent Athena to Lake Tritonis, where she met and accidentally killed the nymph Pallas. Athena also gave Pandora the gift of cleverness and weaving, invented the flute, both cursed and blessed Teiresias, transformed Arachne into a spider, become patron goddess of Athens, helped with the Olympian Riot, and supported the Greeks in the Trojan War. When Rome conquered Greece, Athena became Minerva, a very different goddess, making the latter despise the Romans for downgrading her. Children of Athena would also start most demigod civil wars.
Millennia later, Athena and Minerva were split apart in the Great Divine Schism, soon after Minerva charged Annabeth Chase with following the Mark of Athena towards the Athena Parthenos. Chase became the first to succeed in finding the Parthenos. Eventually, the New Roman praetor Reyna Ramírez-Arellano returned the Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood, uniting the two camps and ending the Schism permanently. Athena then proceeded to help Chase kill Enceladus in the Battle in Athens.
Abilities
- Prowess in Battle: Athena is a superb warrior, and has superior tactical skills.
- Divine Wisdom: Athena is extremely wise, intelligent, and knowledgeable.
- Strategist: Athena is an exceptionally skilled tactician; she is not prone to outbursts of aggression or overconfidence and would not make a pathetic mistake due to hating her target or holding emotional opinions.
- Craftsmanship: An incredibly skillful craftswoman, Athena invented the art of weaving and helped Jason draw blueprints for the Argo.
- Telumkinesis: Athena has great control over any weapon, similar to Ares.
- Aegis Portions: Athena can grant portions of her Aegis cloak to others.
- Shapeshifting: Athena was able to transform herself into pure intelligence to escape from Zeus's head, as well as many other forms.
- Transfiguration: Athena turned Medusa, Euryale, and Stheno into the first Gorgons, Coronis into the first raven, Arachne into the first spider, and Perdix into the first partridge.
- Inventions: Athena created the first flute, which played so beautifully that Marsyas was able to use it to hold his own in a musical competition with Apollo.
- Item Teleportation: Athena replaced Annabeth Chase's books with her Yankees cap and a square of ambrosia.
- Curses: Athena can place horrible curses on objects, such as her flute, and mortals, such as Teiresias or Daedalus.
- Sacred Animal Control: Athena can control animals sacred to her, such as owls and serpents.
- Amokinesis Immunity: As a virgin goddess, Athena is immune to Aphrodite's ability of arousing love and passion in others, as well as the infamous arrows of Eros.
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Titanic counterpart(s)
- Metis (as goddess of wisdom)
Alternate vakha aspect(s)
Trivia
- The minor planet 2 Pallas is named after Athena's alternative name Pallas.
- Athena is the only virgin goddess to have children, albeit in an unusual way.
- Athena highly dislikes the relationship between Perseus Jackson and Annabeth Chase.
Notes and references
- ↑ Athena escaped Zeus's head with help from Hephaestus, who imprisoned Hera in a throne as soon as he arrived. However, Dionysus was the one who encouraged him to free her, after he had become an Olympian. Therefore, the Gigantomachy had already past at that time, implying that Hera was imprisoned during the entire war. Athena fought in the Gigantomachy; she escaped Zeus's head before the war and after Hephaestus arrived, during the early stages of Hera's imprisonment. Therefore, Athena was born before. For more information, see Bachland Wiki:Greek Mythology Timeline.