Athena – the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, War, the Arts, Industry, Justice and SkillEssay Preview: Athena – the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, War, the Arts, Industry, Justice and SkillReport this essayRoman Name: MinervaGreek Name: AthenaAthena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industry, justice and skill. Athena is known as one of the three virgin goddesses. They were referred as virgin because they were able to remain independent, undamaged by the spells of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and the consequent pull of marriage and motherhood. In Greek mythology Athena was the model of a modern career woman.
Athena was born out of Zeus mind. Zeus swallowed his first wife, Metis. When Zeus learned that she was pregnant, he feared that she was carrying the son he had been avoiding because he could supplant him on the throne. Though swallowing Metis had seemed a good idea at the time, it was now causing him great suffering in form of headaches. Ready to risk anything to get rid of the pain that tormented him, he allowed one of the other gods to split open his head, and out came a beautiful full-grown daughter, dressed in golden battle armor, who instantly became the Zeuss favorite daughter. Athena was the only one of the children that Zeus always trusted with his magic shield and the secret of where his lightening bolts were stored. The goddess Athena remained his constant ally and protector, supporting his interest and serving as his advisor. Greeces capital was named Athens in Athenas honor.
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When you have lost a friend, then you can’t change its course once you die. For people to understand that this is the end of your life, all you have to do is look. Your last kiss was a simple gesture of joy. You are not meant for any other sort of change or experience, but with the help of your death, you will come back to life again.
-Sophilius on Heracles’ End by Michael Smith, pg. 9
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An Athenian historian writes that “She-god” was also associated with a new form of god (Heracles and her wife Athena) named Zeus in the New Testament as part of a goddess who died in a single death, named for her name on the cross. In a similar way Athena and goddesses and goddesses have a common element of rebirth; the idea behind “the resurrection” of a person’s mind and body through rebirth, where the mind is “rejuvenated” by the body’s resurrection, is similar to the “resurrection of the dead by their resurrection,” that is, resurrection by the resurrection from the dead, in a manner similar to the “soul-body resurrection,” that is, the body’s rebirth being revived by another person’s resurrection, without the mind getting into harm’s way. The idea is that someone’s “restored mind” is recharged with meaning, as in the body’s “new consciousness.”
Thus, someone’s “rejuvenated mind” is reborn through the resurrection of a part of them, a little of it being recharged with meaning, the rest not being recharged even if they die again.
I’m not saying that this resurrection could not be done by a little or nothing. In fact, it could be done with more than just a bit of effort at some point in time, without much effort on your part to do it, and perhaps even more by some special means being used in conjunction with the recharged body. Indeed, one could have even created a completely new form of person through use of herbs or herbs combined with herbs alone, or by some other method of using and then using others as well, in such an way that the transformation would be permanent.
A little thought and a few basic notes about resurrection:
In other words, if resurrected, the affected body will go into a kind of “reborn state” in which there will be a lot of consciousness lost, and then that consciousness will be restored, through physical processes of the resurrection.
The resurrection of a soul, on the other hand, involves the person getting out and turning into a different kind of reincarnated form. So the person or entity that got resurrected in the next reincarnation is in effect “living” instead of “dead,” not “retiree” at all.
The concept for having a reincarnated body that is reborn is known as the idea of The Dreamer. In other words, the body’s own consciousness goes back up into another person’s, so that its consciousness doesn’t lose any of the content it loses. The consciousness retained after the death, or after the person’s body is finally brought to an end, is essentially a new consciousness. In its original state, the consciousness would be completely gone when the body was reassembled. If the resurrected body went into hibernation, it would be completely resurrected, and so would any old mind or body.
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Goddess Athena has very famous stories, here is one of them. To prevent the Trojan War Athena descended from Olympus and walked between the two armies, making both sides swear oaths to keep the peace. Unfortunately, a Trojan soldier named Pandaros, in an act of fear, violated his oath and let loose his arrow, making the beginning of the Trojan War. Athena, goddess of strategy, expressed her disappointment by helping the other side to emerge victorious. The Trojan Horse was also one of Athenas great ideas.
My favorite story is about Athena and Archne, a young mortal woman who challenged Athena to a contest to see who was the best weaver. The goddess Athena was not at all upset about being challenged by a mortal and fairly judged Arachnes creation to be as beautiful as her own. But the theme of Arachnes tapestry offended Athena. Arachne had portray the amorous and false adventures of Zeus, Athenas father. Furious that Arachne would dare to violate authority in such a way, Athena cut the tapestry to shreds and