Virgin Goddess of Wisdom, War & Victory | Minerva (Athena)

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Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. Minerva is not a patron of violence such as Mars, but of strategic war. From the second century BC onward, the Romans equated her with the Greek goddess Athena. Minerva is one of the three Roman deities in the Capitoline Triad, along with Jupiter and Juno.

She was the virgin goddess of music, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, and the crafts. She is often depicted with her sacred creature, an owl usually named as the "owl of Minerva", which symbolised her association with wisdom and knowledge as well as, less frequently, the snake and the olive tree. Minerva is commonly depicted as tall with an athletic and muscular build, as well as wearing armour and carrying a spear. As the most important Roman goddess, she is highly revered, honored, and respected. Marcus Terentius Varro considered her to be ideas and the plan for the universe personified.

Following the Greek myths around Athena, she was born of Metis, who had been swallowed by Jupiter, and burst from her father's head, fully armed and clad in armour. Jupiter had sex with the titaness Metis, which resulted in her attempting to change shape (or shapeshift) to escape him. Jupiter then recalled the prophecy that his own child would overthrow him as he had Saturn, and in turn, Saturn had Caelus. Fearing that their child would be male, and would grow stronger than he was and rule the Heavens in his place, Jupiter swallowed Metis whole after tricking her into turning herself into a fly. The Titaness gave birth to Minerva and forged weapons and armour for her child while within Jupiter's body. In some versions of the story, Metis continued to live inside of Jupiter's mind as the source of his wisdom. Others say she was simply a vessel for the birth of Minerva. The constant pounding and ringing left Jupiter with agonizing pain. To relieve the pain, Vulcan used a hammer to split Jupiter's head and, from the cleft, Minerva emerged, whole, adult, and in full battle armour.

In Greek mythology, Athena was believed to have been born from the forehead of her father Zeus. In some versions of the story, Athena has no mother and is born from Zeus' forehead by parthenogenesis. In others, such as Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus swallows his consort Metis, who was pregnant with Athena; in this version, Athena is first born within Zeus and then escapes from his body through his forehead. In the founding myth of Athens, Athena bested Poseidon in a competition over patronage of the city by creating the first olive tree. She was known as Athena Parthenos "Athena the Virgin," but in one archaic Attic myth, the god Hephaestus tried and failed to rape her, resulting in Gaia giving birth to Erichthonius, an important Athenian founding hero. Athena was the patron goddess of heroic endeavor; she was believed to have aided the heroes Perseus, Heracles, Bellerophon, and Jason. Along with Aphrodite and Hera, Athena was one of the three goddesses whose feud resulted in the beginning of the Trojan War.

She plays an active role in the Iliad, in which she assists the Achaeans and, in the Odyssey, she is the divine counselor to Odysseus. In the later writings of the Roman poet Ovid, Athena was said to have competed against the mortal Arachne in a weaving competition, afterward transforming Arachne into the first spider; Ovid also describes how she transformed Medusa into a Gorgon after witnessing her being raped by Poseidon in her temple. Since the Renaissance, Athena has become an international symbol of wisdom, the arts, and classical learning. Western artists and allegorists have often used Athena as a symbol of freedom and democracy.

Athena was not only the patron goddess of Athens, but also other cities, including Argos, Sparta, Gortyn, Lindos, and Larisa. Athena was frequently equated with Aphaea, a local goddess of the island of Aegina, originally from Crete and also associated with Artemis and the nymph Britomartis. In Arcadia, she was assimilated with the ancient goddess Alea and worshiped as Athena Alea.

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[GnosticInformant]

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[william]

Exquisite production
Excellent elocution
Fitting imagery
Historically relevant

Thank you

[michaelminter]

Great job Neal! A well written summary of my favourite god. It would be awesome to hear more Greek mythology on your channel.
Whilst you are on the subject of strange births from Zeus, maybe you should think of doing Dionysus next.

[ShirleneChiba]

My name is Minerva .. how lovely to listen and watch this awesome Goddess I was named after ❤

[jasonjenkins]

BEST presentation on Athena-Minerva ever! Bravo!

[rsnsol]

loved it. you should do a whole series of these. thankyou

[SuperCowboyJesus]

We have Athena, Medusa, demiurge lion head, and ark of the covenant statue in our legislative building in Manitoba.

[ValeriePoynter]

Neal you are such a great teacher with all your videos. Love all the music and images. Thanks!

[scottduke]

Neal! You tell the story with such gravitas! I’m enjoying it!!

[jdeljones]

@3:27 So Metis was going to be the mother of Dionysus? Does this mean the version of Dionysus we did get who's mother is mortal is not as strong? Or is Metis still involved somehow since Zeus swallowed her?

[aqua]

Five is encoded into the building of the pentagon, a number associated with Ishtar and Venus. And it is located in D.C between Virginia and Maryland (Virgin Mary). Considering that the pentagon is a war room, maybe there's a side to the virgin mary that's not known by most people.

[irakliskazantzidis]

According to other traditions, Erechtheus was the son of Athena was also a native and a genius(half human and half serpent), just like Cecrops. His mother was Earth and his father Hephaestus and he was born in a strange way. They say, therefore, that when Hephaestus was alone, because Aphrodite had abandoned him, Athena entered his workshop to ask him to make new weapons for her. As soon as Hephaestus saw Athena, he felt strong love and wanted to unite with her. The goddess, who was disgusted by the act of love, rejected him and left, while he followed her with difficulty. At some point he reached her. Athena struck him with her spear, but Hephaestus' sperm fell on her leg. Then the goddess took a tuft of wool, wiped her foot and threw it to the Earth. The Earth fertilized and gave birth to a boy named Erichthon (from erio = wool and chthon = earth). As soon as the child was born, Athena took him to raise him, but secretly from the other gods. She put two drops of Gorgo's blood into his eyes. One drop was to bring death to his enemies and the other to protect him from disease. At the same time he gave him two snakes to protect him. He took the two snakes and together with the baby he closed them in a box, which after sealing it well, he gave it to the daughters of Cekrops (?) to guard it. But the, Ersi and Pandrosos, opened the box. As soon as they saw the baby with the snakes they were overcome by a kind of madness that made them fall from the walls of the Acropolis. When Athena learned what the daughters of Cecrops were doing, she took the baby and shut it up in the temple, which was later called Erechtheion, where she raised it with her own care
Diodorus Siculus writes that Erechtheus came from Egypt and became king of the Athenians because he helped them escape the wheat shortage they once had.

[erinaltstadt]

I would love to know more about potential biblical connections to this

[Darisiabgal]

Well since we are syncretizing gods . . . . .
Anah is actually a place in Western Iraq. It was previously called hanat as a part of Suruh a subdivision of the Babylonian empire. Hanat is believed to be an Amorite god (and the Babylonian kings were Amorite kings).

The Mar.tu originally occupied northern and central canaan prior to the 24th Century BCE, their high god was Amurru, little is known about the gods beneath them. The texts describe the Marian king gaining sufficient strength to invade the west, this is probably how El Elyon is introduced. Though canaan was conquered some towns continued to thrive with their preexusting gods. Meanwhile the amorites began emigrating south and founded a city between Mari and Hit called Hanat, which evolved into Anat. It is likely that Anat was originally a lesser amorite god.
In the original legend Anat helps Ba'al Hadat defeat the mediterranean god Mot. This places the pair near the syrian/lebanese border on the mediterranean about 2000 BC or before. Hadat appears to have come from a euphratean city close to the turkish syrian border. In mesopotamian religions gods often came in god/goddess pairs, for example enlil and wife of enlil.
The male deity is tied to the heavens and the female deity is tied to the earth (Ki, Ka, Gi, Ge). Example of such pairs are Attar and Ashtar. Hanat and Hadad could exemplify another pair. As such pairs appear to influence the Akkad/Sumerian beliefs about the time of Sargon, who spent enourmous resources trying to develope canaan into a network of trading cities for the benefit of Akkad and Sumer. Because these deities are engaged into the trading network, we see both gods later get cities deep within the trading avenues (Anah is on the Euphrates and Adad was close to the tigris, though at the time these woukd have been territories).
It is after this time that the cult of Anat begins to spread into Africa and elsewhere. It is a bit of a stretch that an Anat cultist founded athens, but it is curious that in greece anat ends with theta and if we split the word in half and swap the sides we get Ath an. Since the city itself is from the 15th c BCE when the Babylonians were expanding trade its plausible that a canaanite people established a trading post, it would not be the first example. But such outreaches are not required. One way to know if you had a trading outpost is if you found cuneiform in the pottery culture. The minoans have a script, but it was not cuneiform.

What this tells us is that grecan mythology is rather late, so late in fact, if there are tendrils between canaanite gods and early greek gods the appearance is muddled.

[tbishop]

Makes me think of the creepy scene from clash of the titans where cassiopeia pisses off Thetis and the Idol starts talking

[irakliskazantzidis]

nice work!!..."ΑΘΕ" the Matriarchy and the Patriarchy in complete harmony

[irakliskazantzidis]

the battle of Athena Atlantis described by the Egyptian priest Sonchis of Saïs to Solon(Timaeus and Critias)is the myth of the claim of the city of Athens by Athena and Poseidon, describes the expansion of the priesthoods of Atlantis-(PoSeidon) in the Mediterranean and the Aegean and the resistance of the priesthood of Delphi-(Athena)

[MudfossilGaia]

She is also that Divine Feminine spark that empowers each one of us 😉 you should do a reading of Thunder Perfect Mind!