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Description: At the top of the list comes the goddess of wisdom, reasoning, and intelligence – Athena. She was a unique deity with unfathomable popularity among gods and mortals.

Her birth was far from ordinary given that her mother did not, technically speaking, give birth to her. Her mother was Metis, who was swallowed by Zeus while she was pregnant because of a prophecy that the child Metis was going to bear would become the lord of the heavens. But when it was time for Athena to be born, Zeus began to complain of a massive headache. Athena then sprang from his head fully grown and dressed in armor.

Athena was known for her ferocity in battle but unlike Ares, she never displayed hotheadedness and always believed in fighting for justice and righteousness. She only took part in wars that were fought in self-defense.

She was the divine personification of reasoning, wisdom, and knowledge. No wonder she was Zeus’ favorite child and was even allowed to use his powerful thunderbolt whenever the need arose. The sheer scale of influence she had over the mortal world is evident from the fact that the city of Athens took its name after he

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