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Beauty Secrets of the Stars
It comes as no surprise that many of the most beautiful and famous people go to great lengths to maintain their youthful appearance. They work out with personal trainers. They go to the best hair salons and rejuvenating spas. They use exotic skin...
How To Get Men To Pursue You!
There are many confusing "RULES" on what women can do to become
more successful with the male gender. On one hand we are told
that men have a fragile ego that needs stroking until your paws
go sore. We are told pouting your sweet lips...
Kenneth A. Mogell, DMD Announces Website Update
Boca Raton & Ft. Lauderdale Cosmetic Dentist , Kenneth A. Mogell, DMD recently released a website update located at http://www.drmogell.com . The website features dentist’s profile detailing Dr. Mogell’s background and expertise. It also includes...
Metaphors of the Mind (Part II)
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Natural Cellular Defense: Your First Line of Defense Against "Body Burden"
Copyright since 2009 Paula Rothstein
The phrase "body burden" has been used by scientists to describe
the heavy load of chemicals that can be found in the average
person - the result of lifelong exposure to industrial
chemicals. Before we are even...
PCA-Rx, The Answer To Bodily Toxicity
PCA-Rx is an advanced living answer to the toxicity in our body. Unsuspectingly most of the inhabitants of our planet go all the way through their lives unwillingly accumulating a wide selection of metals and toxins as well as many other sources of...
Prescription eyeglass specialty lenses
There are many different lenses that have been specially created for certain purposes and needs. An aspheric lens is one of the lightest weights of all lenses. They are available in bifocal or single vision prescription eyeglasses. The Allyl Resin...
Protein: Common or Missing Link?
Most of us equate the word diet with calorie reduction. This is understandable, since most diet marketing is relentlessly focused on offering consumers low-calorie options. Unfortunately, this way of thinking is categorically wrong. The simple...
The Formula for Complete Success
The formula for complete success is to combine many different parts into one masterpiece.
Getting adequate rest each day, it is said that the man who can take rest is greater than the man who can take a city. Get the rest, meditation, relaxation...
The War on Women
Merovingian/Secret Society Rituals: One of my fellow researchers on a site I have been involved with for a few years knows a lot more about genetics than I do. He says healthy genes have polarity that is harmonically tuned and this fits with...
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Greek goddess Athena
Greek goddess Athena (A-theen-uh)
later called Minerva by
the Romans, was the goddess of wisdom, battle, and certain
crafts, and was the protector of the concept of cities. The
olive tree was sacred to her, and her sacred bird was the
owl (which is why wisdom is associated with owls). Poseidon,
the god of the Sea, and Athena were in competition to become
the patron of a new city. Poseidon, as a bribe, gave the
first horses to the people, but Athena struck the ground
with a rod and up sprang the first olive tree, olives became
an agricultural staple for the Greeks. She was chosen as the
patron goddess of the city which was called Athens, in her
honor.
Athena was born from the head of Zeus, the chief Olympian
god. Zeus had a headache which was growing worse and worse
until he finally had the craftsman god, Hephaestus, split
his head open with an axe, and out sprang Athena, fully
grown and in full armor. This sounds like a rather silly
myth, but symbolically this shows the goddess of wisdom
coming from the head of the chief god. Some of the more
practical Greeks decided that Zeus had swallowed his first
wife Metis (a Titan goddess of wisdom) and she had given
birth to Athena within Zeus. Athena then moved to Zeus's
head in order to make her grand entrance.
Her name is also spelled Athene. She is identified often in
mythology as grey-eyed or flashing-eyed Athena, and is
sometimes called Pallas Athena because she accidentally
killed Pallas, a daughter of the sea god, Triton. Another
explanation for the name, Pallas Athena, is that she took
the name when she killed the giant, Pallas,
during the
battle between the Gigantes and the Olympians. She is
identified as Athena Nike and is usually depicted with wings
when she is the goddess of victorious battle. She is also
called Athena Parthenos, to honor her virtue. Parthenos
means virgin.
Athena's sacred temple on the acropolis in Athens, Greece is
called the Parthenon (temple of the virgin) because she was
one of the three virgin Olympian goddesses. The Parthenon is
considered by some to be the most perfect building ever
built.
Light is shed on the attitude the Greeks had toward war and
battle by the characterization of the god of war, Ares, and
the goddess of battle, Athena. The Greeks hated the god of
war and depicted him as a bully and a coward, while showing
Athena as glorious and virtuous. Unlike the Romans, who
glorified Mars (the Roman name for Ares) because they
intended to conquer the world, the Greeks had no desire to
control the world; but neither would they lose their
freedom. Thus they despised the god of war and loved the
goddess of battle.
This is a fitting Goddess for me to pray to
tonight as the courts try to control spam and about put
all ezine publishers out of business. There is a war between
people who want to market to everyone and those who want privacry.
Well, personally I think that I will continue to publish my ezines
and just cut out the ads for now. All ads will just go online.
I pray to Athena to help me by advising me on this war.
About the Author
Judi Singleton is the webmistress of Motherearthpublishing.com
Join her ezines today.
http://www.motherearthpublishing.com
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