Post by Athena on Apr 11, 2007 18:58:28 GMT -5
Character Name: Athena
Sex: Female
Age: physically,30ish
Position: Good
God/Mortal/Amazon/centaur/valkery,Exct: Goddess
Appearance:
Personality: Athena is very wise, she is kind and charming. She is very witty and loves to weave.
History: Athena was the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, Warfare, and Weaving. She was the daughter of Zeus and Metis. Athena felt it her duty to kill Xena’s infant daughter who represented to her, the demise of the Olympians. She held Xena responsible for the death of her father, Zeus. Athena led four great armies in a siege on Xena’s hometown of Amphipolis. Ironically, Xena told Athena she was the one god worthy of her respect. Athena relentlessly pursued Xena and enlisted the help of the other gods to kill Xena’s infant daughter. Xena was bestowed with the power to kill gods by yet another supernatural power. As long as Xena’s daughter was alive, Xena would possess the power to kill gods
Xena Verision Up Top Real one:
In Greek mythology, Athena (Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnâ, or Ἀθήνη, Athénē; Doric: Ἀσάνα, Asána; Latin: Minerva) was the goddess of civilization, specifically wisdom, weaving, crafts and the more disciplined side of war (violence and bloodlust were Ares' domain). Athena's wisdom encompasses the technical knowledge employed in weaving, metal-working, but also includes the cunning intelligence (metis) of such figures as Odysseus. The owl and the olive tree are sacred to her.
She is attended by an owl, and is often accompanied by the goddess of victory, Nike. Wearing a goatskin breastplate called the Aegis given to her by her father, Zeus,[1], she is often shown helmeted and with a shield bearing the Gorgon Medusa's head, a votive gift of Perseus. Athena is an armed warrior goddess, and appears in Greek mythology as a helper of many heroes, including Heracles, Jason, and Odysseus. She never had a consort or lover, and thus was often known as Athena Parthenos ("Athena the virgin"), hence her most famous temple, the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens. However, she was the mother of Erichthonius by an attempted rape[citation needed], which failed. Athena, disgusted, wiped the seed with wool, which was sacred to Gaia, and so Erichthonius was conceived.
In her role as a protector of the city, Athena was worshiped throughout the Greek world as Athena Polias ("Athena of the city"). She had a special relationship with Athens, as is shown by the etymological connection of the names of the goddess and the city.[2] Athena is associated with Athens, a plural name because it was the place where she presided over her sisterhood, the Athenai, in earliest times.[3] Athena was probably already a goddess in the Aegean in prehistoric times.[4] There is evidence that in early times, Athena was an owl herself, or a bird goddess in general. In Book 3 of the Odyssey, she takes the form of a sea-eagle. Her tasseled aegis may be the remnants of wings:[5] she is depicted with wings on Archaic red-figure pottery.
Greek deities
series
Primordial deities
Titans
Aquatic deities
Chthonic deities
Personified concepts
Other deities
Olympians
Zeus and Hera,
Poseidon, Hades,
Hestia, Demeter,
Aphrodite, Athena,
Apollo, Artemis,
Ares, Hephaestus,
Hermes, Dionysus
This marble copy signed ANTIOCHOS is a first century BCE copy of Phidias' 5th-century original that stood on the AcropolisIn the Olympian pantheon, Athena was remade as the favorite daughter of Zeus, born fully armed from his forehead after he swallowed her mother, Metis. The story of her birth comes in several versions. In the one most commonly cited, Zeus lay with Metis, the goddess of crafty thought and wisdom, but immediately feared the consequences. It had been prophesied that Metis would bear children more powerful than the sire,[6] even Zeus himself. In order to forestall these dire consequences, Zeus transformed Metis into a fly and swallowed her immediately after lying with her.[citation needed] He was too late: Metis had already conceived a child. Metis immediately began making a helmet and robe for her fetal daughter. The hammering as she made the helmet caused Zeus great pain and Prometheus, Hephaestus, Hermes or Palaemon (depending on the sources examined) cleaved Zeus's head with the double-headed Minoan axe (the labrys of the Great Goddess). Athena leaped from Zeus's head, fully grown and armed, and Zeus was none the worse for the experience.
Fragments attributed to the semi-legendary Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, said to have written before the Trojan war, make Athena instead the daughter of Cronus, a king of Byblos who is said to have visited 'the inhabitable world' and bequeathed Attica to Athena.
After Xena was brought back to life so were some of the souls she had sleighed. Athena was one of them. Now she spends her days in searc, hopping that Llanius was one of them.
Sample Rp:
Athena cirled the hallway. She paced back and forth. SHe had a proposal for her sister. One that would intrest her indefenently.
Secret Word:...A1 Steaksauce...
What you plan on doing with the character: Bring her back to life... make her be nice to Xena, *bows down* Hmm... maybe bring Llanius back to life somewhere along the way. (my friend is going to die when i tell her bout this site!!)
Sex: Female
Age: physically,30ish
Position: Good
God/Mortal/Amazon/centaur/valkery,Exct: Goddess
Appearance:
Personality: Athena is very wise, she is kind and charming. She is very witty and loves to weave.
History: Athena was the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, Warfare, and Weaving. She was the daughter of Zeus and Metis. Athena felt it her duty to kill Xena’s infant daughter who represented to her, the demise of the Olympians. She held Xena responsible for the death of her father, Zeus. Athena led four great armies in a siege on Xena’s hometown of Amphipolis. Ironically, Xena told Athena she was the one god worthy of her respect. Athena relentlessly pursued Xena and enlisted the help of the other gods to kill Xena’s infant daughter. Xena was bestowed with the power to kill gods by yet another supernatural power. As long as Xena’s daughter was alive, Xena would possess the power to kill gods
Xena Verision Up Top Real one:
In Greek mythology, Athena (Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnâ, or Ἀθήνη, Athénē; Doric: Ἀσάνα, Asána; Latin: Minerva) was the goddess of civilization, specifically wisdom, weaving, crafts and the more disciplined side of war (violence and bloodlust were Ares' domain). Athena's wisdom encompasses the technical knowledge employed in weaving, metal-working, but also includes the cunning intelligence (metis) of such figures as Odysseus. The owl and the olive tree are sacred to her.
She is attended by an owl, and is often accompanied by the goddess of victory, Nike. Wearing a goatskin breastplate called the Aegis given to her by her father, Zeus,[1], she is often shown helmeted and with a shield bearing the Gorgon Medusa's head, a votive gift of Perseus. Athena is an armed warrior goddess, and appears in Greek mythology as a helper of many heroes, including Heracles, Jason, and Odysseus. She never had a consort or lover, and thus was often known as Athena Parthenos ("Athena the virgin"), hence her most famous temple, the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens. However, she was the mother of Erichthonius by an attempted rape[citation needed], which failed. Athena, disgusted, wiped the seed with wool, which was sacred to Gaia, and so Erichthonius was conceived.
In her role as a protector of the city, Athena was worshiped throughout the Greek world as Athena Polias ("Athena of the city"). She had a special relationship with Athens, as is shown by the etymological connection of the names of the goddess and the city.[2] Athena is associated with Athens, a plural name because it was the place where she presided over her sisterhood, the Athenai, in earliest times.[3] Athena was probably already a goddess in the Aegean in prehistoric times.[4] There is evidence that in early times, Athena was an owl herself, or a bird goddess in general. In Book 3 of the Odyssey, she takes the form of a sea-eagle. Her tasseled aegis may be the remnants of wings:[5] she is depicted with wings on Archaic red-figure pottery.
Greek deities
series
Primordial deities
Titans
Aquatic deities
Chthonic deities
Personified concepts
Other deities
Olympians
Zeus and Hera,
Poseidon, Hades,
Hestia, Demeter,
Aphrodite, Athena,
Apollo, Artemis,
Ares, Hephaestus,
Hermes, Dionysus
This marble copy signed ANTIOCHOS is a first century BCE copy of Phidias' 5th-century original that stood on the AcropolisIn the Olympian pantheon, Athena was remade as the favorite daughter of Zeus, born fully armed from his forehead after he swallowed her mother, Metis. The story of her birth comes in several versions. In the one most commonly cited, Zeus lay with Metis, the goddess of crafty thought and wisdom, but immediately feared the consequences. It had been prophesied that Metis would bear children more powerful than the sire,[6] even Zeus himself. In order to forestall these dire consequences, Zeus transformed Metis into a fly and swallowed her immediately after lying with her.[citation needed] He was too late: Metis had already conceived a child. Metis immediately began making a helmet and robe for her fetal daughter. The hammering as she made the helmet caused Zeus great pain and Prometheus, Hephaestus, Hermes or Palaemon (depending on the sources examined) cleaved Zeus's head with the double-headed Minoan axe (the labrys of the Great Goddess). Athena leaped from Zeus's head, fully grown and armed, and Zeus was none the worse for the experience.
Fragments attributed to the semi-legendary Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, said to have written before the Trojan war, make Athena instead the daughter of Cronus, a king of Byblos who is said to have visited 'the inhabitable world' and bequeathed Attica to Athena.
After Xena was brought back to life so were some of the souls she had sleighed. Athena was one of them. Now she spends her days in searc, hopping that Llanius was one of them.
Sample Rp:
Athena cirled the hallway. She paced back and forth. SHe had a proposal for her sister. One that would intrest her indefenently.
Secret Word:...A1 Steaksauce...
What you plan on doing with the character: Bring her back to life... make her be nice to Xena, *bows down* Hmm... maybe bring Llanius back to life somewhere along the way. (my friend is going to die when i tell her bout this site!!)