r/Athena

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Athena tested me

One time in 2025 maybe February, an older woman needed help with a heater for her car. I was at Walmart for one for my wife and I. I reluctantly was going to do the right thing and buy her a heater at substantial cost to myself after I realized the manager would not step up and if I didn’t no one else would. She was gone when I turned to give it to her. A Walmart worker told me she saw her following me and the manager to the propane heaters. There was no way she could have escaped my sight as there was no outlet for her to have left by; she just vanished. I searched for her carefully which is why the worker was able to tell me what happened but she had vanished without a trace

Later reading the Odyssey I was struck by how the Goddess appears in disguise there and I remembered the woman’s grey eyes and her sharp wit (she made a clever joke which in retrospect was strange coming from a woman supposedly terrified of freezing to death with her cat in her car that night) and I realized this was Athena

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u/Annual-Coffee7265 — 1 day ago
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Trial of Orestes

Playing Immortal Rise of Fenyx and there’s a court house with a puzzle making the player participate in recreating the scene from Aeschylus’s play The Eumenides. Orestes was accused and punished for killing his mother Clytemnestra. As he wanted revenge for the death of his Father Agamemnon (who his mom had killed for abandoning the Greeks in the Trojan war). Having his mother killed angered the Furies—who demanded blood for spilled family blood. Naturally Athene presided over the court case as head judge and had 12 apostles assist her in a decision. It was tie and Athene had the deciding vote. Highly recommend playing the game. If you know your mythology it’s a treat. Narrated by Zeus and Prometheus. It’s quiet witty banter 😂. Game is assassins creed odyssey but focuses 100% on the mythology.

u/RougeRaxxa — 3 days ago
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Wisdom or Wizdumb?

In this Place, We try to Escape, our Dreaded Fate,
We call Ourselves Mentors, Leaders, Nurturers and More,
To Look with Our Two Eyes, a Blank Stare, a Hidden Command,
What is this World and Where did I Land?

We Forgot, of course, the Most Important Source,
The Tri that Completes Thee, Hidden Inside of Me,
Like The Holy Spirit, illuminating Transparency,
Somewhere In-Between, Waiting to Gleam.
That Speckle you Moved to Behind Closed Doors,
From when You Were a Child, with Endless Thoughts.

To Open your Mind, and Find Your Third Eye,
The State of Eternal Infinite Possibilities,
The Rivers that Caress my Boat, Gently Beneath Me.
You can See It Too, just Find Your Way Through,
We are Kept Busy, To Contain Our Thoughts,
Halting You from Realising, It is Your Life They Took.

Every Soul on Earth is Pulled from the Ether of Home.
A Place you Will no longer Know,
Your Memories have been Wiped, Deleted, of course.
They Toy with Your Life and the Abilities Ye hold.
You can Create Life, what does that Mean?

You Pull that Life from Thee, the Greatest Source,
Stolen from Our Land, that Beams with Hope,
Treasures of Love and All of its Glory,
Why do People Fear Death when You’re a Course?
Energy cannot be Destroyed, Neither can it be Created,
Do I Dare to Challenge Your Wildest Thoughts?

Adam and Eve, a List of Prophecies,
Temples and Building, Unexplainable Technology,
We Follow Leaders Whom Lie To Our Face,
They Play with Us like Toys in a Game,
For they Keep, Locked Away,
The Truth About so much More than any Book could Tell you.

Athena Knows This is Not her Home,
Why Build a Place Among the Groves?
When You can Break Down the Shadows in This World,
Take Back what They Stole,
A Vision made By Your Hands,
Your Dreams and Admirations To Inspire the Lands,
To Remember Who You Are,
We are In Neverland.
Do Not Forget Another Hand.

WHOOHWWHOOHW

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u/peaceswisdom — 5 days ago