Athen The Goddess Of War

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Athena is armed with a shield engraved with the head of medusa, and spear while she wears a crested helmet, a long robe, snake scaled trimmed cape. Even though Athena is the goddess of war, she is not like Ares, she tries to prevent war because she is also the goddess of peace. Athena is not very forgiving and is destructive to with ignorant people, but she sweet and friendly to sincere people. She is wise, strong, and very powerful and is looked up to from many people. Athena has many half siblings but, she is Zeus's favorite child out of all of them. Athena is a major goddess not a minor one and is sixth in the social hierarchy after Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, and Hestia.

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