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I can’t believe that I have only lost once and it was to Athena. I tried so hard to win the city of Athens but she had to give them and olive tree I mean come on salty water is a lot better. That stupid Cecrops, king of Athens, had no idea what a good gift is. Oh you haven’t herd? Well let me tell you.
So the people of Athens were finishing up their city. So king Cecrops says,
“My people now we must decide which of the gods we will offer our worship to who among the deities of Olympus will we select to watch over us. Shall it be Poseidon? Lord of the sea, creator of the horse, to protect our warships and supply us with battle stallions? Or shall it be Athena, goddess of wisdom and justice?”
Then the priests of Poseidon said, “LET IT BE
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But then the priests of Athena started to chant,
“ATHENA, ATHENA, ATHENA”
Then I thought why do people not like me I mean look how awesome I am. How could you not like me?
When the priests were done with their praises Athena tried to act cool and announce that we were there. Like they don’t know. Where gods of course they knew. Then me being the all mighty that I am
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After they were done complimenting us I decided to give them my gift.
“I shall go first Here, I strike the ground with my mighty trident See the water gush forth.”
I felt so amazing the crowd yelled
“A spring!”
“I give you SALTY WATER” I said.
“Oh it’s, it’s salty”
I thought well yes I am Lord of the Sea. Then they said,
“What are we supposed to do with this its salty water?”
So I asked them what the problem was, and the king said,
“Well we appreciate the gesture it’s just we can’t really do much with a salt spring, can we.”

“it’s well, I did make it out of nothing.” I said
He said that he knew and that he can’t drink it because it was salty. How was I supposed to know that humans couldn’t drink salt water? Anyways then the king said,
“Although I don’t want to seem ungrateful we actually probably could do more with the nothing that was here a minute ago then a big mess of salty water here in the middle of town.”

Well then the people of Athens wanted to see Athena’s gift. Athena gave them an olive tree. And the people of Athens and the king loved it. I asked her what you could do with it. Rudely she

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