As gods go,

[LiberalAndProud]

Athena was pretty cool.

[AlbertCat]

1. She did have one of these:

[LiberalAndProud]

5. Yes. And unlike Dionysus, not a drunken gardener.

Wait.


But if I could *be* a god. I'd be Dionysus.

[trotsky]

2. Definitely. Minerva, too.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. Or her modern incarnation...

Wonder Woman!

[nil desperandum]

4. Plus

the WHO wrote a pretty good song about her....she's just a girl, just a girl, just a girl..

[LostOne4Ever]

6. A goddess who kicked the ass of two male gods back during a time when women

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]were considered inferior.

What is not to love?[/font]

[Lordquinton]

9. unlike now

When women are held as equals.

[LostOne4Ever]

13. touché

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Very good point.

Though I do think society's opinion of women has greatly increased from what I understand it to be back then.[/font]

[LiberalAndProud]

10. She could kick ass, sure. And did when she needed to.

But she preferred diplomacy, unlike Abraham's tyrannical deity who prefers to sort after.

[mountain grammy]

7. Pretty cool indeed.

[olddots]

8. way ahead of her time

A spear and a high def sat dish ....

[onager]

11. Goddess for skeptics...

Ma'at, ancient Egyptian goddess of truth, order, law and justice.

When you croaked, your heart was weighed in a scale against a feather from her wing. If your heart outweighed the feather, you got introduced to her nasty little sidekick, Ammut The Soul-Eater. A critter with the head of a crocodile, body of a hippo and butt of a lion. Ammut ate your heart first, then the rest of you. And you did not get to attend the big Afterlife cocktail party hosted by Isis and Osiris.

Today when an Egyptian Mom is feeding her baby, she will say "mut-mut-mut!" IOW, "Eat up, kid!" A direct reference to Ammut. Or at least I was told that by Actual Egyptians:

[beam me up scottie]

12. Athena rocks.

But I've always been partial to Artemis, the protector of women and Zeus help you if you piss her off.