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🛡️ Subtle Athena Worship 🗡️

Engage in arts and crafts, especially crocheting, weaving, and pottery

Read books you enjoy; try reading The Odyssey

Keep a picture of her in your wallet

Have a candle that reminds you of her (no altar needed)

Wear jewelry that reminds you of her

Have imagery of spears and shields around

Have a snake or owl stuffed animal

Invest in your schooling; studying, doing homework, working hard

Participate in voting, if you can

Try to think outside the box for solutions to problems

Take care of yourself physically, especially with movement or exercise

Dancing to music, especially music that empowers you

Write stories of your own

Learning self-defense, weapons included or not

Bird-watching and star-gazing

Support humanitarian efforts abroad or locally

Drink calming or meditative tea

Meditate out in the sun or under the full moon

Go outside of your comfort zone; try new things that will ultimately be good for you

Play D&D (yes, really)

Take good care of your body; drink lots of water, eat three meals a day, try to eat well, etc.

Practice restraint and patience, especially with people who annoy the shit out of you

Practice standing up for yourself

Assert your boundaries clearly; learn what your boundaries are

Play with your dog or cat, if you have one, especially activities that get you moving, too

Wear clothes that make you feel confident and comfortable

Prioritize your well-being

Cook with olive oil, if able

Make a list of your personal goals; achieve them one step at a time

Celebrate your accomplishments; acknowledge your strengths

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May add more later on! For now, this is my list of discreet ways to worship Athena. Hope this is helpful, and take care, y'all! 🤍

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Goddess Athena by sculptor Giovanni Battista Lombardi (Italian, 1822-1880)

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to live. to live forever.

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La Danse Triomphale de Pallas Athénée

Statue of Athena in Paris. She is also supposed to be holding a spear in her hands

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Hermann Schnee - Summer evening on the Moselle (ca. 1890s)

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Athena in Peacetime💙

Not entirely happy with it, especially the wobbliness of some of the lines, but it's probably finished to the best of my ability right now, and it's close enough to what I was picturing that I'm pleased! 😊

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Sometimes I’m very tired, and it can be hard to say prayers. On rough days, like today, I light a candle and some incense, and pour out libations without hymns or prayers, just a mention of the gods. If I’m too tired for even that, I just place a hand on my altar. I know the gods understand.

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*During the middle of an intense battle* Artemis: Is this an inappropriate time to say “I love you”? Athena: Aww, so romantic!

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y'all ever be so frustrated that you don't live in Greece or you don't have access to an actual temple... like dude I just wanna go down the street and see a Hellenic temple.

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Athena wip! ⚖️- Hermes is next lol

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It's not rest if you are spending it feeling guilty for not being productive. It's not rest if the whole time you feel ashamed for not doing chores. This is how you burn yourself out. You're allowed to relax and do nothing.

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And a world with fewer languages isn’t only a world with more limited means of communication. It’s also a world with fewer stories and folk tales, fewer hagiographies, fewer poems, myths, and recipes, fewer remedies, fewer memories.

Fennelly, Beth Ann. “Fruits We’ll Never Taste, Languages We’ll Never Hear: The Need for Needless Complexity”

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ever have a migraine so bad you think athena is going to burst from your temples?

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Will never get over the fact that Athena is Zeus’ favourite kid. She’s his most special talented princess. She’s crying? Someone will be cursed for eternity. She needs something? Done in an instant. She wants something? Zeus is gonna leave his new fling to get it. Ares is dying? Zeus does not give a fuck. Athena is sad.

Zeus: Someone’s is about to get shocked! Who got the crumbs in the butter?!-

Athena: Me.

Zeus: Oh then that’s okay. You’re very stressed with war and spreading wisdom I understand. ☺️ *Leaves*

Athena turning to Poseidon: I just saved your life. Be thankful.

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Reason why the "Athena was protecting Medusa" theory works: Medusa was a priestess of Athena, making her a virgin. So being turned into a gorgon - never being able be touched by a man again - is not really a hindrance because Medusa wasn't really interested in anyone anyway

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Even though I've never really felt any connection to Athena for whatever reason, I definitely do find her awesome and admirable. One of my favourite things about her has to be how devoted and involved she is when it comes to her chosen heroes. I'm thinking right now of her relationship with Herakles, particularly of her standing against other gods in support of him, or going down into Hades to help him, or helping him to hold the sky. Sure, her support is not unconditional and she will abandon her favourites if they do something morally reprehensible enough, but what could be better and more desirable than having a god by your side who is willing to share the burden of the sky with you?