aubrey’s 500 followers celebration ♧ athena (requested by @majwinters)
her heart wears wisdom skin and wit warmed splendor, the echoes of a war cry holding its four chambers together. she rises like Athena on a night of victory dancing. she rises like the blood moon in a sky of a thousand stars bursting.
♛ || 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗞 𝗠𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗬 : 𝑨𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒂 [ 𝑨𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒆 ] —— ❛ Of Pallas Athena , guardian of the city , I begin to sing . Dread is she , and with Ares she loves the deeds of war , the sack of cities and the shouting and the battle . It is she who saves the people as they go to war and come back . Hail , goddess , and give us good fortune and happiness ! ❜ —— 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗥 , 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝑯𝒚𝒎𝒏 𝑿𝑰 𝒕𝒐 𝑨𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒂
Athena (/əˈθiːnə/; Attic Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnā, or Ἀθηναία, Athēnaia; Epic: Ἀθηναίη, Athēnaiē; Doric: Ἀθάνα, Athānā) or Athene (/əˈθiːniː/; Ionic: Ἀθήνη, Athēnē), often given the epithet Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Παλλὰς), is the goddess of wisdom, craft, and war in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Athena is known for her calm temperament, as she moves slowly to anger. She is noted to have only fought for just reasons, and would not fight without a purpose.
Artemis (/ˈɑːrtᵻmᵻs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄρτεμις, Modern Greek: Άρτεμις, Ártemis, Attic Greek: [ár.te.mis]) was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. Her Roman equivalent is Diana. Some scholars believe that the name, and indeed the goddess herself, was originally pre-Greek. Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron: “Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals”. The Arcadians believed she was the daughter of Demeter.
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All women speak two languages:
the language of men
and the language of silent suffering.
Some women speak a third,
the language of queen.- Mohja Kahf, E-mails from Scheherazad
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