Athena Athenaeum Athene Nike Pallas Pandemos Parthenos

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~ ATHENA   or ATHENE  MINERVA
^          PALLAS ATHENE or ATHENE PARTHENOS
     continued under see> MINERVA
     myth> id+ | perhaps she stands for
                 THE POWER OF THE MIND
     and FEMININITY but NOT MOTHERHOOD|
     art> HER ATTRIBUTES are
          A BOOK and THE OWL
~ ATHENAEUM  or ATHANAEUM
             id+ | LIBRARY or LEARNED SOCIETY or CLUB |
     in sp also A SYMPOSIUM or COLLOQUIUM
     hx> THE TERM RENDERS AN EXPLICIT CREDIT TO
         ATHENS AS A CRADLE OF LEARNING
     The Roman Emperor HADRIAN [#] BUILT A SCHOOL and
     SPONSORED A SCHOOL OF ORATORY  POETRY
     PHILOSOPHY AND JURISPRUDENCE as well as
     LECTURES and RECITALS   THIS SCHOOL SURVIVED
     UNTIL IT WAS ERADICATED BY CHRISTIAN RULERS
          DURING THE 5th CENTURY AD
~ ATHENE  A VERY COMPLEX SYMBOLIC ENTITY
          KNOWN BY MANY NAMES AND TITLES
~ ATHENE ERGANE      for ENERGY            sug> ERG
~ ATHENE MECHANITIS  THE INGENIOUS or THE ARTISAN or MECHANIC
~ ATHENE NIKE        THE VICTORIOUS
~ ATHENE PALLAS      HER WISE AND SOFT NATURE COMPONENT
                     sug> PALLIATIVE
~ ATHENE PANDEMOS    HER CRUEL AND HUMAN LIKE NATURE
                     as in PANDEMONIUM  DEMON  DEMONSTRATE
~ ATHENE PARTHENOS   THE VIRGIN  PURE
                     id+ SHE STANDS FOR THE DUALITY FOUND IN
  HUMANS AS SHOWN IN THE ADMIXTURE OF WISDOM AND GENTLENESS
  ALONG WITH CRUELTY AND GREED as in
  PALLAS  PALLIATIVE  PARTHENOS  PARTHENOGENESIS
  also known as PALLAS ATHENE or MINERVA  TRITOGENEIA  TRITONIA
  also known as ATHENAEA
  id+ | ATHENEUM or ATHENAEUM denotes
        BUILDING or REPOSITORY OF BOOKS or
        of KNOWLEDGE IN GENERAL |
  sp ATENEO = A SYMPOSIUM or COLLOQUIUM
  myth> CONCERNING THE COMPLEX AND MULTIPLE IDEAS
        EMBODIED IN ATHENE [1] [4] [7] [10] [13] [38]
  ATHENE SPRANG FROM THE HEAD OF HER FATHER ZEUS
  SOME STRESS HER PURE UNI PATERNAL ORIGIN  sug> MACHISMO
  ATHENE PARTHENOS PLAYS A CARDINAL ROLE IN CLASSIC
  MYTHOLOGY AND IN THE IDEA OF " MIND "     sug> FEMINISM
  SHE DICHOTOMIZES THE ISSUES OF MATTER vs MIND
  hx> note the contrast with many cultures
      where MOTHER IS SEEN AS THE SOURCE OF
  THE FLESH or MATTER and the     see> MATTER
  FATHER AS THE SOURCE OF THE SPIRIT  or MIND
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& ATHENE
  med> SOME VERTEBRATES MAY UNDERGO SEXUAL AND AT TIMES
       NON SEXUAL REPRODUCTION as in RARE INSTANCES OF
  "VIRGIN FERTILIZATION"
  sug> PARTHENOGENESIS and IMMACULATE CONCEPTION