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Vietnamese Myth

Athena is the child of Zeus and Metis, Zeus’s first wife. Zeus found out that Metis will have a son that will overthrow him, so he swallowed his wife when she was pregnant to Athena to prevent it from happening. However, when he was making a robe and helmet for his daughter, he got a headache so he went to Hephaestus for help. Hephaestus was the god of smith and he split Zeus’s head open to let Athena out. Athena came out full grown in her robe and helmet.
She came to be Zeus’s favorite daughter and his advisor as well. Athena also became the patron of deity of Greece’s greatest city, Athens. She was the goddess of war, wisdom, arts and crafts, and protector of civilized life. She is described to be nice, modest and very generous. Although at times, she can have a bit of temper. Such a time was when Athena challenged Arachne in a weaving contest. Arachne was a great mortal weaver who boasted of her excellence and claims that she is better than Athena. In the end of the contest, Arachne won the contest and Athena was full of envy so she turned Arachne into a spider.   In other myths, it is said that Arachne hung herself because of Athena’s rage when she saw the tapestries Arachne made.
        Athena was stronger than an average Olympian god and possessed many conventional powers of an Olympian god. She had the ability of superhuman strength, inability to age upon reaching adulthood, immunity to terrestrial diseases and an ability to heal wounds rapidly. She also had magical abilities where she is able to fly at great speed, change her size and form to transform to someone or something else, and create illusory images. Not only was she able to transform herself to other objects, she can also control the shape and form of other objects or people. With these special abilities, she disguised herself in many ways. In the story of the Odyssey, she often disguised herself as Mentor, a friend of Odysseus.
Athena was the goddess of battle and war so she was the master...