@tryingtochill said:
@azath0th said:
@solarpowered said:
What about Athena? Are you saying Athena is more powerful than Zeus?
Yes I am.
Okay, the myth was that athena would become WISER than zeus, not more powerful.
Myth was that Metis's child would be much stronger than Zeus and overthrow him, but since Zeus swallowed Metis and Athena was born from his head it did not happen.
But still the fact is that Athena was the only god who was not afraid of Typhon and did not shapeshift into a sheep and she was the one who manipulated Zeus into fighting Typhon instead of running away again.
The myth is if Metis bore a son the son would be stronger then Zeus not Athena
ENCYCLOPEDIA
METIS (Mêtis). The personification of prudence, is described as a daughter of Oceanus and Thetys. At the instigation of Zeus, she gave to Cronos a vomitive, whereupon he brought back his children whom he had devoured (Apollod. i. 2. § 1, &c.; Hes. Theog.471). She was the first love and wife of Zeus, from whom she had at first endeavoured to withdraw by metamorphosing herself in various ways. She prophesied to him that she would give birth first to a girl and afterwards to a boy, to whom the rule of the world was destined by fate. For this reason Zeus devoured her, when she was pregnant with Athena, and afterwards he himself gave birth to a daughter, who issued from his head (Apollod. i. 3. § 6; Hes. Theog. 886). Plato (Sympos. p. 203, b.) speaks of Porus as a son of Metis, and according to Hesiod, Zeus devoured Metis on the advice of Uranus and Ge, who also revealed to him the destiny of his son.
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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