It is difficult to imagine two more antithetical deities than Athena and Pan. Athena, one of the Olympian Twelve, was both parthenogenically born and a virgin; was the patron goddess of the two greatest city states of Hellas, Athens and Sparta, and a proctectress of cities in general; was a mistress of strategy in war and stratagems in peace; and invented the plough, rake, ox-yoke, horse-bridle, and chariot, as well as handicrafts for women.
Read MoreThe Greek word προφητης means literally ‘who one speaks for another’ (from the verb φημι, ‘I speak’) , i.e. a spokesman, in particular for a deity: in other words one through whom a god or goddess speaks. Apollo, for instance, was known as Διος προφητης at the Delphic oracle. This does not mean the interpreter of Zeus, as some maintain, but rather his mouthpiece.
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