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As gods go, (Original Post) LiberalAndProud Apr 2015 OP
She did have one of these: AlbertCat Apr 2015 #1
Yes. And unlike Dionysus, not a drunken gardener. LiberalAndProud Apr 2015 #5
Definitely. Minerva, too. trotsky Apr 2015 #2
Or her modern incarnation... Binkie The Clown Apr 2015 #3
Plus nil desperandum Apr 2015 #4
A goddess who kicked the ass of two male gods back during a time when women LostOne4Ever Apr 2015 #6
unlike now Lordquinton Apr 2015 #9
touché LostOne4Ever Apr 2015 #13
She could kick ass, sure. And did when she needed to. LiberalAndProud Apr 2015 #10
Pretty cool indeed. mountain grammy Apr 2015 #7
way ahead of her time olddots Apr 2015 #8
Goddess for skeptics... onager Apr 2015 #11
Athena rocks. beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #12

LostOne4Ever

(9,597 posts)
6. A goddess who kicked the ass of two male gods back during a time when women
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 01:50 PM
Apr 2015

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]were considered inferior.

What is not to love?[/font]

LostOne4Ever

(9,597 posts)
13. touché
Wed Apr 29, 2015, 04:31 AM
Apr 2015

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Very good point.

Though I do think society's opinion of women has greatly increased from what I understand it to be back then.[/font]

LiberalAndProud

(12,799 posts)
10. She could kick ass, sure. And did when she needed to.
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 04:22 PM
Apr 2015

But she preferred diplomacy, unlike Abraham's tyrannical deity who prefers to sort after.

onager

(9,356 posts)
11. Goddess for skeptics...
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 04:34 PM
Apr 2015

Ma'at, ancient Egyptian goddess of truth, order, law and justice.

When you croaked, your heart was weighed in a scale against a feather from her wing. If your heart outweighed the feather, you got introduced to her nasty little sidekick, Ammut The Soul-Eater. A critter with the head of a crocodile, body of a hippo and butt of a lion. Ammut ate your heart first, then the rest of you. And you did not get to attend the big Afterlife cocktail party hosted by Isis and Osiris.

Today when an Egyptian Mom is feeding her baby, she will say "mut-mut-mut!" IOW, "Eat up, kid!" A direct reference to Ammut. Or at least I was told that by Actual Egyptians:

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
12. Athena rocks.
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 04:45 PM
Apr 2015

But I've always been partial to Artemis, the protector of women and Zeus help you if you piss her off.



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