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Athena

Athena - Minerva

MINERVA is the same as Athena, a goddess of wisdom, of household arts and crafts, of spinning and weaving, of textiles Athena is also inventor of the flute, the plough and the ox-yoke, the horse bridle and the chariot. Identified as Athena Nike (Victory) she is usually depicted with wings as the goddess of victory. Athena is not known to have a bellicose nature, nor does she bear arms except when her country is threatened or attacked. Then she fights well and helps or saves her champions too.
Her companion is the intellectual and civilized side of living and the goddess of victory. Her sacred bird is the owl, which is why wisdom is associated with that bird in our culture. She has some other symbols associated with her too. ◊

A "Minerva guy" is one that "resonates" in these fields or on these wavelengths, whether they be arts, domestic arts, city planning, certain kinds of music, victorious literature, and ploughing through books in study -
There are very many outlets and combinations of them and of our civilization too, it seems safe to say.

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