OD+Religion+and+Mythology+Athena

===Athena was the daughter of Zeus and Metis, she was the goddess of wisdom. Metis was Zeus's first wife, in fear that Athena would bear a son mightier than himself Zeus swallowed Metis and, while inside Zeus Metis began to make a robe and a helmet. The banging of the hammer on the metal crafting the helmet caused Zeus a chronic headache and Hephaestus quickly came to hepl his father, and split open Zeus's head, and out of Zeus's head emerged Athena, fully clothed in the robe and helmet her mother crafted whilst inside Zeus's head. This is one of the two reasons Athena is the goddess of wisdom, the other reason being that her mother Metis was also the goddess of wisdom.===