![]() The story so far: The goddess Athena was looking down from her palace in the sky when she saw a great storm over the sea. ".What about Odysseus?! What if he's still at sea, on his little wooden ship - in a violent storm like that?"Īnd once again she wondered about her beautiful, lighthearted sister, and why "Aphrodite" seemed to be just another way to spell "trouble". "I suppose Daddy has invited uncle Poseidon to come and help him stir up a really colossal storm over land and sea. They were huge, dark clouds, driven by a mighty wind and split by violent thunderbolts. ![]() Right now she was wondering about her sister, Aphrodite: why did Aphrodite so often cause trouble, when she was such a charming girl that never meant any harm? Athena was wondering and pondering out in the garden, in her favorite spot, sitting right on the very edge of the floating palace, with her feet dangling over empty space, and looking down at the clouds far below her. And whenever she found something interesting, she would wonder why. It was Athena who first taught the Greeks how to make tasty foods from bitter olives, and how to weave fine fabrics from gossamer threads. Because Athena was interested in a lot of things: in people, in animals, and especially in new ways to make things. But she also liked sometimes just to be on her own, thinking deep thoughts. Most of the gods had big families just like the people in those days, so Athena was never short of brothers and sisters and cousins and uncles and aunts to play with. His wife didn't like all the noise, so she made sure that he also gave the people down below some fine weather for their crops and animals - because Hera was in charge of family life. When all the flashes and bangs went off at once, Zeus was as happy as a child with fireworks. What he liked best was when it was time to gather up the big, black thunder clouds over Mount Olympos, and throw down the lightning. Zeus was the chief sky-god in Greece, so he had charge of the weather. But you won't see their palace, because the gods are invisible unless they want to show themselves). (If you go up in a plane, you can see that this is true. Her father was a sky-god called Zeus, and her mother was a sky-goddess called Hera, so their palace floated in the sky, way above the highest mountain in Greece (which is called Olympos) and way above the clouds, where the sun is always shining and it never rains - not even when it is raining down on earth. Once there was a goddess called Athena, who lived with her brothers and sisters in a beautiful palace in the sky. Some say that the book I read was written by Princess Nausikaa herself - but I can't find it in the bookshops anymore. ![]() This is the story of a homecoming to Ithaca, that I read long ago. ![]()
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