In this story,
Zeus had fallen in love once more. This time he adored the titan
Metis.
Metis didn't like him at all and she tried to escape from
him by all means. For this she transformed into all
different kind of animals, plants or shapes, but nothing worked out and
Zeus could find her every time.
Finally, one day she
decided to transform herself into a fly.
However, this
was not really a good thought and one day she got eaten by Zeus. Then,
strangely, she got pregnant inside his body.
Now
she was captured inside Zeus' head and it started to hurt him intensively and
to stretch. In panic, Zeus called Hephaistos,
who was famous for astuteness.
He look at it quite conventional,
took a axe and split the head of Zeus in two. Out of
his head raised Pallas Athena fully clothed with all her weapons. She
personified spirit, inspiration and intelligence, in comparison to
Hephaistos
who was not at all so delicate.
Athene
was born from a head and in many parts of Greece people adored her much more than Zeus. In
fact, if there would have ever been a battle between the gods, Athena
would have been the only goddess to cause Zeus some serious trouble.
