MYTHOLOGY PROJECT

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ATHENA, GODDESS OF WAR AND WISDOM

• Athena is widely accepted as the main goddess of war, wisdom, strategy, and mathematics. She is also the patron goddess of the city of Athens, Greece. Athena has been proven to be extremely helpful to the people of Greece.
• Using her own shield and wisdom, Athena gave Perseus her shield to defeat Medusa. This is arguably the most famous story in

SJÖFN

SJÖFN, GODDESS OF LOVE

• Sjöfn is one of the Norse goddesses of love and compassion. She is best known for serving Frissa and sending messages to and from her handmaidens. There are many myths in which Lofn and Sjöfn are sisters, but that is not true.
• Sjöfn is the goddess of children and love, and that is because she has found children's dolls and put herself into it. When the child is sad, it then embraces the doll, and Sjöfn embraces the child back.

BENTEN

BENTEN, GODDESS OF LUCK AND MUSIC

• Benten is known to be taken from Hindu stories, but before, she wasn't a goddess of luck. After many years, she was finally known to be part of the Seven Lucky Gods.
• Benten, after she realized Japan was in danger because of an angry water dragon, decided to marry it to make it calm. The dragon was known to be very ugly, so marrying it was considered an honorable task.

SHIVA

SHIVA, GOD OF DESTRUCTION

• Shiva, the god of fertility, poison, asceticism, medicine, and meditation, is known to be a very powerful god. Along with the gods of creation and longevity, he keeps the earth in balance.
• One of the most important things that Shiva does is destroy ego, bad habits, and attachments in creatures, but it means destroying the whole creature. His two sons, his wife being Priva, are the gods Skanda and Ganesha