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Athena is one of the twelve gods of Olympus in Greece, and the Roman name is Minerva. Legend has it that Zeus was born with the goddess of wisdom, Metis. Because it was predicted that Metis's child would overthrow Zeus, Zeus swallowed her whole, so Zeus got a serious headache. All the mountain gods, including Apollo, tried to treat him effectively, and the result was in vain. Zeus, the father of gods and mankind, had to ask hephaestus, the god of fire, to open his head. The Vulcans did it. To the surprise of the Olympians, an elegant and determined goddess came out of the cracked head, radiant and graceful. She is Athena, the goddess of wisdom and knowledge, the patron saint of Athens.

Athena's name is abbreviated from Athena and Athanaia in Greece. It is written as Athene and Athenaee in Ionian dialect (this name can be seen on the relief map of the besieged city of Troy), Athena and Athenaea in Dorian dialect and Athenaea in Eolia dialect. (We can also see another way to write her name in a painting of Odysseus' home by French painter bouguereau: Athhnh. This word has no etymological explanation in Greek. Since Athena's name is the same as that of Athens, people have been debating whether the goddess is named after the city or the city is named after the goddess since ancient times.

In Greek place names, many city names end with -ene, such as Mykene, which means -ene is a typical place name suffix. But Athena has a nickname called Pallas Athene, which is often called Athena 1 in Homer's epic. This shows that the goddess originally had a name pallas. Later, with the development of Athenian worship, she was called Pallas Athena, which means "pallas of Athens". Later, Athena could be the name of the goddess alone. So finding out the meaning of pallas is the key to finding out the origin of Athena. Unfortunately, people have not understood the meaning of this word. Some people interpret it as a "girl", while others interpret it as a "sword dance". However, due to its shortcomings, it can not be universally recognized, and can only be regarded as a possibility, not as a conclusion. So we must go to the myth to find the origin of Athena.

Athena is widely worshipped in the Greek world centered on Athens. This city has a typical symbol of Greek religious art-the Parthenon. This name means a girl's apartment, which is the residence of the goddess maid. But Athena has been an important god since ancient times. Her name has appeared on the linear letter B, and there are a lot of fairy tale descriptions that retain the elements of ancient legends. Athena is also called "mistress" on Mycenae slate.

According to Pilaski's records, the goddess Athena was born on Lake Nice in Tritto. Three Libyan fairies found her, so they dressed her in goatskin clothes and took care of her growing up. When she was a little girl, she accidentally killed her little friend pallas in a play. In order to express her condolences, she put pallas's name before her own. She later came to Athens via Crete. (See apollonius)

Because this material is recorded according to the legends of ancient people, the Pilaski people made many scholars associate the origin of Athena with the Libyan goddess. There are several indirect materials for this view:

"It seems that the clothes and Eggerz jacket worn by Athena were learned by the Greeks from Libyan women. Because except Libyan women's clothes are made of leather, the ears of goatskin jackets are not snakes but grass buttons, and the clothes everywhere are the same. The name itself proves that the clothes of the statue of Pallas Athena came from Libya. ..... "(Herodotus" History ")

"The law adjacent to Egypt is Essex; There is a Triton River between them and the Marcos, and they live on the shore of Trionis. ..... They hold a blessing ceremony for Athena once a year. During the blessing ceremony, their girls divided into two teams and fought each other with stones and sticks. According to them, this is to worship the monotonous goddess Athena in the way of their ancestors. " (Herodotus "History")

The discovery of Greek archaeology shows that Libyan immigrants have entered Crete as early as 4000 BC, and the historical records are basically consistent with archaeological discoveries.