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Myths and Legends

346: Athena: Friends in Need

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.825.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Tales of everyone's favorite Olympian in charge of warfare, wisdom (& crafts!): Athena. Well, everyone's favorite except for anyone who has been led to a grisly adventurer fate by her. Or been turned into a monster by her. Or has adopted a snake from her. Or...

The creature is Hyena Man! He's way worse than the DC Comics supervillain that shares his name because he will literally eat children.

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Music:

"Elderberry" by Chad Crouch
"Freesia" by Chad Crouch
"Delham Corner" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Darkened Treeline" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Qi" by Blue Dot Sessions
"La Focsa" by Blue Dot Sessions

Transcript

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0:00.0

Quick disclaimer, we're back in Greek myth, so there's just sort of a blanket, violence, and some sexual assault this week.

0:05.7

Nothing too graphic, but it is there.

0:07.7

Please check out the post on myth podcast.com for more info.

0:11.0

This week on myths and legends we're telling the stories of

0:14.0

Athena from Greek myth. We'll see the benefits of bribery as long as you're not

0:18.3

offering to turn someone into a crime-fighting Socrates and how you should be

0:22.3

careful when giving pet snakes to children,

0:24.9

especially when that pet snake is your adopted son.

0:28.1

The creature this week is Hy-Ein' A Man, who might sound like a third tier DC comics villain,

0:33.8

and he is, but he's also a monster from Molly,

0:36.8

who makes the werewolf look fun and chill. This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore.

0:57.0

Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins.

1:01.0

Others are stories that might be new to you but are

1:03.4

definitely worth a listen. We're going through the stories of the Olympians from

1:06.6

Greek mythology. We've covered Hermes, Hephae, Apollo, and Artemis, and now we're

1:11.5

on to Athena,

1:12.6

daughter Ish of Zeus, and goddess of wisdom, warfare,

1:16.8

and crafts.

1:17.8

We'll jump in at the end of the story

1:20.1

with Athena reconnecting with an old friend, a while after she helped him get home. Hey Odysseus, Odysseus heard while he was out telling the fields, he froze and then

1:40.0

bolted.

1:41.0

Nope, no, no, no, nope.

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