Minerva
The Roman goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, strategic warfare, commerce, weaving, and the crafts.
The stories surrounding Minerva, and her Greek version Athena, are legion. Jupiter has a splitting headache - to name but one legend. Vulcan eventually did a craniotomy and out jumped Minerval. Some said that Jupiter had swallowed her mother whole after he had impregnated her. Others said that Minerva was not conceived by intercourse, but from a thought about the Logo, the Word, in Jupiter's mind.
As a patron of wisdom, Minerva frequently features in statuary, as an image on seals, and on many colleges and educational institutions. As she does on the dome of my alma mater - Dumfries Academy.
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