Where is goddess Athena from?

Answer 1

Athena was born out of Zeus' head, as a fully armed adult female warrior Goddess.

She was the Goddess protector of Athens and other cities throughout the rest of Greece, from the Sparta in the Peloponnese to Priene or Troy in Ionia and Aeolis, and from Amphipolis in Macedonia to Syracusa in Sicily.

Her name first appears on fired clay tablets in the Minoan-Mycenaean palace of Knossos, in Crete, from circa 1375 BC.

In one of these tables (KN V52=Doc. nº 208) ATANAPOTINIJA is mentioned:

ATANAPOTINIJA ~ ATANA POTINIJA ~ ΑΘΑΝΑ ΠΟΤΝΙΑ ~ to Lady Athena.

Athene/Athana/Athena's name is probably related to athanes/αθανής = the undying, the immortal, which would make sense as a name for the warrior Goddess that protects cities and citadels through defensive war. Αθανασία/athanasia means immortality in Greek.

Athena, being the warrior protector of cities, is also goddess of everything related to the city and civilized life, like wisdom, the arts, industry, justice, even the part of agriculture necessary for the basic survival of the city (in Athens she is protecting the olive tree, essential for Athenian agriculture economy).