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because her father, Zeus, turned his wife into a fly and swallowed her so she wouldn't have any boys who become more powerful than him. What he didn't know was that his wife was pregnant with Athena. He was getting killer headaches so he asked Hephuestus to axe open his forehead which Athena than came out of in full armor.

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