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According to myth, Zeus heard a prophecy that stated that he would be overthrown by his newborn child around the time Athena's mother was pregnant. Worried, Zeus ate Athena's mother to prevent such prophecy from happening. When the baby was supposed to be born, Zeus got a splitting headache and asked Hephaestus to open his head with an axe, Hephaestus complied, and out popped Athena from her father's head, clothed in battle armor, clutching a spear and uttering a war cry.

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