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Greek mythology stories 4 - Zeus and Athena’s birth

imsoepicthemusical • Sep 26, 2026 @ 11:37am

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So basically, Zeus was married to the goddess Metis (who was the goddess of wisdom before Athena), and one day Zeus got a prophecy saying Metis will have two kids, one a smart girl and the other a boy trying to overthrow him. Zeus remembering that his dad, Cronus ATE HIS KIDS to stay in power (Poseidon, Hades, Hera, and Demeter), he had a shape shifting game with Metis and tricked her into turning into a tiny fly, then he ate her as a fly. Inside his stomach, Metis was making a full suit of armor for baby Athena, and all the hammering caused Zeus to have a terrible, horrible, extremely bad migraine (so bad he was running around Olympus thinking his head was going to explode.) When he couldn’t take the pain anymore, he had Hephaestus (or also rumored to be Prometheus) use an axe to his forehead. Out popped FULLY GROWN Athena with like full armor. This story was requested by scrapsfict0nkin! I have actually heard the (simplified) story before Usually I type these stories on the spot, but this was typed the night before Edit: why is my sister fighting me in the comments

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