#tannit

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It doesn't mean that Athena started out as the Libyan deity. it's more complicated than that. her roots are widely considered to be in the pre-Greek, Minoan civilization, and the earliest possible potential written reference comes from a Minoan text at Knossos, which mentions "lady of Atana,". Unlike Aphrodite where we have more evidence of Aphrodite starting out as a near eastern goddess originating from the Phoenician and Mesopotamian goddesses Astarte and Inanna/Ishtar, we just dont have the same or as much for Athena besides the speculations of Greek writers. Although im drawing from greek religious historians such as Jennifer Larson, if you have any academic exploration on this topic, I would be very happy to read them!

No offense, but you would be drawing from Greek sources and trying to steal our goddess. Very well, I'm sure you're familiar with Herodotus? He said Athena was North African. If you have read his writings you would know even he states our religion is the oldest known to womankind.

Athena started out as Tannit in Africa. Not Minoa or Greece or Iberia or any other place. It's even in Athena's epithet, Tritogeneia. Born of Lake Triton. In Africa.

In fact, Herodotus himself noted the similarities between Libyan women’s attire and that of Athena, suggesting that even the iconic Greek goddess had North African roots. According to him, the Libyan women’s cloaks, made of leather, adorned with tassels, resembled the aegis worn by Athena. For Herodotus, this wasn’t a coincidence. It was cultural borrowing in action. He knew they stole this from Africa. Everyone knows the Egyptians are older than the Greeks. The Egyptians say they also adopted Neith from Libya and the great desert.

We have plenty outside of "speculation of Greek writers" because we know Tannit. Tannit is not imported from Phoenicia. We know her. She is a warrior. She is why we have strong women warriors like Queen Dihya. She is why Amazigh, Tuareg, and Berber women sing with boisterous and voluminous voices and have blue eyes and green eyes like the lake she came from in Africa. She is our Queen of the Night, Lady of the Moon and Stars, of the bow and the sea and spider and the serpent.

Athena is Neith, Athena is Tannit, Athena is not Greek, Athena is African and still venerated by the Indigenous Amazigh, Berber and other various North African people.

This is what Herodotus meant when he said Athena is North African. That's North African clothing that we do wear to this day

(I have a necklace just like that from the last time I went to the Atlas Mountains.)

Yes the statue of liberty is meant to be an Amazigh woman, we have spiked headresses exactly like that. fuck french colonizers, did you notice the chain on its ankle? Our women would never stand for this. The Statue of Liberty represents French colonization of the Free People of the Atlas, the Amazigh. The U.S is the modern roman empire and their version of Athena in Athens is the Statue of Liberty.