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Metis was Athena's mother. An oracle consulted Zeus while she was pregnant with Athena telling him that the child would one day overtake him and olympus. Zeus, afraid then ate Metis.

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Metis was the mother of Zeus's daughter Athena.


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It was prophesied that Athena's mother, Metis, would bear children more powerful than Zeus. After lying with Metis, Zeus ate Metis in order to forestall that prophecy. But he was too late: Metis had already conceived and Athena eventually leaped from Zeus' forehead, fully-grown and armed.


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