Metis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Metis ("wisdom") wasTitanessess who wasfirst wifeZeus andmotherAthena. She wasgoddesswisdomdeep thought. Metis gave Zeus an emeticforce Cronusvomit out Zeus' brotherssisters.

Zeus layMetis but immediately fearedconsequences. It had been prophesied that Metis would bear children more powerful than Zeus himself. In orderforestall these dire consequences, Zeus swallowed Metis immediately after lyingher. He was already too late: Metis immediately conceivedchild. Metis immediately began makinghelmetrobeher fetal daughter. The hammering as she madehelmet caused Zeus great painPrometheus, Hephaestus, Hermes or Palamoan (depending onsources examined) cleaved Zeus's headan axe atriver Triton. Athena leaped from Zeus's head, fully grown, armed,armored,Zeus was noneworse forexperience.

She was alsomotherPorus.

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One ofmoons ofplanet Jupiter was namedher1979.