Gnostic Glossary: Greek Pantheon

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. – Revelation 9:11

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(Gr.). A goddess of fertility, beauty, and healing, worshipped across the ancient Near East, and identified with the Babylonian Ishtar.

Athena created the heroes amongst the Greeks; she gave them their armaments, crafted for them all of the elements they would need in order to face the terrors they had to overcome. See also Minerva.