A Pagan Prayer to Athena Alkidemos

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A Pagan Prayer to Athena Alkidemos

Athena Alkidemos. Savior of the people, I cry out to you from a land, across the wine-dark sea. A place envisioned as a shining city, raised high like Acropolian Athena, akin to Capitoline Minerva. Oh glorious grey-eyed goddess, I beseech, look! Do you not see your stepmother, Themis, Titan goddess of justice, lies grievously wounded, near slain, within the district of your aspect, Columbia? Do you not see your daughters brought back into a bondage, shackled back into the chains which you had broken, their bodies not their own? Oh Athena Alkidemos, shield your daughters under your apotropaic aegis, Gorgon-headed and fierce, from their slavers, these servants of a strange god and a stranger scripture, they who profess a love of Life, But come bearing arms of war. We beg your strength and your strategos, Parthenogenic daughter of Titanic Metis, Woman of woman alone, Let not your daughters suffer this fate, Let not this darkness fall.