My view of Athena is probably highly influenced by Neal Stephenson's interpretation of her in Cryptonomicon as the patron of "technical solutions".
I gave a Hwarin-worshipping Tribune the Earth rune to cover the non-martial stuff and Mastery to cover the martial stuff. Civilisation, crafts, practical work, orderly governance seems like Earth to me. Presumably it could also be Fire (what with the Dara Happan expertise with cities)?
This really just encourages me more to concentrate on the cultural/cult views of the deity, rather than the "objective view". Athena had several 'aspects' afterall...
2009/8/6 Greg Stafford <glorantha1_at_nqL9pANT-QWGYoc5g5U-DT7tguyS5NlXzNIWhrBcoDJlKncMTHggFJM8-Fk_dJopFXe7WiEhn4KDqbHIZJA.yahoo.invalid>
> YGWV
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> Hwarin Dalthippa is a raised goddess, and (like Athena, upon she is
> partially modeled) the goddess of the city, the people, and of its
> civilization, its government, and all its civilized arts and crafts.
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> What rune is that?
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John Machin
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- Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.
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