Briana’s Myth
By: Briana Montiel
There was a man named Man . He was named man because his parents hated him a lot. He was up on a mountain with some of his soldiers and Athena, the goddess of wisdom, was up on a higher mountain she threw a sword at him. It hit him and cut his head off. His soldiers screamed and ran. They ran down and didn’t stop. They got to the village where Man lived with his wife, Wife.
“Your husband was killed by Athena the goddess of wisdom.”
Wife stayed still for a while she couldn’t believe what she was hearing. The soldiers left disappointed. Wife started to cry she quickly grabbed a backpack and packed a water bottle, snack, blanket, and rope and set out to find Athena and ask her for her husband back.
Wife walked for a very long time until she finally found Athena, the goddess of wisdom, up on a mountain. She grabbed her rope and climbed up the mountain.
There Wife said to Athena, “Please bring back my husband!”
Athena turned around and quickly and said to Wife “I will never bring Man back to life. He hated me and always said lies about me disobeying the other gods especially my father Zeus, he did not honor me because he thought I was the less important of all gods!”
“Please!” cried out Wife.
“ENOUGH!” yelled the goddess.
“Are you going to disobey me as well? I am powerful you mortals will obey me! Do you hear me?”
At that Athena disappeared and Wife was left alone on top of the mountain. Wife was upset but tired so she grabbed her blanket from her backpack and fell asleep. Zeus was watching the whole thing from up a higher mountain. He was upset at Athena for killing Man for Man was one of Zeus’s closest friends.
He came down to Wife and said “I will bring back your husband.”
Wife woke up and cried “Thank you!”
She was so happy that Man was coming back to life that she cried tears of joy and so many tears that it created a river. Zeus brought Man back to life and Wife and him lived happily ever after. That is the story of how the River Enipeus was made.
Here is a map of the Enipeus River: