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Minerva (; ; Etruscan: ''Menrva'') was the Roman goddess of wisdom and sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. She was born with weapons from the head of Jupiter.〔Encarta World English Dictionary 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation.〕 After impregnating the titaness Metis, Jupiter recalled a prophecy that his own child would overthrow him. Fearing that their child would grow stronger than him and rule the Heavens in his place, Jupiter swallowed Metis whole. The titaness forged weapons and armor for her child while within the father-god, and the constant pounding and ringing gave him a headache. To relieve the pain, Vulcan used a hammer to split Jupiter's head and, from the cleft, Minerva emerged, whole, adult, and bearing her mother's weapons and armor. From the 2nd century BC onwards, the Romans equated her with the Greek goddess Athena.〔''Larousse Desk Reference Encyclopedia'', The Book People, Haydock, 1995, p. 215.〕 She was the virgin goddess of music, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, and magic. She is often depicted with her sacred creature, an owl usually named as the "owl of Minerva",〔''Philosophy of Right'' (1820), "Preface"〕 which symbolizes that she is connected to wisdom. ==Etruscan Menrva== (詳細はEtruscans adopted the inherited Old Latin name, '' *Menerwā'', thereby calling her Menrva. It is assumed that her Roman name, Minerva, is based on this Etruscan mythology. Minerva was the goddess of wisdom, war, art, schools and commerce. She was the Etruscan counterpart to Greek Athena. Like Athena, Minerva was born from the head of her father, Jupiter (Greek Zeus). By a process of folk etymology, the Romans could have linked her foreign name to the root ''men-'' in Latin words such as ''mens'' meaning "mind", perhaps because one of her aspects as goddess pertained to the intellectual. The word ''mens'' is built from the Proto-Indo-European root '' *men-'' 'mind' (linked with memory as in Greek Mnemosyne/μνημοσύνη and ''mnestis''/μνῆστις: memory, remembrance, recollection, ''manush'' in Sanskrit meaning mind). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minerva」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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