Athena and the spider web. Short stories for children

Greek mythology has the most interesting stories that can be adapted in the form of short stories for children. In this way, children learn history in a fun way and develop their imagination and creativity. Athena is known to be the Greek goddess of wisdom, but she had many other roles as a goddess.

Greek mythology has the most interesting stories that can be adapted in the form of short stories for children. In this way, children learn history in a fun way and develop their imagination and creativity.

Athena is known to be the Greek goddess of wisdom, but she had many other roles as a goddess. Among them were the manual works and the elaboration of the weaves with looms, in embroideries or in sewing. She is also the one who created the first spider web and in this legend they explain how and why.

The first spider web created by Athena

Arachne was the daughter of a dyer from the Lydia region. Besides being a very skillful girl with the loom, she was also a little vain and spent her days bragging about how well she wove. It was true that he knitted well; He did it so well that merchants from all over the world went to his house to buy his creations on the loom and his canvases. But it was not as good as she thought.

One of those days that Arachne believed herself the best in the world with the loom, it occurred to her to say that she was even more capable than the goddess Athena. And of course, the goddess was enraged because no one, but nobody, is capable of being better than Athena in terms of crafts, which for something is a goddess. So Athena came down from Olympus and faced Arachne.

- How dare you say that you are a better weaver than me! - said the goddess Athena to Arachne.

- Because I am better than you and whenever you want I show you! - Answered Arachne.

So they decided to solve the discussion with a loom competition to see which of the two made the most beautiful creation on the loom. They spent several days weaving, they did not eat, they did not go to sleep, they did not rest. And each one in her loom was striving to weave the más most beautiful drawing . Finally they finished it and the truth is that the goddessAthena got a surprise. Arachne

had woven a beautiful pattern that represented all the Olympian gods very realistically, so the goddess Athena got angry and did not want to give her arm to twist. - Mine is prettier- said

Athena . And since she was a goddess, nobody dared to contradict her.But everyone knew that the drawing of

Arachne was prettier. I also knew Athena , who took it so badly that she turnedArachne into a frightening hairy spider . Until then there had never been a spider in the world, but all the people were very scared to see the girl turned into a spider. When people saw what had happened, they askedAthena to soften the punishment a bit and in the end the goddess gave her a little pain and her heart softened. So he decided to reward the young

Arachne , who was now a hairy spider, leaving him to spend the rest of his life doing what he liked to do most, which was weaving. And that's how the spiders began to weave theirspider web and never, never stop weaving it. Laura Vélez.

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