What is the mythological connection between Athena and the snake depicted in many representations of Athena?

1. Who was Athena?
A fictitious character or a revived version of a female
from the early chapters of Genesis?

4. Athena and
Poseidon

9. Athena and
Heracles

10. Athena, Hera, and Demeter

12. Athena, Heracles supporting the sky, and Atlas

14. The Greeks called Noah Nereus, "The
Wet One," and often referred to him as
"The Salt Sea Old Man." Greek artists
defined the development of their
contrary religious outlook (man, not
God, as the measure of all things) as
being in opposition to Nereus/Noah.
On the Altar of Zeus at Pergamon (ca.
190 BC), Nereus, the Greek Noah, isText
the only one of scores of figures not
actively engaged in the battle. The
sculptors have placed him as a mute
witness to the Greek gods’ defeat of
the Giants (his Yahweh-believing sons)
signifying the end of Greek faith in his
God. Revelation 2:13 refers to the Altar The sons of God
of Zeus as "the throne of Satan." (“giants”)intermarried with the
daughters of men, but are killed
off by the Greek gods

15. The inscription on this shield-
band panel from 550 BC identifies
the figures as Herakles and
Halios Geron, the “Salt Sea Old
Man,” an obvious allusion to
Nereus/Noah. His bottom half
is a fish, signifying that he came
through the great Flood.
Herakles, the Nimrod of
Genesis, demands to know
something that only the Salt Sea
Old Man can tell him. A flame
and a snake come out of Nereus’
head. Herakles demands to
know from Nereus, a living
connection to the pre-Flood
world, where he can find the
enlightenment of the serpent.

16. In the next picture the Greeks celebrate the rebirth of the line of
“Kain” in Athens. Earth (Gaia) presents the new-born child to
Athena, who represents the reborn serpent-friendly Eve after the
Flood.
“The figure to the left of Gaia and the child is Hephaistos, the
eldest son of Zeus and Hera, the deified Kain, the eldest son of
Adam and Eve.
“According to the “myth” surrounding this event, Athena obtained
the sperm, or seed, of Hephaistos (Kain), and placed it into the
Earth, and out of Earth sprang the rejuvenated line of Kain after
the Flood.
“The essence of ancient Greek religion is very simple. After the
Flood which caused the line of Kain to disappear into the earth,
Athena, the reborn serpent-friendly Eve, nurtures the reborn line
of Kain which re-emerges from the earth into which it had
disappeared.” (Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. in The Parthenon Code)

18. In the next two sculptures (restored in color
by Holmes Bryant based on the physical
evidence) appeared over the main entrance
to the temple of Zeus at Olympia. Says
Johnson, “They, too, provide a simple
summary of the great celebration of Zeus-
religion. On the one to the left, the great
hero Herakles kills a three-bodied man
named Geryon. Nereus, the Greek Noah,
was referred to often as Halios Geron, the
Salt Sea Old Man, and sometimes simply as
Geron, the Old Man. The written word
Geryon itself suggests the outspring (or
offspring) of Geron, the Old Man. The
three-bodied Geryon represents the
authority of the three sons of Noah, and
Herakles by force of arms is figuratively
overcoming that authority. On Geryon's
shield is painted the tripod from the
prophetic temple of Apollo at Delphi,
symbolizing the future. Herakles the
rebel, not the sons of Noah, will control
mankind's future.

19. “In the second sculpture, with the help of
Athena, Herakles pushes away the heavens
and with them, the God of the heavens,
receiving from Atlas the golden apples from
the serpent's tree in the Garden of the
Hesperides.
“Together, the sculptures present a very
clear message: after overcoming the
authority of the three sons of Noah,
Herakles is able to get back to the serpent's
tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and
obtain the precious fruit which symbolizes
the enlightenment of the serpent. The God
of Noah is no longer the measure of all
things, man is. (Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. in
The Parthenon Code)

20. “This vase depicts Herakles as getting the serpent's apples directly from
the Garden instead of from the intermediary, Atlas. Getting to the apples is
the twelfth and final labor of Herakles, and what the eleven others
ultimately pointed to. Note that the vase-artist has depicted the serpent
with a beard, a symbol of age. The Book of Revelation refers to the beast
as ‘the ancient serpent.’” (Johnson)

21. “Greek stories about their origins are varied and sometimes
contradictory until their poets and artists settle upon Zeus
and Hera as the couple from whom the other Olympian gods
and mortal men are descended. This brother/sister and
husband/wife pair, the king and queen of the gods, are a
match for the Adam and Eve of Genesis. . . . This couple is
the beginning of the family of man, and the origin of the
family of the Greek gods, Zeus and Hera. [The next picture]
shows us Zeus and his wife Hera, sculpted on the east frieze
of the Parthenon, c. 438 BC. With no Creator-God in the
Greek religious system, the first couple advances to
the forefront.” (Johnson)