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Take any myth from the ancient world. Behind it you will likely find real people. Yet many of the myths sound too outrageous to be true.

The story of Athena's birth is no exception. Her titan mother, Metis, was said to be the wisest individual of all time. Her father, king of the gods, Zeus, became jealous of his future children by Metis and swallowed the mother whole. Later, Athena was born full grown and armored from her father's head. The picture conjured by this description would seem riciculous until we understand what is distorting our image.

It is only human nature to tell such stories in terms that are familiar. To the primitive hunter gatherers of Ice Age Europe, a technologically advanced matriarchal island empire being swallowed whole by the sea could not be described in those terms. The empire would become to them a wise, but ill fated, titan named Metis. The refugees of that island empire would also be female by rule, and they would become Athena. Their escape from the head city would be Athena's emergence from her father's head. Those refugees would settle in primitive Europe fully armed with their technology and their social maturity — ready to rebuild civilization. That maturity could only be described by the primitives as "full grown" at birth.

Behind these refugees was one woman named Merla. Over the ages her name evolved into Merva, and finally Minerva. She was also known by the city she had founded — Pel es Atenai (Pallas Athena). Edge of Remembrance is her story. Click here to get your copy now.