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 | | Palladium: According to the myth, when the goddess Athena was still a young girl, she was brought up in the house of the god Triton whose daughter, Pallas, was as equally talented as Athena in the art of war. |
 | | During a fight between the two girls, Athena killed Pallas by accident in front of Zeus. |
 | | The goddess, suffering the loss of her friend, used her considerable technical ability to build the famous Palladium (a wooden statue) in the likeness of her friend. |
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