Despite the objections of the deities, the sage sacrificed himself, and his bones were employed in the manufacture of new arms by Vishvakarma. Jnaneshwari Peeth in Karki village of coastal Karnataka also houses a temple dedicated to Saraswati, where she is known as Jnaneshwari.

The books are taken out for reading, after worship, only on the morning of the third day (Vijaya Dashami). Minerva ( / m ə ˈ n ɜːr v ə/; Latin: [mɪˈnɛru̯ä]; Etruscan: Menrva) is the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy.This led to some questioning whether who her father was, but most now claim that she was the daughter of Zeus and the adopted daughter of Triton.

Thus, in the Library of Celsus in Ephesus, built in the 2nd century, there are four statues of female allegories, depicting wisdom (Sophia), knowledge ( Episteme), intelligence ( Ennoia) and valour/excellence ( Arete). When she became pregnant, the King of Gods remembered the danger he posed to his own father, Cronos, and in turn, how Cronos dealt with his father Ouranos. It states that the creator deity had fallen in love with the woman who had emerged from his own mind.The two women held a sparring match as a fun way to see who was stronger, but an accident led to Pallas’s death. By the Roman Empire, it became common to depict the cardinal virtues and other abstract ideals as female allegories. Saraswati is not just the goddess of knowledge and wisdom, but also the Brahmavidya herself, the goddess of the wisdom of ultimate truth.

The expression Ἁγία Σοφία itself is not found in the New Testament, even though passages in the Pauline epistles equate Christ with the "wisdom of God" ( θεοῦ σοφία). The noun σοφία as "skill in handicraft and art" is Homeric and in Pindar is used to describe both Hephaestos and Athena.She was known for her intelligence and cunning nature and was often associated with wisdom, smart advice, and strategic planning. In the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, the feminine personification of divine wisdom as Holy Wisdom ( Ἁγία Σοφία; Hagía Sophía) can refer either to Jesus Christ the Word of God (as in the dedication of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople) or to the Holy Spirit. Because of this Minerva turned her into a monster, replacing her hair with hissing snakes and removing her charm. Minerva is displayed as a bronze statue in Frederick Ruckstull's 1920 Altar to Liberty: Minerva monument near the top of Battle Hill, the highest point of Brooklyn, New York, in Green-Wood Cemetery. According to the mythology sources that have survived since ancient times, the story of Metis came to an end after Zeus swallowed her.