Hippolyte named her after a holy warrior, Diana, and she grew up knowing the love of a thousand mothers. Blessed with Gaea's greatest gift, life, the gods present bestowed their gifts upon the newborn: Demeter granted the baby great strength, Aphrodite granted her great beauty and a loving heart, Athena granted her great wisdom, Artemis granted her the eye of the hunter and unity with beasts, Hestia granted her sisterhood with fire, and Hermes gave her great speed and the power of flight. The gods, recognizing it was time for the remaining soul in Gaea's womb to depart, infused it into the clay form, which then incarnated as a real child. As per her advise, Hippolyte went to the shore at sunrise and made a clay figure of a baby. Menalippe, the Oracle, told her she was the only Amazon pregnant at the time of her previous incarnation's death, and thus the yearning she felt was the call of her unborn child. It is during this time that Hippolyte, sole leader of the Amazons, felt an unexplained yearning. The Amazons built a nation and lived there for 4,000 years. They were granted immortality as long as they did not stray from their new purpose, which would eventually purify their souls. Antiope gave Hippolyta her girdle and left to pursue revenge The goddesses appeared and told them they had failed in their purpose and banished them to an island to guard the terrible evil within, as penance. She shared Athena's message to the Amazons, but blinded by their thirst for revenge, they ruthlessly slaughter the remaining men. Hippolyte escaped and freed the rest of the Amazons. In her cell, Hippolyte is freed by Athena ,who reminds her of her purpose and asked her to avoid revenge and pursue peaceful means. When their guard was down, the Greeks drugged the Amazons, taking Hippolyte, Antiope and the other survivors captive. Heracles approached the Amazons but was defeated by Hippolyte, upon which he pretended friendship and declared the Amazons allies. Stories of this civilization spread throughout Greece and reached the ears of Heracles, who was being manipulated by Ares into attacking the Amazons. They then appointed Hippolyte and Antiope as co-rulers. The new race in Greece were approached by the goddesses, who bestowed upon them several blessings, charging them with the purpose of leading humanity in the ways of Gaea. Aphrodite observed that one soul still remains in the Womb, to which Athena replied that the time had not yet come for that one. Artemis then sent the souls to Greece where they reincarnated into adult women. With the aid of Charon the ferryman, the gods reached the Womb of Gaea, where the souls of women who were abused and murdered at the hands of men were preserved by Gaea herself. Zeus rejected their arguments, and they decided to proceed without his blessing. This was opposed by the others gods present including Artemis, who wanted peace and suggested creating a new race that would lead humans on the right path. Ares, the god of war and destruction, wanted to descend upon the world with his army and crush mankind submission. a debate occurred on Mount Olympus on how mankind should be made to relate to the gods. In this version, the Amazons were reincarnations of the souls of abused and murdered women from ancient days. In the golden age, this was accompanied by a romantic relationship between Diana and Steve Trevor that persisted throughout the golden and silver age versions of the character.Īfter Crisis on Infinite Earths, the character’s origin was slightly retold by Greg Potter and George Perez.
When Steve Trevor, an American pilot, crash landed on Paradise Island, the Amazons had a contest to determine who should receive the honor and responsibility to take him back to Man’s World and serve as the champion emissary of all the Amazons represent. She grew up among the Amazons who taught her the skills of a warrior as well as the lessons of peace and love. Her mother, Hippolyta, created her out of clay, and the Greek gods bestowed her with life. Until DC's New 52 relaunch, there were a few other aspects of the origin story that remained consistent. After growing up on this island, Wonder Woman (whom her mother named Diana) journeys to Man’s World on a mission of diplomacy, peace, and love.
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She is the princess of the Amazons, a race of women who live free of men on Paradise Island (later dubbed Themyscira). As one of the longest continually published comic book characters, Wonder Woman’s history has undergone some changes over the years, though a few elements remain consistent in all of her depictions.
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