Quote Originally Posted by Jon Clark View Post
Except it seems needlessly comples to give her divine origins (either demi-god status or magical clay) if we then are going to give her powers from a second divine event. If she is just a normal Amazon, she could as easily be Hippolyta's natural child (and via Zeus either).
In my perfect origin it would be Hippolyta sculpting Diana from the clay of paradise and Gaia bringing her to life. Diana would get two moms, but by all means she's just an amazon, special via her creation but naturally just an amazon. She learns and grows into womanhood, have a prophesy about her creation and the start of the amazon's new chapter in their history or something, but its only after winning the contest the gods bless her. She needs to prover herself as best of the best before getting any special gifts. This leaves the possibility that any amazon could have been champion and would explain some amazons (Nubia) being as powerful as her without blood connections.

Diana sculpted from clay is more symbolic of a feminine reinterpretation of the creation of man from the Bible. Instead of man being created from clay and God giving him life, a woman sculpts a girl from clay and a goddess (in my head canon, Gaia the literal embodiment of mother creation) brings her to life. Her title as a goddess is just a title, its meaningless without actions behind it. You want Diana to be a goddess level being? writers/artist just need to treat her as one.