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The "hieros gamos" of Zeus with the earth goddess (finally named Hera) was celebrated at Knossos in Crete. [1] [65] In Near East the solar-deity and the moon-goddess are often represented as a bull and a cow [65] and Roscher proposed that Hera was a moon-goddess. [66] The combination feminine divinity-cow-moon is not unusual in Crete and Near ...
Ira is a beautiful young woman, sometimes wearing a high cylindrical crown. She has an emblem that includes a scepter topped with a cuckoo and a pomegranate, the symbol of married love and fruitfulness. Ira has a peacock sacred to her, showing the services of the hundred-eyed Argus. [2]
Hera (c. 1643) by Carel Fabritius. Hera or Hera Hiding During the Battle Between the Gods and the Giants is a c. 1643 oil on canvas painting by Carel Fabritius, produced during his apprenticeship in Rembrandt's studio or shortly afterwards. It is now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
She was equated to Hera, queen of the gods in Greek mythology and a goddess of love and marriage. A daughter of Saturn and Ops, she was the sister and wife of Jupiter and the mother of Mars, Vulcan, Bellona, Lucina and Juventas. Like Hera, her sacred animal was the peacock. [1]
Argus was Hera's servant. His great service to the Olympian pantheon was to slay the chthonic serpent-legged monster Echidna as she slept in her cave. [7] Hera's defining task for Argus was to guard the white heifer Io from Zeus, who was attracted to her, keeping her chained to the sacred olive tree at the Argive Heraion. [8]
After Hera detained Io, now transformed into a cow, from Zeus, she placed her under the careful guard of Argus. Zeus sent Hermes to retrieve Io, who did so by killing Argus. Hera honoured her faithful guardman by transforming him into a peacock (in some versions, she placed his one hundred eyes on the tail of her peacock). Arne: Jackdaw: The gods
Categories and pages relating to Hera, the queen of gods and goddess of marriage in Greek mythology. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Restored ruins of the temple Olympia site map: #4 Temple of Hera is in dark purple (top center). The long ancient Olympic stadium is at far right. Olympic flame. The Temple of Hera, or Heraion, is an ancient Archaic Greek temple at Olympia, Greece, that was dedicated to Hera, queen of the Greek gods [1]: 195–197 .