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So Hera goes to Cronus and he gives her two eggs smeared with his own semen, telling her to bury them, and that from them would be born one who would overthrow Zeus. Hera, angry at Zeus, buries the eggs in Cilicia "under Arimon", but when Typhon is born, Hera, now reconciled with Zeus, informs him. [196]
According to Stephanus of Byzantium, Zeus and Hera first lay together at the city of Hermione, having come there from Crete. [121] Callimachus, in a fragment from his Aetia, also apparently makes reference to the couple's union occurring at Naxos. [122] Though no complete account of Zeus and Hera's wedding exists, various authors make reference ...
In some traditions, Rhea disapproved of her children Hera and Zeus getting married, so the two had to elope in order to be together. [25] Rhea was present in the birth of her grandson Apollo, along with many other goddesses, the most notable exceptions being Hera and Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, whose absence left Leto in terrible ...
Hieros gamos of Hera (shown with Iris) and Zeus, 1900 drawing of a fresco at Pompeii.. Hieros gamos, (from Ancient Greek: ἱερός, romanized: hieros, lit. 'holy, sacred' and γάμος gamos 'marriage') or hierogamy (Ancient Greek: ἱερὸς γάμος, ἱερογαμία 'holy marriage') is a sacred marriage that takes place between gods, especially when enacted in a symbolic ritual ...
Zeus fell in love with the Argive princess Io, but Hera was quick to notice her husband's infidelity, so Zeus transformed the girl into a cow to hide her from her. Hera sent a gadfly to torment Io through the entire Mediterranean; Io only turned back into a human after Zeus begged Hera to let her go. Lycaon ("wolf") Wolf: Zeus
The section of the Iliad that ancient editors called the Dios apate (the "Deception of Zeus") stands apart from the remainder of Book XIV. In this episode, Hera makes an excuse to leave her divine husband Zeus ; in her deception speech she declares that she wishes to go to Oceanus , "origin of the gods", and Tethys the "mother".
Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and often visited them on Earth. Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mount Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus with the nymphs. Echo, by trying to protect Zeus (as he had ordered her to do), endured Hera's wrath, and Hera made her only able to speak the last words spoken to ...
However, Hera was the goddess of the marital order and of cuckolded wives, amongst other things. She was often portrayed as the shrewish, jealous wife of Zeus, who himself often escaped from her controlling ways by cheating on her with other women, mortal and immortal.