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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 ...
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]
Her symbols include the peacock, cuckoo, and cow. Poseidon: Neptune: God of the seas, water, storms, hurricanes, earthquakes and horses. The middle son of Cronus and Rhea. Brother of Zeus and Hades. Married to the Nereid Amphitrite; although, as with many of the male Greek gods, he had many lovers. His symbols include the trident, horse, bull ...
Art contributed to how the Greeks conceived of the gods, and depictions would often assign them certain symbols, such as the thunderbolt of Zeus or the trident of Poseidon. [17] The principal gods of the Greek pantheon were the twelve Olympians, [30] who lived on Mount Olympus, [31] and were connected to each other as part of a single family. [32]
Juno (English: / ˈ dʒ uː n oʊ / JOO-noh; Latin Iūnō) was an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counsellor of the state.She was equated to Hera, queen of the gods in Greek mythology and a goddess of love and marriage.
In Greek mythology, Io (/ ˈ aɪ. oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Ἰώ) was one of the mortal lovers of Zeus. An Argive princess, she was an ancestor of many kings and heroes, such as Perseus, Cadmus, Heracles, Minos, Lynceus, Cepheus, and Danaus. The astronomer Simon Marius named a moon of Jupiter after Io in 1614.
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
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.