Hera, the queen of heaven, specializes in playing the junior
Hera, the sharer of the kingship of Zeus, is known as the supreme third generation of the Queen of Heaven. She was the guardian of marriage and childbearing, and was one of the earliest feminists, advocating "monogamy".
However, ironically, her husband Zeus is very amorous and frequently cheats. Faced with all this, Hera felt helpless and could only punish his lovers.
Thus, in ancient Greek mythology, Hera was portrayed as a jealous woman dedicated to guarding marriages and punishing betrayers.
As the third sister of Zeus and one of the five compatriots he rescued from his father's womb, Hera's sculpture is extremely noble. In ancient Greek, "Hera" means "noble woman", which is her own symbol.
However, in the face of Zeus's pursuit of the younger brother, Hera was not immediately interested.
Although Zeus already had six wives, he still had a deep affection for this mature and beautiful sister Hera. Zeus understood that it was not wise to pursue directly, so he chose to outwit.
On a cold and rainy morning, Zeus turned into a wounded bird and landed on Hera's windowsill. Hera took pity on the little bird, held it in her hand, and put it in her arms to keep it warm.
Zeus took the opportunity to turn back into human form and tried to forcibly take Hera. Hera knew she couldn't resist it, so she made one condition: Zeus had to agree to marry her and share power.
Zeus agreed to this condition, promising to marry Hera and share power. After that, they became husband and wife. Hera bore Zeus four children, Hephaestus, the god of fire, Ares, the god of war, Eleteah, the goddess of childbirth, and Heber, the goddess of youth.
After three hundred years of secret life, Hera was finally officially canonized by Zeus as the third queen of heaven, which caused a warm response among the gods. At her grand feast, Gaia, the Mother of the Earth, presented her with a golden apple tree as a symbol of Hera's supreme status.
Satisfied with this sudden gift, Hera planted the golden apple tree in the sacred garden of Hesperides in the west, and arranged for the hundred dragons to be guarded by the Hesperides sisters.
Among the gods of Olympus, Hera was hailed"Jealous woman", but she was respected by everyone, even the god-king Zeus. As the queen, Hera was able to share the power of Zeus, holding a scepter, wearing a crown, accompanied by a goddess, accompanied by thunder and lightning when traveling, and extremely majestic.
Hera and Zeus, the two seem to be in love, but Hera is not happy because she has been facing a challenger to authority, and that person is her husband Zeus. He frequently had trysts with his lover behind her back, and even had a few illegitimate children from time to time.
Hera gradually developed from being suspicious and jealous at the beginning to using her power and position to directly ** her rivals. Among them, Hera's rival number one is her cousin Leto, and despite Leto being Zeus's sixth wife and marrying him before Hera, Hera is still jealous of Leto, who is about to give birth to an heir for Zeus.
Hera prevented Leto from giving birth on the earth and ordered the gods of the earth to forbid helping Leto, causing Leto to hide in pain on the earth with no place to live.
In addition, Hera also sent the giant serpentskin born to Gaia, the mother of the earth, to pursue him, and Leto was about to be cornered. Eventually, at the behest of Zeus, Poseidon stepped in to defeat the serpent and raise an island, allowing Leto to give birth to twins of the moon god Artemis and the sun god Apollo.
Hera was watching Zeus on Mount Olympus and discovered that he was having a private meeting with the mortal princess Io. However, when she arrives at the scene, Io has been turned into a snow-white heifer by the weak-hearted Zeus.
This is a ** against Leto and his dragon and phoenix fetuses.
Hera's wit saw through the cowherd's tricks, and she superficially praised the cowherd's gift, the cow, for its outstanding appearance, and asked Zeus to keep it for herself. In desperation, Zeus had no choice but to temporarily agree to Hera's request.
In order to completely eradicate her rival, Hera planned to make the Cowherd forever turn into a heifer and be tortured.
In order to prevent Zeus from taking away Io, who had turned into a cow, Hera sent Argos, a hundred-eyed giant, to guard him day and night. Despite this, Zeus took action, ordering his youngest son, Hermes, to save his lover.
Hera's plan of revenge: Weak humans could not bear the true body of God, so God often incarnated as humans or animals to associate with humans. Zeus once became ** and fell in love with Semele and impregnated her.
When Hera learned of this, she disguised herself as Semele's servant and encouraged her to ask Zeus to prove his love loyalty in his true form.
When Semele was burned to death, she turned to Zeus for help. Hera, however, used a poison trick to make Semele understand her danger. Despite Zeus's painstaking persuasion not to continue, the persistent Semele could not stop.
When Zeus revealed his true body holding a thunderbolt artifact, a powerful thunderbolt instantly burned Semele to death. Fortunately, Zeus took his unborn son from her abdomen in time and sewed her on his thigh until her son was born when he was born, which became Dionysus, the god of wine.
Camea, the daughter of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and the queen of Libya, attracted the attention of Zeus because of her beautiful appearance, and the two fornicated and had a son. However, this affair was discovered by Hera, who angrily took away all of Lamia's children and killed them, turning the heartbroken Lamia into a monster who was half human and half snake.
Tortured by Hera's spell, Lamia would fall into madness whenever she thought of her children, and went around killing them in a frenzy.
The goddess Lamia, in addition to being the lover of Zeus, was also the object of the wrath of the goddess Hera. The goddess Hera was often angry with Zeus because of the illegitimate children they had born.
Among them, the most famous is Hercules, the great hero of mankind who Zeus had high hopes for. For this child, the goddess Hera did not give a good face.
She first used a conspiracy to sabotage Hercules' succession to the throne. Immediately after Hercules was born, the goddess Hera sent two poisonous snakes to assassinate him. Although, Hercules, who was born with divine powers, easily solved them.
But under the ongoing machinations of the goddess Hera, the great hero is eventually driven insane and kills his wife and children while unconscious.
Disheartened by her husband's infidelity, Hera decided to take action to revolt. Hera united with Poseidon, the god of the sea, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and Apollo, the god of light, to plot to overthrow the rule of Zeus.
While Zeus was asleep, they tied him tightly with a cowhide rope so that he could not move. However, when Zeus lost his divine powers, Hera began to argue with Poseidon and Apollo about the succession of divine power.
Hera rebelled, shocking Thetis, the goddess of the sea. In order to save Zeus, the goddess summoned the hundred-armed giant Briaryos and defeated Hera. Enraged, Zeus cuffed Hera's wrists with a gold bracelet and hung her in the air, warning the gods of the tragic fate of rebelling against him.
Hera vowed not to betray Zeus and appeased her husband's anger. On another occasion, Hera had an argument with Zeus, and the question was over which man and woman got more pleasure during intercourse.
Zeus thinks it's a woman, but Hera thinks the opposite, believing that's why Zeus cheated. In the end, it was decided to find someone who had a voice, and that was Teresias, who had been a man and a woman and had been married for seven years.
In the story of Teresias, he once gave an answer to the pleasure distribution that made Hera angry. This answer turns Hera into a vengeance, but it also shows her devotion to her husband.
From this point of view, Hera is not only a representative of the victim, but also a unique female character. If you like myths like this, you might as well follow and I will continue to share more legendary stories.
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