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Hera is usually met as the jealous wife of Zeus, and the sources on this site do not hide that side of her. But the same sources also show a queen of the gods with real power: she sets the Trojan War in motion, sends Jason on his quest, owns the golden apples and is honored at the edge of the flood. In the newer readings she even flies. I gathered her appearances here.
Queen of Olympus
On The Olympian Gods Hera is one of the children Cronus swallows and Zeus later frees with the help of Metis. A genealogy of the gods counts her among the siblings who became the primary deities of the new pantheon. Mount Olympus names her queen of the gods among the twelve Olympians, and Persephone lists Ares, Hebe and Eileithyia as children of Zeus and Hera.
Daughter of the Atlantean kings
Ignatius Donnelly reads the Greek gods as remembered kings of Atlantis. On The Kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks he quotes Plato’s Timaeus on her line:
and from Chronos and Rhea sprung Zeus and Hera, and all those whom we know as their brethren, and others who were their children.
Plato, Timaeus, as quoted by Ignatius Donnelly
High Priest Imhotep of Atlantis and The Alta: The twelve rulers, the Priest Kings and Queens both name Hera among the figures linked to Greece.
Hera and the Trojan War
Mount Ida (Troad) tells how Hera, Athena and Aphrodite asked Paris to judge the fairest, and how Hera offered him power. When the war comes, The Catalogue of Ships shows her winning the gods to her side:
There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Hera has brought them to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans.
Homer, Iliad, Book 2
Jason, Heracles and the golden apples
On The Argonauts and Mount Pelion Hera meets Jason in disguise and sees in him a way to take revenge on Pelias. Herculus has her step in against Heracles when he comes for the belt of Hippolyta. The forbidden fruit explains that the golden apples were a wedding gift from Gaia to Hera, guarded by the Hesperides and the dragon Ladon. On What Is Mount Ossa? the giant Ephialtes woos Hera. On The Cosmic Hunt Myth she turns Callisto into a bear.
A temple at the flood chasm
On The Deluge Legends of Other Nations Donnelly quotes the treatise On the Syrian Goddess about the flood story told at Hierapolis:
Then Deucalion raised an altar, and dedicated a temple to Hera (Atargatis) close to this very chasm.
On the Syrian Goddess, as quoted by Ignatius Donnelly
Flying sandals and a respected goddess
On Angels & Flying Machines in The Bible & Ancient Text Hera ties on sandals like those of Hermes for her journey in the Iliad, read there as a flying device. On Flying machiens of the Gods Athena and Hera use a chariot in battle. On Bashar Twin Flame Bashar answers that Hera was indeed revered as a goddess, with temples to show it.
Related pages
- The Olympian Gods
- Mount Olympus
- A genealogy of the gods
- Mount Ida (Troad)
- The Argonauts and Mount Pelion
- The forbidden fruit
- The Deluge Legends of Other Nations
- The Kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks
For every page I tagged with hera, see the hera tag archive.
