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Hera then sent the giant Tityos to kill Leto.
Hera wakes up while breastfeeding and then realizes she is nursing an unknown baby: she pushes the baby away and a jet of her milk sprays the night sky, producing the faint band of light known as the Milky Way.
Hera was then disgusted with Hephaestus ' ugliness and threw him from Mount Olympus.
Hera then sent a flood which raised the water level of a river so much that Heracles could not ford the river with the cattle.
The other gods bribed Hera with a beautiful necklace nobody could resist and then finally gave in.
Hera then sent a gadfly ( Greek oistros, compare oestrus )) to sting Io as she wandered the earth.
Heifer Io was loosed to roam the world, stung by a maddening gadfly sent by Hera, and wandered to Egypt, thus placing her descendant Belus in Egypt ; his sons Cadmus and Danaus would then " return " to mainland Greece.
Hera then forced Io to wander the earth without rest, plagued by a gadfly ( Οίστρος or oestrus: see etymology of " estrus " ) to sting her into madness.
But then ( according to Apollodorus ) the goddess Hera, making herself appear as one of the Amazons, spread a rumor among them that Heracles and his crew were actually abducting their queen.
Poseidon and Hera had vied for the land: when the primeval waters had receded, Phoroneus " was the first to gather the people together into a community ; for they had up to then been living as scattered and lonesome families ".
He was then concealed by the Curetes, by the request of Hera, but Io sought and afterward found him in Syria.
Hera then sent a flood which raised the level of a river so much, Heracles could not cross with the cattle.
Diomedes then slays a number of Trojan warriors including Phegeus ( whose brother was spirited away by Hera ’ s son before being slain by Diomedes ) until Pandarus wounds him with an arrow.
He would then sacrifice, by day, to a series of gods, including Cronus, Apollo, Zeus the king, Hera the Charioteer, and Demeter-Europa.
The Olympic flame of the modern-day Olympic Games is lit by reflection of sunlight in a parabolic mirror in front of the Temple of Hera and then transported by a torch to the place where the games are held.
Prometheus is then visited by Io, a human maiden pursued by a lustful Zeus ; the Olympian transformed Io into a cow, and a gadfly sent by Zeus's wife Hera has chased Io all the way from Argos.
Hera, Zeus ' wife, learned of his affair with Lamia, and then forced Zeus to give up the relationship and punished Lamia by forcing her to eat her own children.
Their characteristic cult of the Palici is influenced by Greek myth in the version that has survived, in which the local nymph Talia bore to Adranus, the volcanic god whom the Greeks identified with Hephaestus, twin sons, who were " twice-born ( palin " again "; ikein " to come "), born first of their nymph mother, and then of the earth, because of the " jealousy " of Hera, who urged Mother Earth, Gaia, to swallow up the nymph.
The dispute that then arose between the goddesses Hera, Aphrodite and Athene resulted in events leading to the Trojan War.
The better known lost-wax produced items from the classical world include the “ Praying Boy ” c. 300 BC ( in the Berlin Museum ), the statue of Hera from Vulci ( Etruria ), which, like most statues, were cast in several parts and then joined together.
Zeus, Hera, and Ares then appear amongst Amatsu-Mikaboshi's slave gods, whereupon Zeus quickly knocks Galactus to the ground through a massive thunderbolt and physical attacks.
Caprica subsequently disables and then kills Boomer who threatens to throttle Hera despite Athena's anguished pleas.
Hera then sent a flood which raised the level of a river so much, Heracles could not cross with the cattle.
In a fragment of a chronological work of Hellanicus called " Priestesses of Hera at Argos ", and preserved by Stephanus, Makedon is son of Aeolus, as Hellanicus relates in the first ( book or archive list ) of his " Hiereiai tes Heras en Argei ", and of Makedon, the son of Aeolus, the present Macedonians were named so, then living alone with the Mysians .< ref > The fragment does not clarify who of the three Aeoli is Makedon's father but Eustathius reported him as one of the ten sons of Aeolus, thus the son of Hellen.

Hera and Semele
When Hera learned that Semele, daughter of Cadmus King of Thebes, was pregnant by Zeus, she disguised herself as Semele's nurse and persuaded the princess to insist that Zeus show himself to her in his true form.
Another variation is when Hera persuades Semele to force Zeus to show himself in his real form.
Hera tricked Semele into asking Zeus to show his true form, which killed her.
Zeus ' wife, Hera, a goddess jealous of usurpers, discovered his affair with Semele when she later became pregnant.
Appearing as an old crone, Hera befriended Semele, who confided in her that her lover was actually Zeus.
Hera, angry at her husband Zeus ' betrayal, convinces Semele to ask Zeus to appear to her in his true form.
In the more familiar variant, Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, sister of Semele, and queen of Athamas, became a goddess after Hera drove her insane as a punishment for caring for the newborn Dionysus.
Envy tells Hera of the deed and she disguises herself and tricks Semele into asking to see Zeus lightning.
As Dionysus matures, Semele taunts Hera who drives Ino mad.

Hera and Zeus
As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.
Thetis, although a daughter of the sea-god Nereus, was also brought up by Hera, further explaining her resistance to the advances of Zeus.
When Zeus ' wife Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Zeus was the father, she banned Leto from giving birth on " terra firma ".
Hera, after requesting Zeus to swear an oath to that effect, descended from Olympus to Argos and made the wife of Sthenelus ( a son of Perseus ) give birth to Eurystheus after only seven months, while at the same time preventing Alcmene from delivering Heracles.
He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera.
Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.
Hera was angry with Zeus, her husband, because he had impregnated Leto.
72 accounts for the island's archaic name Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail ( ortux ) in order to prevent Hera from finding out his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeish suggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as few birth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg.
The Iliad reduced the figure of the dread goddess to that of a girl, who, having been thrashed by Hera, climbs weeping into the lap of Zeus.
Ancient and modern opinions differ as to whether he identified air by the divine name Hera, Aidoneus or even Zeus.
Either Artemis " slew Kallisto with a shot of her silver bow ," perhaps urged by the wrath of Juno ( Hera ) or later Arcas, the eponym of Arcadia, nearly killed his bear-mother, when she had wandered into the forbidden precinct of Zeus.
The other Strife is presumably she who appears in Homer's Iliad Book IV ; equated with Enyo as sister of Ares and so presumably daughter of Zeus and Hera:
They claimed to love each other more than Hera and Zeus were in love.
In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles — though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried " Hera's fame " — was the candidate of Zeus.
When, shortly before his son Heracles was born, Zeus proclaimed the next-born descendant of Perseus should get the kingdom, Hera thwarted his ambitions by delaying Alcmene's labour and having her candidate Eurystheus born prematurely.
Hera (; Greek, Hēra, equivalently, Hērē, in Ionic and Homer ) was the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion.
According to the Homeric Hymn III to Delian Apollo, Hera detained Eileithyia to already prevent Leto from going into labor with Artemis and Apollo, since the father was Zeus.
In the Temple of Hera at Olympia, Hera's seated cult figure was older than the warrior figure of Zeus that accompanied it.
" Though Zeus is often called Zeus Heraios ' Zeus, ( consort ) of Hera ', Homer's treatment of Hera is less than respectful, and in late anecdotal versions of the myths ( see below ) she appeared to spend most of her time plotting revenge on the nymphs seduced by her Consort, for Hera upheld all the old right rules of Hellene society and sorority.

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