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In 570, Antonius Placentius said that in the valleys of Mount Sinai there was a monastery in which the monks spoke Greek, Latin, Syriac, Egyptian and Bessian. The origin of the monasteries is explained in a mediaeval hagiography written by Simeon Metaphrastes, in Vita Sancti Theodosii Coenobiarchae in which he wrote that Saint Theodorius founded on the shore of the Dead Sea a monastery with four churches, in each being spoken a different language, among which Bessan was found. The place where the monasteries were founde ...

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In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hêra (World Book «HIHR uh») (Greek Ἥρα or Ἥρη) was the wife and sister of Zeus. She also presided as goddess of marriage, the patriarchal bond of her own subordination. (Slater 1968) Hera is portrayed as being majestic and solemn, often enthroned and crowned with the polos, the high cylindrical crown worn by several of the Great Goddesse ...

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• Hera - Etymology and Pre-History
• Hera - Cult
• Hera - Hera and children
• Hera - Hera the nemesis of Heracles
• Hera - Hera's jealousies
• Hera - Echo
• Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo
• Hera - Callisto/Arcas
• Hera - Semele/Dionysus
• Hera - Io
• Hera - Lamia
• Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera
• Hera - Cydippe
• Hera - Tiresias
• Hera - Chelone
• Hera - The Iliad
• Hera - The Golden Fleece
• Hera - The Metamorphoses
• Hera - Hera in Neopaganism

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Hera was especially worshipped, as "Argive Hera" (Hera Argeia), at her sanctuary that stood between the former Mycenaean city-states of Argos and Mycenae, where the festivals in her honor called Heraia were celebrated. "The three cities I love best," the ox-eyed Queen of Heaven declares (Iliad, book iv) "are Argos, Sparta and Mycenae of the broad streets." Her other main center of cult was at Samos. There were also temples to Hera in Olympia, Corinth, Tiryns, Perachora and the sacred island of Delos. In Magna Graecia, the temple long called the Temple of Poseidon among the group at Paestum was identified in the 1950s as a ...

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Hera, Hera - Etymology and Pre-History, Hera - Cult, Hera - Hera and children, Hera - Hera the nemesis of Heracles, Hera - Hera's jealousies, Hera - Echo, Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo, Hera - Callisto/Arcas, Hera - Semele/Dionysus, Hera - Io, Hera - Lamia, Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera, Hera - Cydippe, Hera - Tiresias, Hera - Chelone, Hera - The Iliad, Hera - The Golden Fleece, Hera - The Metamorphoses, Hera - Hera in Neopaganism

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Hera liked to eat cows. Hera presides over the right arrangements of the marriage and is the archetype of the union in the marriage bed, but she is not notable as a mother. The legitimate offspring of her union with Zeus is Ares, Hebe (the goddess of youth), Eris (the goddess of discord) and Eileithyia (goddess of childbirth). Hera was jealous of Zeus' giving birth to Athena without recourse to her (actually with Metis), so she gave birth to Hephaestus without him. (An alternate version discounts this and says Zeus and Hera were both parents ...

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Hera, Hera - Etymology and Pre-History, Hera - Cult, Hera - Hera and children, Hera - Hera the nemesis of Heracles, Hera - Hera's jealousies, Hera - Echo, Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo, Hera - Callisto/Arcas, Hera - Semele/Dionysus, Hera - Io, Hera - Lamia, Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera, Hera - Cydippe, Hera - Tiresias, Hera - Chelone, Hera - The Iliad, Hera - The Golden Fleece, Hera - The Metamorphoses, Hera - Hera in Neopaganism

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Hera - Cydippe. Cydippe, a priestess of Hera, was on her way to a festival in the goddess' honor. The oxen which was to pull her cart were overdue and her sons, Biton and Cleobis pulled the cart the entire way (45 stadia, 8 kilometers). Cydippe was impressed with their devotion to her and her goddess and asked Hera to give her children the best gift a god could give a person. Hera ...

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Hera, Hera - Etymology and Pre-History, Hera - Cult, Hera - Hera and children, Hera - Hera the nemesis of Heracles, Hera - Hera's jealousies, Hera - Echo, Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo, Hera - Callisto/Arcas, Hera - Semele/Dionysus, Hera - Io, Hera - Lamia, Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera, Hera - Cydippe, Hera - Tiresias, Hera - Chelone, Hera - The Iliad, Hera - The Golden Fleece, Hera - The Metamorphoses, Hera - Hera in Neopaganism

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Unlike some Greek gods, such as Zeus and Poseidon, Hera's name is not analyzable as a Greek or Indo-European word. She therefore seems to be a survival of a pre-Greek "great goddess" figure - perhaps one of the powerful female divinities of the Minoan pantheon, or of some unidentified pre-Greek ("Pelasgian") people. Hera's importance in the early archaic period is attested by the large building projects undertaken in her honor. The temples of Hera in the two main centers of her cult, at Samos and in the Argolid, were the very earliest monumental ...

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Hera, Hera - Etymology and Pre-History, Hera - Cult, Hera - Hera and children, Hera - Hera the nemesis of Heracles, Hera - Hera's jealousies, Hera - Echo, Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo, Hera - Callisto/Arcas, Hera - Semele/Dionysus, Hera - Io, Hera - Lamia, Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera, Hera - Cydippe, Hera - Tiresias, Hera - Chelone, Hera - The Iliad, Hera - The Golden Fleece, Hera - The Metamorphoses, Hera - Hera in Neopaganism

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Hera was the enemy of Heracles, the hero who, more than even Perseus, Cadmus or Theseus, introduced the Olympian ways in Greece (Ruck and Staples 1994). When Alcmene was pregnant with Heracles, Hera tried to prevent the birth from occurring. She was foiled by Galanthis, her servant, who told Hera that she had already delivered the baby. Hera turned her into a weasel. While Heracles was still an infant, Hera sent two serpents, to kill him as he lay in his cot, the mythographers interpreted the event. Heracles throttled a single snake i ...

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Hera, Hera - Etymology and Pre-History, Hera - Cult, Hera - Hera and children, Hera - Hera the nemesis of Heracles, Hera - Hera's jealousies, Hera - Echo, Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo, Hera - Callisto/Arcas, Hera - Semele/Dionysus, Hera - Io, Hera - Lamia, Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera, Hera - Cydippe, Hera - Tiresias, Hera - Chelone, Hera - The Iliad, Hera - The Golden Fleece, Hera - The Metamorphoses, Hera - Hera in Neopaganism

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Hera - Echo. For a time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus' affairs by incessantly talking. When Hera discovered the deception, she cursed Echo to only speak the words of others (hence our modern word "echo"). Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo. When Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Hera's husband, Zeus, was the father, she banned Leto from giving birth on "terra-firma", or the mainland, or any island at sea. She found the floating island o ...

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Hera, Hera - Etymology and Pre-History, Hera - Cult, Hera - Hera and children, Hera - Hera the nemesis of Heracles, Hera - Hera's jealousies, Hera - Echo, Hera - Leto and Artemis/Apollo, Hera - Callisto/Arcas, Hera - Semele/Dionysus, Hera - Io, Hera - Lamia, Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera, Hera - Cydippe, Hera - Tiresias, Hera - Chelone, Hera - The Iliad, Hera - The Golden Fleece, Hera - The Metamorphoses, Hera - Hera in Neopaganism

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