{"id":3246,"date":"2010-02-01T01:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T06:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2010-02-01T15:30:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T20:30:30","slug":"gems-of-the-goddess-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2010\/02\/01\/gems-of-the-goddess-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Gems of the Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hera<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hera was the Greek Goddess of Love and Marriage (also known as \u201cJuno\u201d in the Roman pantheon).\u00a0 She was the wife of Zeus and the Queen of the Olympians.\u00a0 She was also considered the Goddess of the Sky and the Starry Heavens.<\/p>\n

Hera was usually depicted with a crown on her head and holding a staff with a lotus tip.\u00a0 She is also seen holding a hawk or a cuckoo bird.<\/p>\n

She is considered to embody the Triple Goddess \u2013 Maiden, Mother and Crone.<\/p>\n

Hera as Maiden was unmarried and virginal.\u00a0 She then was married to Zeus, after being raped by him when he tricked her by posing as a cuckoo bird to get closer to her.\u00a0 As time went on, Hera became a jealous spiteful person because Zeus was cheating on her.\u00a0 On the outside, Hera showed herself as the loving wife and mother \u2013 everything in the marriage was perfect.\u00a0 But on the inside, Hera was jealous.\u00a0 In private, Hera made Zeus’s consorts pay.\u00a0 As time went on, Hera got tired of chasing around Zeus’s consorts.\u00a0 She was getting older and decided to live her life out with being in solitude.\u00a0 This was the crone aspect.<\/p>\n

Hera’s sacred animals are the peacock (pride) and the cow.\u00a0 Many pictures will show her with peacocks or peacock feathers.\u00a0 The crow and the pomegranate (symbol of marriage) were dedicated to her.<\/p>\n

Hera reminds us that we must age gracefully.\u00a0 As we grow older, we grow wiser from our experiences.\u00a0 Hera has been described as a bitter woman but her experiences brought her to protect herself because of the betrayal by Zeus.\u00a0 She also lived in a loveless marriage but she still managed to stay strong.\u00a0 Hera is telling us no matter what we are presented with, it\u2019s important to stay loyal to our commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hera Hera was the Greek Goddess of Love and Marriage (also known as \u201cJuno\u201d in the Roman pantheon).\u00a0 She was the wife of Zeus and the Queen of the Olympians.\u00a0 She was also considered the Goddess of the Sky and the Starry Heavens. Hera was usually depicted with a crown on her head and holding a staff with a lotus tip.\u00a0 She is also seen holding a hawk or a cuckoo bird. She is considered to embody the Triple Goddess \u2013 Maiden, Mother and Crone. Hera as Maiden was unmarried and virginal.\u00a0 She then was married to Zeus, after being raped by him when he tricked her by posing as a cuckoo bird to get closer to her.\u00a0 As time went on, Hera became a jealous spiteful person because Zeus was cheating on her.\u00a0 On the outside, Hera showed herself as the loving wife and mother \u2013 everything in the marriage was perfect.\u00a0 But on the inside, Hera was jealous.\u00a0 In private, Hera made Zeus’s consorts pay.\u00a0 As time went on, Hera got tired of chasing around Zeus’s consorts.\u00a0 She was getting older and decided to live her life out with being in solitude.\u00a0 This was the crone aspect. Hera’s sacred animals are the peacock (pride) and the cow.\u00a0 Many pictures will show her with peacocks or peacock feathers.\u00a0 The crow and the pomegranate (symbol of marriage) were dedicated to her. Hera reminds us that we must age gracefully.\u00a0 As we grow older, we grow wiser from our experiences.\u00a0 Hera has been described as a bitter woman but her experiences brought her to protect herself because of the betrayal by Zeus.\u00a0 She also lived in a loveless marriage but she still managed to stay strong.\u00a0 Hera is telling us no matter what we are presented with, it\u2019s important to stay loyal to our commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}