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- Hera is the Olympian queen of the gods and goddesses of women and marriage.
- Hera was also a goddess of sky and starry heavens.
- Hera was described as a beautiful woman wearing a crown and holding a royal, lotus tipped staff.
- Sometimes she held a royal lion or had a cuckoo or hawk as her familiar
- Her marriage to Zeus- Hera grew up to be the most beautiful of the goddesses and Zeus made her his bride. As a wedding present, Gaia created for her the famed garden of golden apples, which the Hesperides and the Draken Ladon were set to guard.
- Hera's parents were Kronos and Rhea
- Being a daughter of Kronos, she, like his other children, was swallowed by her father, but afterwards released and, according to an Arcadian tradition, she was brought up by Temenus, the son of Pelasgus.
*Heritage*
*Myths*
*Hera*
(atsma)