Blessed Hera, Queen of Heaven

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Where my Hera devotees at?

Hey guys, I’m feeling pulled to Hera and want to get to know her more. That involves filling my dash with some devotion! Please reblog if you:

Are a Hellenic Polytheist

Worship Hera

Have a Hellenic shrine of any kind

Are a Hellenic witch

Aren’t a TERF, pedo, misogynist, bigot, or anything else shady like that

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‘Peacock’, from January by Theo van Hoytema (1910).

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Hera’s God Card from the SMITE Website

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BIIITTCCHH

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Some of the designs I really loved doing for Rick Riordan’s website! I feel like I had another splurge of improvement happen fairly recently, and I’m having so much fun with these (and other) portraits:”)

You probably have seen it already, but hey, it won’t hurt having them in a good quality here:D

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Portrait Bust of a Woman (detail), Roman, Antonine Period, 140-150 AD

Photo by Erika Dufour

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mythological figures [ 1 / ? ]

hera ; goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, family, and is queen of the gods. she is known for her jealously towards those who had an affair with zeus and the children they had.

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why the fuck is no one naming their children after greek goddesses? Name your fucking child Persephone?????? Bitch???????!?

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If that makes you happy, my name is Demeter

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In my experience, people named after Greek goddesses are some of the most ethereal, chaotic forces I have ever encountered. Our Art Department’s nude model, for example, is a woman named Hera. She’s stunningly beautiful, rides a motorcycle as apparently her only vehicle, grows all her own food, and keeps bees, turtles, and a dog named Argus, who she walks around town with a peacock feather attached to his leash. I am thoroughly convinced she is not of this realm.

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I’m pretty sure you just met Hera.

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Thank you, Zeus, friend of humankind, for being with us and filling our hearts with a desire for justice.

Thank you, Hera, for teaching us the value of family and devotion.

Thank you, Posideon, for shaking up our world and for any protection you provide to migrants as they travel by sea.

Thank you, Demeter, for showing us how to grow.

Thank you, Athena, born of Zeus’s mind, for providing us with wisdom.

Thank you, Apollo, for lighting the way and warming our hearts.

Thank you, Artemis, for teaching us about agency.

Thank you, Ares, for filling us with passion and fire.

Thank you, Aphrodite, for revealing to us the importance of loving ourselves and others.

Thank you, Hephaestus, for showing us that we are all capable of creating greatness.

Thank you, Hermes, for helping us define our boundaries and push ourselves out of our comfort zones.

Thank you, Hestia, for teaching us how to welcome others into our homes and the value of community.

Thank you, Dionysus, for freeing us from our fears.

Thank you, Hades, for teaching us to accept all.

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Aphrodite loves trans men, trans women, and nonbinary people pass it on

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Reblog if

You are transgender AND a Hellenic polytheist

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“στον πούτσο μου λουλούδια και γύρω-γύρω μέλισσες” 

Hey friends, the next time someone says “u cant ship hades and persephone cuz stockholm syndrome he rapist waah” or anything stupid, you gotta share this Hades which says “on my dick flowers and all around bees” aka “I don’t give a fuck” in Greek :,)

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The Ox-eyed Queen Hera / へーラー女神さま

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Hera, Goddess of Marriage and Queen of Olympus.

! Please do not repost my work, thank you !

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Shenanigans at Mount Olympus

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Thats what happened in canon.

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Depends on the canon.  There are versions where Hephaestus was born to Hera alone, similar to how Zeus “gave birth” to Athena.  Then when Hephaestus tried to protect Hera from Zeus’s advance, the skygod hurled him off of Olympus

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I think it’s pretty striking that the version where Zeus throws Hephaestus not only makes more sense considering Hera’s traditional traits, it is also not the Athenian version.  It is part of the Spartan mythology, as Sparta had a much more favorable view on Hera (who had a very good relationship with their patron gods, Ares and Enyo, as Ares was her son and Enyo was her daughter-in-law).

Like Athens had a pretty vested interest in never showing anyone but like, Athena and Zeus in a positive light.  I have at least 7 separate rants about how the Athenian depictions of Ares and his wife Enyo are just Athenian propaganda against the Spartans because Ares and Enyo embodied a lot of Spartan ideals about masculinity and femininity (particularly devotion to family, which the Athenians did not believe was a man’s job, and respect for women as equals, as the Athenians believed women to be subhuman) and even more striking, Ares and Enyo had married for love, which most Athenians thought was a completely frivolous practice.

Hera has the same demonization in the Athenian canon, because her traditional trait of being jealous, to the Athenians, was unreasonable, because Zeus was a king.  They also believed that her hatred for his actual born out of wedlock children was unreasonable.  Considering other Greek city-states made it very clear that Zeus was abusive towards Ares and Hephaestus, more so than his other children, many of whom he doted on.  I think a pretty telling thing is that Hera got extremely mad at Zeus when Ares demanded Heracles be punished for literally killing his son and Zeus said the basic equivalent of “You’re my least favorite and Heracles is my favorite so no.”  In most versions, i.e. Spartan and non-Athenian states, Zeus’s reasoning is seen as backwards and wrong, Athens sees it as totally fine and reasonable of good Zeus.

I think it’s important to keep in mind that during the time of the Greeks, the Athenians were hated by a large portion of the other Greek city-states because of how rude and capricious they were.

Also side note Nemesis fucking hated Zeus no matter the mythology so I think when the goddess of revenge thinks someone’s a dick it might be a good idea to agree with that.

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