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So we don’t know much about Imbrasos other than:

1. He is a guy that exists

2. Hera was born by his River (which implies that Rhea trusted or at least knew him)

3. His wife’s name is Chesias, and she’s hot af.

4. His daughter Ocyrhoe was kidnapped by Apollo and her fate is unknown (Tho I’d like to imagine she escaped).

This means I get tons of creative freedom designing and writing him. Also this Samian coin makes him look like he has a dad bod lol

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So I’ve been researching Imbrasos since Hera was born by his River and came across this myth:

It makes me so sad I hope Imbrasos or even Hera or Artemis (highly unlikely) rescued her, and considering that no source mentions any children of Ocyrhoe, maybe she was rescued. I mean Marpessa and Sinope managed to. But one can only hope.

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Imbrasos would wear this

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Can you please tell me the source for hera being born on the banks of imbrasos? Did you find anything more about hera and imbrasos? I was thinking, since she was raised by oceanus and tethys, him taking new born hera to them would be a cute idea.

And gosh I feel bad for ocyrhoe! Since it's apollo, there's a bit of hope that she ended up not getting violated given how he has for some reason a surprising number of myths where he actually steps back (cassandra, bolina and cumaean sibyl too, along with marpessa).

It’s… the only source sited in his Theoi page lol

Also in my retelling he is the one to find and convince Rhea to take Hera to his parents (since at that point Rhea and Tethys weren’t on good terms.

Also idk if I’d use Cassandra as an example of a woman escaping Apollo unscathed lmao

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Can I be Chesias? I’d like to marry Imbrasos please.

Your name is Chesias now, have fun with your new husband!

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„One companion significant by his absence is Zeus. He never appears among Hera’s companions on the coins, nor is the goddess ever pictured as being carried by him, as is Artemis of Ephesus on some Ephesian coins. On the Samian coin images, Hera is occasionally carried by Tyche but never by Zeus. This absence is striking testimony that even in imperial times Zeus was not mythically prominent in the Samian Heraion. When he does appear on Samian coins, it is with Poseidon, not Hera. By contrast, the river god Imbrasos is present on many Samian coins, with Hera’s peacock and a cornucopia, hence as a fertility god. The numismatic evidence coupled with Hera’s title Imbrasié (Apollonius Rhodius 1.187), her legendary birth at the banks of the Imbrasos, and her binding to her tree by lugos branches there suggest the local river god may have been understood as her early Samian spouse.”

- The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad by Joan V. O'Brien

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