Hera

Siblings: The Olympians

**Hera** is the sister-wife of Zeus and the Queen of the Dodekatheon worshiped by the ancient Greeks.

## Overview

Hera is the youngest daughter of Rhea and Cronus and the goddess of women and marriage. Her sacred animals are the cow, the lion, and the peacock. Hera is in charge of the proper arrangements of marriage. Together with Zeus, she conceived many children; Ares, the god of war, Hebe, the goddess of youth and the former cupbearer of the gods, and Hepheastus.

## Appearance

Hera is often depicted as a majestic and solemn woman on a throne, with a polos atop her head. She sometimes holds a pomegranate in her hand.

## Personality

Hera is infamous for not only being jealous against Zeus’s lovers and illegitimate children, but also mortals who crossed her, such as Pelias and Paris. She also holds a rather great contempt and hatred towards Zeus to some degree, mainly because of his husband's infidelity, boastful arrogance, firm, and cruel rulership.

Although not been shown for most of the time, she still respects and loves Zeus, for his heroism, sense of justice and responsibility. She co-rules Olympus to maintain it's prosperity and peace, and would resort's to violence if Olympus were to be threatened. She is still loyal and loving towards Zeus, to the point that every year she always maintain her beauty, elegance, maturity, and virginity (every year).

During the ancient times of Greece, she is shown to be quiet vindictive towards Zeus' mistresses and demigod children, but as time passes, she is shown to be accepting towards his other children. Examples are: Artemis, Apollo, Hermes, Athena, Perseus, Heracles, and many others. It also revealed that the reason why she married Zeus, is because she is the only goddess, strong and fierce enough to co-rule's Olympus along with Zeus to maintain it's power.

She is not accepting towards Zeus brash or nonsense reasons of killing or imprisoning Zeus' other wives and children. Her hate toward's Zeus' other wives and children are only a facade, to show her support to him. But in reality, she is secretly helping them along with the other gods and goddesses that does not agrees with her husband's methods, showing a motherly and benevolent side. For most of the time, she is shown to be stern and serious to some degree, but can be warm, loving, and compassionate towards the weak and earn her respect. She acts as a mother towards the younger gods, goddesses, demigods, and demigoddesses. She teach them how to act responsible and mature of handling things with a careful manner.

Being the patron goddess of motherhood and wedding, she is a protector of sacred marriage and it's good name. As she hates immoral affairs, infidelity, and sexual immorality. She is also one of the pagan deities to recognize that other than her protogenoi parents, there is still a Supreme Being that is an all-powerful enough to rule them, it also revealed that she learned from Yesh her embodiment's true role and purpose, and that is to protect women in general and the sacredness of wedding.

## Powers and Abilities

**Air Deity:** Hera with this ability either is or can transform into an air deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with the air, the winds and the clouds. An air deity is a deity in mythology associated with air.

**Family Deity:** Hera with this ability either is or can transform into a Family Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with family, relatives, ancestors, descendants, and clans. Family Deities were common in mythology and are still present among the civilizations that worshiped their ancestors thus achieving a god-like status. Even regular deities themselves could connect to their deceased human family members that they began on Earth.

**Femininity Deity:** Hera with this ability either is or can transform into a Femininity Deity, a goddess who represents or is associated with femininity, women and womanhood. Femininity deities weren't common in mythology but were very present among the civilizations they were worshiped in.

**Mother Goddess:** As an archetype, the mother goddess, a goddess entity/figure who represents, or is the personification of, nature, motherhood, fertility, creation, destruction; or, who embodies the bounty of the Earth. Such figures are often times the literal mothers of the majority of younger generations of of gods and goddesses in the pantheon they are from.

**Fertility Deity:** As an archetype of a Fertility Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with fertility, virility, sex, sexual health, reproduction, procreation, pregnancy, birth, nature, vegetation and crops. Fertility deities are common in mythology and were important among ancient and current civilizations. In most cases these deities are directly associated with these experiences.

**Heaven Deity:** Hera with this ability either is or can transform into a Heaven Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with Heaven, the Aether and the skies. Heaven Deities were and still are common in mythology and considered very powerful among deities. Heaven has had many names depending on culture.

**Marriage Deity:** Hera with this ability either is or can transform into a Marriage Deity, a god/goddess in mythology who represents or is associated with marriage, weddings, love and unions between couples.

**National Deity:** Hera with this ability either is or can transform into a national deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with ethnic groups, nations, kingdoms, empires and their leaders. National deities were common in mythology and were important among the civilizations.

**Summer Deity:** Hera with this ability either is or can transform into a summer deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with summer, warm weather, vacation, and the warmth/brightness of the sun.

**Triple Deity:** As the archetype of a triple deity; they are three gods/goddesses who together represent a three-fold concept. Sometimes referred to as "threefold, tripled, triplicate, tripartite, triune or triadic, or as a trinity" are three separate deities or three “in one” acting together to gain higher powers and representing a divine trinity force.

**Absolute Speed:** Hera possesses a level of speed at a maximum and limitless level, transcending the logical limits and boundaries of speed as a concept. They are beyond and qualitatively superior to all concepts of speed and the dimensions of time and space and are capable of performing movement beyond infinite dimensions of time due to transcending the very concepts of movement itself.

**Animal Companionship:** Hera can form a sacred and powerful union between herself and animal companions, and they both tend to protect and care for one another and assist each other in multiple situations. Hera can also share an empowering friendship so that they draw strength from and granting them the power to achieve anything and overcome potential obstacle in their way. The bond they have with their animals is purely sacred because of the pure love they have for one another and use it to synchronize each other and gain a variety of powers they use for themselves.

**Animal Manipulation:** Hera can create, shape and manipulate animals, multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. They can command, speak/understand, evolve/devolve, merge with, possess, etc., with all forms of animal life. Weaker users can only influence their behavior, commanding them to do their bidding.

**Blessing Inducement:** Hera can bless anything including people, places, objects etc. and produce positive effects and phenomenon. This can include bringing good luck to people, or something as little as Emotion Augmentation as long as it is the happy emotions.

**Companion Allegiance:** Hera with this power is able to form a sacred and powerful union between herself and companion, and they can fight with a harmonized flow of energy. Hera can also just rely on their companion to fight, or they can transfer their own energies to their companion to give them energy boosts. In some cases, if Hera is in danger, there can be a fusion between herself and her companion to achieve a more powerful form.

**Curse Manipulation:** Hera can create, shape, move, control, interact and change curses, any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object. They might also be able to manifest curses or the cursed as energy or a force to achieve various effects. They can effectively curse anything they wish and might be able to exert power over things that have been cursed.

**Divine Object:** Hera has access to an object that grants them divine/holy powers. They can range from source materials to apparel to fully-designed weapons; whatever the form, they can impart divine powers to those who lack them entirely or augment the already existing holy capabilities.

**Enhanced Charisma:** Hera has unnaturally high charisma, or charm, enabling them to gain the trust and loyalty of others and win them over to their cause.

**Monster Manipulation:** Hera can create, shape, and manipulate and destroy monsters.

**Oath Keeping:** Hera with this ability is able to maintain and preserve any sort of oath or pact that was made between two or more individuals. This makes Hera have higher authority between those who makes the oaths or those who accepts them.

**Olympus Lordship:** Hera has authority and duty in their mythical realm (Asgard, Olympus, etc.), capable of controlling every deity and possessing amazing powers beyond theirs. They possess authority not just over deities but monsters, other creatures and possibly everything in existence.

## History

Out of jealousy of Zeus giving birth to Athena without her, Hera gave birth to Hephaestus without Zeus’s help. However, as he did not possess the typical attractiveness of a god, she threw him from Mount Olympus.

Hera was enraged with her husband’s infidelity and wasted no time in taking revenge against his lovers. One of Hera’s victims was the titaness Leto, who was cursed to be unable to give birth on any land. When Leto went to Delos to give birth to Apollo and Artemis, Hera forbade her daughter Eileithyia to allow Leto to give birth for another nine months. Semele was another one of Hera’s victims. She was tricked by the goddess into convincing Zeus to show his true form, which resulted in her being reduced to ashes. Callisto was another example of Hera’s wrath. She was turned into a bear and hunted by the goddess Artemis but was pitied by Zeus, who turned her into the constellation Ursa Major.

Hera was also the enemy of Heracles, one of the greatest Greek heroes. When he was lying in his cot, she sent two serpents to kill him but the demigod throttled both of them with his bare hands. When he reached adulthood, she forced him to descend into madness and kill his own family. Later, Hera did everything in her power to make his Twelve Labors as difficult as possible.

## Trivia

* Theologians have equated Hera with Uni.