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| User: | __hera_ (435692) Hera: Queen of Heaven
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| Bio: | Myth Basics Deity Name: Hera Other Names: Juno(to the Romans), Queen of Heaven Role/Function: Goddess of Marriage and Childbirth Powers: Playing the long-suffering wife. Controlling weather. Punishing and killing those who offend her. Manipulating. Objects and Familiars: The peacock, the cow, the pomegranate Parents: Cronus and Rhea Siblings: Hades, Zeus, Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia Spouse: Zeus Children: Ares, Eris, Hephaestus, Hebe, Eileithyia Mortal Name: Kate Washington Date of Birth: June 29, 1975 Nationality: American Social Class: Upper Parents: she's been disowned, so they hardly matter now. But they were Clemens and Sophia Washington Siblings: none Past Relationships: none worth mentioning Significant Other/Spouse: her work Children: none Overall Health: Excellent. Education: M.D., PhD Career: Physician (OB/GYN) although she focuses on reproductive research. Aesthetics Height: 5'10 Weight/Build: Slim, but with a woman's curves. She's got more muscle now that ever before. Hair: Long and dark, slightly curly Eyes: dark brown to gold Skin/Other: golden Description: Hera is a mother-goddess. Though she has lost the flush of youth that so many men and gods go gaga over, she is still a strikingly beautiful goddess. She has long, dark hair that curls slightly, clear golden skin, and deep brown eyes. As the years, millennium really, have passed, she has developed a hardness to protect herself from her cheating husband, and a bit of a crease in her brow from anger. But above all, she carries herself as the proud, righteous Queen of the Heavens that she is. Psychological Personality: Hera is many things, and the face of her you get depends on you. The phrase 'what have you done for me lately' sort of sums up her relationships with the other gods and goddesses. Someone who is her worst enemy one day might become her best friend the next. She's fickle, and ruled by her pride. A pride that is constantly pricked by those she feels she should be able to trust and hold dear. Her husband, her siblings, her children, they all seem to take pleasure in hurting her, and so she's tried to distance herself from them. Though she was once capable of great love and devotion, that aspect has long since been pushed under in an attempt to keep from ending what has become a life of suffering as her very sense of self is sliced at by their actions. The goddess of marriage, her own marriage should have been blissfully happy. Instead, it is the source for much of her misery and pain. Extravert/Introvert: I Sensing/Intuition: S Thinking/Feeling: F Judging/Perceiving: J Hobbies and Interests: Destroying the status quo. Strengths: Sticks to her beliefs (even i the face of extreme hardship). Weaknesses: Pride. Relations Friends: Enemies: Romantic Status: as a goddess, she's married and faithful (so far). As a mortal, she's single. Significant Other: none Sexual Preference: at the moment, none. She has yet to meet a man that is worthy, and she isn't attracted to women. Present Interests: see above Past Relationships: none worth mentioning. Likes: Kindness, caring, dedication to family. Dislikes: Self-centered, egotistical, brutish men who think with their cocks. Biographical Myth: Our word galaxy comes from the Greek word gala meaning "mother's milk" . . . legend has it that the Milky Way was formed from the milk spurting from the breasts of the Greek goddess Hera, Queen of Heaven. Where drops fell to earth, fields of lilies sprung forth. In ancient times Hera was revered as being the only one the Greek goddesses who accompanied a woman through every step of her life. The goddess Hera blessed and protected a woman's marriage, bringing her fertility, protecting her children, and helping her find financial security. Hera was, in short, a complete woman, overseeing both private and public affairs. But it was Hera's uncommon beauty that attracted the attention of her future husband, the lusty Zeus, who tricked Hera into taking him to her breast by changing himself into a small, frightened and wounded bird that elicited her pity. Once cradled in Hera's bosom, Zeus changed back into his manly form and tried to take her . . . but she resisted his advances, putting him off until he promised to marry her. The delay only increased his desire for Hera. Unfortunately, the goddess Hera's life was not to remain so enviable. Once the honeymoon was over, Zeus reverted to his earlier "playboy" lifestyle, married or not, compulsively seducing or raping whichever of the Greek goddesses or mortal women caught his wandering eye. His amorous exploits left the regal goddess Hera feeling betrayed and humiliated on numerous occasions. To make matters even worse, Zeus often showed more favor towards the offspring of his illicit liaisons than he did to the children Hera bore him. In Greek mythology Hera, although wounded, remained faithful and steadfast in her loyalty to Zeus, electing instead to vent her fury on "the other women" rather than Zeus himself even though it was usually Zeus who had deceived, seduced or raped the innocent women. At other times, in reaction to his continuing infidelities, the goddess Hera simply withdrew from Zeus and the other Olympian gods and goddesses and wandered around the earth, often in darkness, always eventually ending up back at the home where she'd spend her happy youth. It is unfortunate that it is not the goddess Hera's nurturing or her steadfastness in the face of adversity that are remembered today, but mostly the stories of her jealousy and vindictiveness. Some historians argue that the goddess Hera was unjustly portrayed in the famous stories of Homer, probably because he was himself victimized by a mean and shrewish wife. Hera presides over the right arrangements of the marriage and is the archetype of the union in the marriage bed, but she is not notable as a mother. The legitimate offspring of her union with Zeus are Ares, Hebe, Eris (the goddess of discord) and Eileithyia (goddess of childbirth). Hera was jealous of Zeus' giving birth to Athena without recourse to her (actually with Metis), so she gave birth to Hephaestus without him. Hera was then disgusted with Hephaestus' ugliness and threw him from Mount Olympus. Hera was the stepmother and enemy of Heracles, who was named "Hera-famous" in her honor; Heracles is the hero who, more than even Perseus, Cadmus or Theseus, introduced the Olympian ways in Greece. When Alcmene was pregnant with Heracles, Hera tried to prevent the birth from occurring by tying Alcmene's legs in knots. She was foiled by Galanthis, her servant, who told Hera that she had already delivered the baby. Hera turned her into a weasel. While Heracles was still an infant, Hera sent two serpents to kill him as he lay in his cot. Heracles throttled a single snake in each hand and was found by his nurse playing with their limp bodies as if they were a child's toys. One account of the origin of the Milky Way is that Zeus had tricked Hera into nursing the infant Heracles: discovering who he was, she pulled him from her breast, and a spurt of her milk formed the smear across the sky that can be seen to this day. Some myths state that Hera befriended Heracles for saving her from a giant who tried to rape her, and that she even gave her daughter Hebe as his bride. For a long time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus' affairs by leading her away and flattering her. Two other versions state that Hera was always amused by Echo's chatter or Echo tricked Hera by telling her Zeus was waiting for her at Olympus. When Hera discovered the deception, she cursed Echo to only repeat the words of others (hence our modern word "echo"). When Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Zeus was the father, she banned Leto from giving birth on "terra-firma", or the mainland, or any island at sea. Leto found the floating island of Delos, which was surrounded by swans. The island was neither mainland nor a real island, and Leto was able to give birth to her children on the island. When Hera learned that Semele, daughter of Cadmus King of Thebes, was pregnant by Zeus, she disguised herself as Semele's nurse and persuaded the princess to insist that Zeus show himself to her in his true form. When he was compelled to do so, his thunder and lightning blasted her. Zeus took the child and completed its gestation sewn into his own thigh. Hera almost caught Zeus with a mistress named Io, a fate avoided by Zeus turning Io into a beautiful white heifer. However, Hera was not completely fooled and demanded that Zeus give her the heifer as a present. Once Io was given to Hera, she placed her in the charge of Argus to keep her separated from Zeus. Zeus then commanded Hermes to kill Argus, which he did by lulling all one hundred eyes to sleep. In Ovid's interpolation, when Hera learned of Argus' death, she took his eyes and placed them in the plumage of the peacock, accounting for the eye pattern in its tail. Hera then sent a gadfly to sting Io as she wandered the earth. Eventually Io was driven to the ends of the earth, which the Romans believed to be Egypt, where she became a priestess of the Egyptian goddess, Isis. Lamia was a queen of Libya, whom Zeus loved. Hera killed Lamia's children and the grief turned her into a monster. Lamia was cursed with the inability to close her eyes so that she would always obsess over the image of her dead children. Zeus gave her the gift to be able to take her eyes out to rest, and then put them back in. Lamia was envious of other mothers and ate their children. Gerana was a queen of the Pygmies who boasted she was more beautiful than Hera. The wrathful goddess turned her into a crane and proclaimed that her bird descendants should wage eternal war on the Pygmy folk. The Garden of the Hesperides was Hera's orchard in the east, where a grove of trees bearing immortality-giving golden apples grew. Hera placed in the garden a never-sleeping, hundred-headed, dragon, named Ladon, as an additional safeguard. The apples figure into several stories, but the garden is the one place she feels safe and can forget the pain of her marriage. Before the Coup of Cronus: Miserable in her marriage, she wanted out. Somehow, anyhow, just out and away from her so-called loved ones. She'd spent thousands of years with a man who, though he loved her, was incapable of being faithful to her, and it tore her to pieces. Depression had sunk in, and it was followed by desperation and dejection. During the Coup: Hera will fall completely on the side of her son Ares, no questions asked. He's going against the man who has caused her so much anguish over the years. She will give anything and everything to help her son. Her one child who has never actually gone out of their way to personally hurt her. Mortal: Kate was born to a wealthy family who expected her to toe the line, marry young, and produce lots of babies. Born into a very catholic family, the choice presented her was either the life of the debutante turned wife and mother, or a life in the convent. Kate chose neither. Running away rather than deal with her family and their expectations that she become a good little member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and put up with the rest of their social networking bullshit, she disappeared, clearing out her savings account and trust fund as soon as she turned eighteen, leaving her fiance at the alter, and enrolling herself in college where she majored in biology. Graduating from UVA at the top of her class, she then went on to attend medical school at Johns Hopkins University, following that with a stint as a resident at Bethesda Naval Hospital. She specialized in obstetrics and gynecology, feeling called to help women in their time of need. After a few years of dealing with patients, she decided to go back into research, where her true passion was, and has since been working on various fertility treatments. Her real goal, though, is to find other ways to allow for conception, including taking the DNA material from two ovum and fusing it, allowing for a woman to get pregnant without the so-called aid of a man. This research has become quite controversial within and without of the medical community, and what little contact she's had with her family in recent years his died completely. She doesn't care. She feels driven to do this, no matter the cost to her reputation. For women everywhere who want complete independence from a man. Why are they in Athens now? She's attending a conference on reproductive technology and presenting her current research. Present location where they are staying Athens: Syntagma All characters should have dreams or feelings that there is something about their past. What has your character dreamed or felt and thought of it? She's been in several relationships, but none that she wanted to stay in for long. The men in question always made her feel constrained, and she has never been able to trust them. She's sure these trust issues stem from some part of her subconscious, but she's not sure where, seeing as her own family life was quite content as a child, her father not a lech, nor have any of her past partners shown themselves as untrustworthy. It's something inside her. She does realize this, and she attempts to make them understand, but she isn't sure they do at all. She's also having dreams of wandering in the dark through an apple orchard and petting a dragon, but that makes even less sense to the fact oriented Kate. On his/her journal: Ήρα Disclaimer This journal is part of a game, and not affiliated with the Grecian gods and goddesses in any way. This is for entertainment/gaming purposes only. No malice or infringement is intended and the contents of this journal and it should NOT be taken as true/authorized. 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