Hestia, Greek Goddess

Hera is the Greek goddess of marriage, childbirth, empire, and kings. Her parents are god and goddess Cronus and Rhea. Hera has five other siblings: Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, and Demeter. When Hera was born her siblings were swallowed by her father Cronus. She is the sister and wife of Zeus, who is the main god. The Greeks thought it was okay for the gods to marry their sisters or brothers. Hera herself has five children; Ares, who is the god of war, Hephaistos the god of metalworking, Hebe, goddess of youth and brides, Eileithyia, goddess of childbirth, and Eris, the goddess of strife. Hera was born with great beauty. She is a brunette with big blue eyes. Her powers are immortality, the ability not to get hurt, super strength and she can bless and curse marriages. She was also able to protect women from death during childbirth. One of her weakness is jealousy, she is very jealous

“Great victory require great risk” said Hera (Rick, 2015). Hera is the queen of the gods. She was the daughter of titans Cronus and Rhean. Hera had a brother named Zeus which she eventually married. Hera had four kids named Ares, Hephaestus, Hebe, and Ilithyia. Ares the god of war, Hephaestus the god of fire, Hebe the goddess of youth, and Ilithyia the goddess of childbirth. Hera was the goddess of marriage and protector of married women. There is a lot of controversy on websites about if she was the goddess of marriage and childbirth or just the goddess of marriage. Hera had many powers and weakness, her myths tells us about her personality, and she is very significant to Greek mythology.

Hera was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. She was born on the riverbanks of Imbrasons, under a willow tree. When Hera and her siblings were born Cornos her father, thought one of his children was going to kill him, so he swallowed all of them. Including Hera. Later on when Zeus was born and grew up he killed Cronos, and freed his brothers and sisters.

Hera: Queen of all the gods and goddesses, she is the goddess of marriage and family. Her symbols are the Peacock and the Cow. Hera is sister to Hades, Poseidon, and also wife of Zeus. Zeus had an affair with a mortal and had a kid named Heracles. When Hera heard about it she got mad so she decided to punish Heracles for it and sent snakes to attack him in his crib.

She was called the “Queen of Heaven’. Hera was a powerful queen in her right. Her symbols area: Cattle, Peafowl, Pomegranate, Lion, Diadem, Sceptre, Sacred Lotus, Lily, Cuckoos, Black Panther, Feather, and Throne. She was Zeus’s wife and sister. Hera was the reigning female goddess of olympus because she was Zeus’s wife.

Hestia was the oldest of the Gods of Olympus. Even though Hestia was a girl, surprisingly somehow she disliked gossip. People often think that Hestia wasn’t very important, but in many ways she was one of the most important Gods. After both Poseidon and Zeus both confess their love for Hestia, a war nearly broke out. Hestia took care of

Daughter of Cronus and Rhea, sister of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, and Hestia. Mother of eight children.

When Hephaestus was born Zeus and Hera were in an argument. Heras anger built up and she grabbed Hephaestus by the leg and threw him off Mount Olympus. Hera said that he was the most appalling child she had and that she wanted nothing to do with him. Therefore, for nine days and nine nights he fell from Mount Olympus to the seas. He was then brought up by Thetis and Eurynome. Thetis was the god of the sea and the leader of all fifty Nereides. She was married to Peleus who was chosen for her. Eurynome was the third wife of Zeus and she actually caught him as he was falling from Mount Olympus. The two gods raised the boy and taught him all the skills he needed to know. Especially what it take to be an amazing artist. This incident made Hephaestus have to walk with a walking stick. As Hephaestus grew up he became the father of Blacksmiths. Hephaestus developed armor for Archillies, who was in the Trojan War, and many more accessories. Due to the amount of work he did, he always had crud on his clothing. The dirt on his clothing proved his hard work. The act of being a craftsman met a lot to

She was a powerful magician and a skillful healer, and protected the young and the ill. The goddess represented all things feminine, and the qualities of a good wife and mother. The moon was a symbol of Isis. She was said to know all secrets. She also created and nurtured all living things.

​Isis, the ideal mother and wife worshiped by ancient Egyptians, believed to be the patroness of nature and magic. Isis is often depicted as the mother of Horus. Horus is one of the more significant deities of Egyptian religion. Often represented by a falcon, Horus is said to be the sky, also containing the sun and moon. After visiting the Brooklyn Art Museum, I was most intrigued by the bronze statue of Isis Nursing Horus. I noticed the parallels between Isis and Horus statue and the Christian Virgin Mother and

A great statue was built as one of many votive offerings that once covered the island that also includes altars and temples. Throughout Greece in the north and south as well among the islands, festivals to Helios included sacrifices of white horses, oxen, sheep and burnt offerings of incense. Frankincense was the incense often used, and the rising vapors could be read by oracles and fortune tellers. Sacrificed animals were led to the altar in full adornment as if ready for the parade (entertainmentguide.com, 2015). Zeus gave Helios his own personally statue but in later times an earthquake hit and knocked down the statue (dreamessays.com,

Zeus was the youngest of the children born from Kronos and Rhea. Kronos swallowed all of the his children one by one because of an old prophecy he had heard that one of his children will overthrow him. When Rhea found out she was pregnant with Zeus, she was not going to let the same thing happen to him, so she gave birth to Zeus in Crete, and tricked Kronos into swallowing a rock, leading him to believe that it was the baby, making all of the other children come back in reverse order, so now the oldest one is the youngest. This made Zeus to now be the oldest, and the strongest, of all of his siblings, being that he was never swallowed. He is the God of the Sky, and also controls thunder and lightning, which he often uses to his advantage. Zeus plays a huge role in Hesiod’s Theogony, as he is portrayed to of been riddled with bad temper, and we see that a lot in some of the actions he takes through it.

“Greek queen of Olympus, sister and wife of Zeus, daughter of Cronus and Rhea” (Daly 67). Cronus was the god of time and Rhea the goddess of nature. They were mother and father of the gods and held tons of power. When Rhea gave birth to Hera, there were a few difficulties. “but then swallowed by Cronus because he believed that one of his children would overthrow him just as he overthrew his father” (“Hera”).

Hera was born to Cronus, the Greek Titan god of time and the ages, and to the Greek Titan goddess queen of heaven and the mother of the gods.

She has then birthed Uranus, the starry sky, to the Mountains, and to Pontus, the sterile sea and became her mate. Uranus,however, was afraid of his first group of children who were monsters and hid them far beneath the earth which in turn cause Gia great pain. She then soon birth gods and goddesses that did not look like monsters. Out of all the children there was Kronus (master of time) who Gaia asked to kill his father and his Father place. Kronous soon married Rhea (an earth goddess) and had children as well, but feared them just like his father before him. Which enticed him to wall every child, Rhea birth he swallowed each child whole . Although Rhea and her mother Gaia were able to hide zeus and place him on a island to grow and become stronger to face his father and defeat him. Zeus soon became God of all gods goddesses and race of