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| Homer in [[Iliad]] uses the description "boōpis [[potnia]] (Hērē)" (ox-eyed, mistress Hera), <ref name=Iliad451/>which probably relates her to a form of the Mediterranean Great goddess. <ref> U.Pestalozza (1951), "Religione Mediterranea", p.151 </ref>.<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Brien|first=Joan V.|author-link=Joan V. O'Brien|title=The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a77yKM26GfYC&pg=PA49|year=1993|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8476-7808-2|page=49}}</ref> <ref> Potnia is the title of the goddess of nature in the Mycenean cult :B.Dietriech (2004):''The origins of the Greek religion'' Bristol Phoenix Press. pp. 181-185</ref> The main center of the cult of Hera was the northeastern Peloponnese, especially Argolis. and her early cult seems to be different from the cult of Zeus. <ref>{{cite book|last=O'Brien|first=Joan V.|author-link=Joan V. O'Brien|title=The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a77yKM26GfYC&pg=PA42|year=1993|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8476-7808-2|page=42}} </ref> At [[Delphi]], [[Laconia]] ,[[Tinos]] and [[Pergamon]] a month was named after the goddess <ref name=Nilsson428>Nilsson, "Geschichte", Vol I, p.428-429 </ref>. As the patron goddess of marriage her most common epithet is "teleia" (bringing the fulfillement of marriage). As a goddess of marriage in literature she has the surnames "zygia" (of the yoke) and also the surnames "syzygios" (joining) and "gamēstolos" (bringing the troop of marriage). As a bride she carried the epithets "pais" (maiden), "nymphe" (bride) and "parthenos" (virgin). <ref name=Nilsson428/>. According to Plutarch a sacrifice was made to Hera "Gamelios" (of the marriage) for a happy married life. (Farnell Cults I, p.196). | Homer in [[Iliad]] uses the description "boōpis [[potnia]] (Hērē)" (ox-eyed, mistress Hera), <ref name=Iliad451/>which probably relates her to a form of the Mediterranean Great goddess. <ref> U.Pestalozza (1951), "Religione Mediterranea", p.151 </ref>.<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Brien|first=Joan V.|author-link=Joan V. O'Brien|title=The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a77yKM26GfYC&pg=PA49|year=1993|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8476-7808-2|page=49}}</ref> <ref> Potnia is the title of the goddess of nature in the Mycenean cult :B.Dietriech (2004):''The origins of the Greek religion'' Bristol Phoenix Press. pp. 181-185</ref> The main center of the cult of Hera was the northeastern Peloponnese, especially Argolis. and her early cult seems to be different from the cult of Zeus. <ref>{{cite book|last=O'Brien|first=Joan V.|author-link=Joan V. O'Brien|title=The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a77yKM26GfYC&pg=PA42|year=1993|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8476-7808-2|page=42}} </ref> At [[Delphi]], [[Laconia]] ,[[Tinos]] and [[Pergamon]] a month was named after the goddess <ref name=Nilsson428>Nilsson, "Geschichte", Vol I, p.428-429 </ref>. As the patron goddess of marriage her most common epithet is "teleia" (bringing the fulfillement of marriage). As a goddess of marriage in literature she has the surnames "zygia" (of the yoke) and also the surnames "syzygios" (joining) and "gamēstolos" (bringing the troop of marriage). As a bride she carried the epithets "pais" (maiden), "nymphe" (bride) and "parthenos" (virgin). <ref name=Nilsson428/>. According to Plutarch a sacrifice was made to Hera "Gamelios" (of the marriage) for a happy married life. (Farnell Cults I, p.196). |
| Hera exists only as a spouse of Zeus and she was worshipped as his bride from a very early period. <ref name=Chicago/>The "sacred marriage" of Zeus with Hera is early described by Homer in the Iliad. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+14.295&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Iliad 14.295]. Walter Burkert notices that "To what extent such a sacred marriage was not just a way of viewing nature, but an act expressed or hinted at in ritual is difficult to say".<ref>Burkert 1985:108.</ref> In some cults Hera disappears and then she reappears like the goddess of fertility. <ref>{{Cite book |last1=Burkert |first1=Walter |title=Greek religion |last2=Burkert |first2=Walter |date=1998 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-36281-9 |location=Cambridge, Mass |page=131-133}} </ref> In her fest Daidala at Plataia of Boeotia the prossesional wedding ceremony had survived from prehistoric times. (Farnell Cults I 182).(Pausanias 2.38.2) The nymph Plataia (the broad one), the consort of Zeus is a form of the earth goddess (West). In Boeotia Hera had the surnames "Kithaironia" and "nymphevomene" (bride) | Hera exists only as a spouse of Zeus and she was worshipped as his bride from a very early period. <ref name=Chicago/>The "sacred marriage" of Zeus with Hera is early described by Homer in the Iliad.<ref> [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+14.295&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Iliad 14.295].</ref> Walter Burkert notices that "To what extent such a sacred marriage was not just a way of viewing nature, but an act expressed or hinted at in ritual is difficult to say".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Burkert |first1=Walter |title=Greek religion |last2=Burkert |first2=Walter |date=1998 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-36281-9 |location=Cambridge, Mass |page=108, 131-134}} </ref> "The disappearance and retrieval of Hera in some cults has parallels in other fertility cults". In her fest Daidala at Plataia of Boeotia the prossesional wedding ceremony had survived from prehistoric times. (Farnell Cults I 182).(Pausanias 2.38.2) In the myth Hera reappears to look at the bride Plataia (the broad one) who is a form of the earth goddess. (Pausanias ) (West). In Boeotia she had the surnames "Kithaironia" and "nymphevomene" (bride). Her fest "Toneia" at Samos was probably a fertility ritual. celebrated her annual arrival in a chariot, purification and the discovery of the image of the goddess were thought to renew all life. (O.Brian 54-56). At Stymphalus Hera had the surnames "parthenos" (virgin) and "chera" (widowed). (Pausanias 8.22.2). Parthenos could symbolize the young earth in the spring and widowed the sterile earth in autumn and winter. (Farnell Cults I 182) |
| In her fest "Toneia" at Samos her annual arrival in a chariot, purification and the discovery of the image of the goddess were thought to renew all life. (O.Brian). At Stymphalus Hera had the surnames "parthenos" (virgin) and "chera" (widowed). (Pausanias 8.22.2). Parthenos could symbolize the young earth in the spring and widowed the sterile earth in autumn and winter. (Farnell Cults I 182) | |
| At Aegina during the fest "Hecatombaia", the image of Hera was seated in a wagon drawn by white cows. Hera disappeared in the forest and then she was discovered by a goat. (Farnell Cults I 187-189). (O, Brian) At Creta the worship of Zeus and Hera took place at Knossos near the river Theren. Their marriage was reenacted in a very old rite which continued unchanged.(Nilsson p.430). (Schachermeyer). | At Aegina during the fest "Hecatombaia", the image of Hera was seated in a wagon drawn by white cows. Hera disappeared in the forest and then she was discovered by a goat. (Farnell Cults I 187-189). (O, Brian) At Creta the worship of Zeus and Hera took place at Knossos near the river Theren. Their marriage was reenacted in a very old rite which continued unchanged.(Nilsson p.430). (Schachermeyer). |
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