#hera Argeia

[fabledfoxglove]

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[chuckecheesekid9000]

Here is my first SU x AB NG

Meet yinyxng_xxo’s Lapis Lazuli x Brian Tenma Child: Lily Lazuli Tenma

Hope you love her.

BIO:

Name: Lillith Lazuli Tenma

Nickname: Lily, or. Lil

Age: 16

Species: Half human x half gem

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Black

Gem: Lapis Lazuli

Gem location: Back

Personality: Calm, polite, Creative, Romantic And Shy

Gem abilities: Water manipulation, flight, bubbling, superhuman strength/durability, sonic speed, project memories, fuses, hydromimicry, water walking, and shapeshift

Other develop gem abilities: Healing ( only can use this with water ) Hydrokinesis, and generate water

Other abilities: Signing, Dancing ( only ballet ) and Drawing

FAMILY:

Mother: Lapis Lazuli-Tenma ( give up Her physical form to give birth to Lily )

Father: Brian Tenma

Grandmother: Elizabeth Furban-Tenma

Grandfather: Duncan Tenma

Aunt: Beverly Tenma

Uncles: Bim and Bam Tenma

Great Grandmother: Abigail Nattura-Tenma

Great Grandfather: Vincent Tenma

Grandaunt: Rebecca Tenma

Grandaunt by marriage: Jean Saruta-Tenma

Granduncle: Dr. Bill Tenma

1st cousins once removed: Toby and Teresa

1st cousin once removed-by-marriage: Michael

2nd cousin: MJ

Great Great Grandmother: Lyric Boynton-Nattura

Great Great Grandfather: Ryder Nattura

Great Great Grandaunt: Honeymaren Nattura

Great Great Grandaunt: Evangeline Nattura

Great Great Great Grandmother: Linnea ???-Nattura

Great Great Great Grandfather: Halvard Nattura

Great Great Great Great Grandmother: Melody Pendragon-Boynton

Great Great Great Great Grandfather: Alexander Boynton

Great Great Great Great Grandmother: Ariel Magusanus-Pendragon

Great Great Great Great Grandmother: Gabriella ???-Boynton

Great Great Great Great Grandfather: Urchin Boynton

Great Great Great Great Grandfather: Eric Pendragon

Great Great Great Great Granduncles: Tristan and Denton

Great Great Great Great Grandmother: Queen Athena Neptunesdatter-Magusanus

Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather: King Triton Magusanus

Great Great Great Great Great Grandaunts: Attina, Alana, Adella, Aquata, Arista, 

and Andrina  Magusanus

Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandmother: Amphitride Aegaeus-Magusanus

Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather: Poseidon Magusanus

Great Great Great Great Great Great Step-Grandmother: Drulansa

Illegitimate Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandaunts: Ursula and Morgana

Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandmother: Rhea Panhellenios-Magusanus

Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather: Kronos Magusanus

Great Great Great Great Great Great Granduncles: Hades and Zeus Magusanus

Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandaunt by marriage: Hera Argeia-Magusanus

Great Great Great Great Great Great Step-Grandaunt by marriage: Hippolyta

3rd cousin 6 times removed: Hercules Magusanus

Illegitimate 3rd cousins 6 times removed: Jason (The Chosen One) and Diana (Wonder Woman)

3rd cousin 6 times removed by marriage: Megara Magusanus

7th cousin 5 times removed: Hebe Magusanus

Honorary Aunts: Tambry Noceda-Valentino, Jenny Pizza, Kiki Pizza, Amethyst, and peridot (

Honorary Uncles: Grenda Gredinator, Candy Chiu-Fryman, Peedee Fryman, Buck Dewey, Robbie Valentino, Sour Cream, and Onion

Honarary Cousins: Serphy, Char, and Flo

Best Friends: Lina Loud

Good Friends: Matt Barriga, Esme Pines, Ava Nicholson, and Zoey Rogers

Other Freinds: Bismuth, Garnet, and Pearl

Love Interest: Matt Barriga

LIKES:

Favorite tv series: Cartoons and anime

Favorite seasons: Summer and Winter

Favorite sound: Music

Favorite place: the ocean

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite time: Night

Favorite element: water

Favorite food: Seafood ( especially seafood pizza )

Favorite beverage: Water and Soda

Favorite dessert: Ice cream

Favorite fruit: Coconut

Favorite fairytale: the little mermaid (rewritten version with a happy ending)

Favorite mythological creature: Mermaids, sirens or any other water creature

DISLIKES:

Hated tv series: Documentaries about boring stuff ( except about the ocean, rivers and mermaids )

Hated seasons: Spring and Fall

Hated sounds: The weather

Hated place: Small cities

Hated color: Dark Pink

Hated time: Dawn

Hated element: Fire

Hated food: Any good with onions

Hated beverage: Diet/Zero Sugar Sodas

Hated dessert: Frozen Yogurt

Hated fruit: Durians

Hated fairytale: Cinderella

Hated Mythological Creature: Vampires

TRIVIA:

1- She got her father's eyes and her mother's hair bangs

2- when she was little she thought her mother was a mermaid

3- Amethyst and Peridot are both protective of her. Lily loves them like aunts. She is the only one to call them aunt misty and aunt peri

4- She is close to her granny elizabeth, loves painting, photographing, making cakes, and cookies with her.

5- She loves the ocean, she will sometimes shapeshifts into a mermaid and swim for hours.

6- She hates the color dark pink. Since the moment she was born. So there are a lot of kid/baby pictures wearing blue or any color as long as it is not pink.

7- Lapis Lazuli recorded audio tapes of her singing different lullabies for her daughter to hear. Lily loves it and treasures it.

8- Lapis Lazuli also left video messages and letters to her to read. Especially one for the day she gets married someday.

9- She loves to sing and dance. Especially with her father. But she is shy to do it in public.

10- Her full name is Lily Lazuli Tenma. But most people call her Lily Lazuli.

Singing

Lily's voice claims

Sangonomiya Kokomi

Eng Ver. (Risa Mei)

Lily Lazuli Tenma Belongs to yinyxng xxo

[verdantlyviolet]

Hera and the River Gods of Argos

"I go now to the ends of the generous earth on a visit to Okeanos, whence the gods have risen, and Tethys our mother who brought me up kindly in their own house, and cared for me and took me from Rheia, at that time when Zeus of the wide brows drove Kronos underneath the earth and the barren water." Iliad 14.200

As early as the Iliad, Homer claims Hera was raised by Okeanos and Tethys, the river encircling the world and his wife the goddess of all freshwater. In the Iliad, Hera, as the goddess of marriage, wishes to travel to see them to fix their broken marriage so they may forever call her dearest and worthy of reverence. While there are several stories of where Hera was raised after being disgorged by her father, this particular one is perhaps a nod to her oldest cult site and patron city, Argos. Argos is one of the cities that claims to be the birthplace of Hera, and has their own myth of her upbringing upon their riverbanks. Here she was raised by the Asterionides, not the titans.

"The sanctuary [of Hera] itself is on a lower part of Euboia. Euboia is the name they give to the hill here, saying that Asterion the river had three daughters, Euboia, Prosymna, and Akraia, and that they were nurses of Hera. The hill opposite the Heraion they name after Akraia, the environs of the sanctuary they name after Euboia, and the land beneath the Heraion after Prosymna. This Asterion flows above the Heraion, and falling into a cleft disappears. On its banks grows a plant, which also is called asterion. They offer the plant itself to Hera, and from its leaves weave her garlands." Pausanias 2.17.1

Hera’s special bond with the potamoi is linked to her patronage of Argos itself. Pausanias relates two local tellings of the story in which Hera won the Argolid in a contest with Poseidon, as judged by the river gods, or, the King Inakhos, eponymous of the local river. This story also cements the line of kings in Argos, as either the mortal Inakhos or the divine river of the same name was the ancestor of Phoroneus, the first man and supposed founder of the city.

“The land [of Argos] was without water [when Danaus and his daughters arrived there], thanks to Poseidon, who, in anger at Inakhos for testifying that the region belonged to Hera, had dried up even the springs.” Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 13

"The oldest tradition in the region now called Argolis is that when Inakhos was king he named the river after himself and sacrificed to Hera. There is also another legend which says that Inakhos . . . was not a man but the river. This river, with the rivers Kephisos and Asterion, judged concerning the land between Poseidon and Hera. They decided that the land belonged to Hera, and so Poseidon made their waters disappear. For this reason neither Inakhos nor either of the other rivers I have mentioned provides any water except after rain." Pausanias 2.15.4

"They say that Poseidon inundated the greater part of the country [Argos] because Inakhos and his assessors decided that the land belonged to Hera and not to him. Now it was Hera who induced Poseidon to send the sea back, but the Argives made a sanctuary to Poseidon Prosklystios at the spot where the tide ebbed." Pausanias 2.22.4

While the bathing of a goddess’ image is a widespread practice, one particular instance of this is the yearly procession of Hera’s image south from Argos to the Kanathos spring in Nauplia. There, Hera is bathed and regains her virginity, presumably before her ritual marriage to Zeus. Pausanias mentions a potential mystery cult of Hera, and at the Heraion in the Argolid there is a spring that flows beside the temple where Hera’s priestesses also partake in their own ritual.

"In Nauplia is a spring called Kanathos. Here, say the Argives, Hera bathes every year and recovers her maidenhood. This is one of the sayings told as a holy secret at the Mysteries which they celebrate in honor of Hera." Pausanias 2.38.2

As the patron of Argos and undoubtedly concerned with the success and fertility of her beloved city, it is no wonder Hera has such recurring close ties with the rivers of her sacred land.

[comicwaren]

From Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 6 #012, “The time of mercy is past.”

Art by Juann Cabal and Federico Blee

Written by Al Ewing

[verdantlyviolet]

😍

Head of Hera

Marble Head of Hera. Found in the Argive Heraion. It belongs to the cult statue of the goddess or to a statue from the West pediment of the temple of Hera.

Argive work, associated with the school of Polykleitos, circa 420 BC.

(National Archaeological Museum, Athens.)

[lady-loki-laufeyson]

Comic Heroines - Hera Argeia

Alter Ego - N/A Species - Olympian Power / Abilities -

Superhuman speed, stamina, and durability

Regenerative healing factor

Immortality

Energy manipulation

Telepathy

[olympianbutch]

WHAT ARE EPITHETS?

Epithets are descriptive bynames used to express quality characteristics. When used in relation to the gods, epithets tend to denote location or function. Other times they take on a decorative quality.

Examples of epithets that indicate location:

Zeus Nemeios, or “Zeus of Nemea.”

Hera Argeia, or “Hera of Argos.”

Aphrodite Kypris, or “Aphrodite of Cyprus.”

Examples of epithets that indicate function:

Zeus Ombrios is a deliverer of rain.

Hera Teleia presides over marriage rites.

Aphrodite Nikephoros is a bringer of victory.

Examples of decorative or poetic epithets:

Zeus is popularly called “The Thunderer.”

Hera Boopis tells us that she has cow eyes.

Aphrodite is called both golden and shapely.

HOW ARE EPITHETS USED?

Simply put, epithets help us differentiate between the many faces of the gods.

Using Haides as an example, I might invoke him as “Haides Polysemantor,” the ruler of many. As Polysemantor, Haides acts as king of the dead, and this instantiation of him will be concerned strictly with matters that involve that specialized role.

Similarly, if my friend invokes him as Haides Plouton, he’d be fulfilling a specialized role as the god of agrarian wealth. Both Haides Polysemantor and Haides Plouton can be identified as the same god, but the use of epithets makes it clear that they have wildly different spheres of influence.

HOW I MAKE SENSE OF EPITHETS ― UPG

When white light passes through a prism, it’s split into seven distinct wavelengths (i.e., the colors of the rainbow). This phenomenon is called dispersion, and I’ve been using it as a means of explaining epithets (especially the seemingly contradictory ones). For instance, how can Hera exist as Khera (Widow) in Arkadia and as the wife of Zeus elsewhere?

Well, when a god that prevails over a large sphere of influence (white light) passes through a medium (our consciousness), they’re split into specific waves that are easier to see and understand. These waves, or epithets, have their own mythologies, competences, and even places where they reside.

WHERE CAN I FIND THE EPITHETS?

Theoi.com has a wonderful collection of epithets that can be found at the bottom of each god's cult page! :)

[loemius]

i dont see enough love for queen Hera going around. here are some of my favorite epithets of hers.

Ανθεια Antheia: of the flowers, blooming, friend of flowers

Αερομορτηοσ Aeromorfos of air, having the form of air

Αργεια  Argeia of Argos, principle area of her cult, disputed birthplace

βοῶπις Boop’is cow-eyed, alludes to her story with Io and her syncs with cows

Γαμηλια Gamêlia of marriage

Ἡνιοχη Hêniokhê of the chariot

Καλλισταεπηα��οσ Kallistaefanos beautifully crowned

Χηρα Khíra lady of authority, literally widow. also refers to her as a goddess of women throughout their life

Ολυμπια Olympia of Olympia, principle area of her cult

Φαρυγαια Pharygaia of Pharygaea, principle area of her cult

Σαμια Samia of Samos, principle area of her cult, disputed birthplace

praise be the queen of Olympus, white-armed Lady Hera!

[sources: theoi.com, hellenicgods.org, my greek speaking bestie @kledones]

[witchbitchheadedtoaditch]

Olympian Deities: Hera

This is a brief overview of Hera

Realm: Queen of the Gods, Goddess of marriage, women, the sky and the stars of heaven

Parents: Kronos and Rhea

Offspring:

By Zeus: Hebe, Ares, Eileithyia, Angelos, Enyo, Eris

By Dionysus: The Charities

No father: Hephaestus, Typhon

Symbols: Royal scepter, diadem, lotus-tipped staff

Colors: Yellow, gold, white, royal blue, purple, dark green, grey, silver

Offerings: Honey, flowers, incense, perfume, pomegranates, bread, chocolate, pomegranate seeds, volunteering, donations to foundations for domestic abuse victims, taking care of yourself.

Sacred Animals: Cows, lions, cuckoos, peacocks, doves, carrion-crows, snakes, dragons, crabs, snails, shelled creatures in general

Sacred Plants: Pomegranate, lilies, poppies, irises, white roses, waterlilies

Element: Earth? Air?

Metals/Stones: Pearls, garnets, citrine, amber, diamonds, star sapphires, gold, silver

Number: ?

Planet: Venus

Time: ?

Tarot Cards: The Empress, Strength, The Hierophant

Altar Ideas: Peacock feathers, peacock images, cow patterns, cow images, cuckoo bird art, cuckoo clocks, family photos, throne imagery, perfumes, silver and gold jewelry

Epithets:

Alexandros: protector of men

Aigophagos: goat-eater

Akraia: she of heights

Argeia: she of Argos

Basileia: queen

Bounala: she of the mound

Boopis: cow-eyed, cow-faced

Leukolenos: White-armed

Pais: child

Parthenos: virgin; from the Parthenius river

Teleia: Goddess of marriage, matron Goddess, woman

Chere/Chera: widowed, divorced; lady of authority

Acraea: she who has a temple on a hill

Ammonia: derived from her worship in Elis

Antheia: blooming, friend of the flowers

Game'lii: one of the deities presiding over marriage

Hi'ppia: she of the horses

Hyperche'ria: the Goddess who holds her protecting hand over something; protectress

Pharygaea: derived from her worship at Pharygae

Sa'mia: derived from the island of Samos

Zygia: presiding over marriage; yoked, married

Nympheuomene: betrothed bride

Aphrodite: of Aphrodite

Ataurote: unmarried, unbulled, virginal

Prodromia: of the pioneer

Aeromorphos: having the form of air, derived from her union with Zerfs

Exacesterius: one who averts or cures evil

Callistephanus: beautifully crowned

Chrysothronus: she who sits on a throne of gold

Cydra: glorious, illustrious, noble

Macaira: happy, blessed

Pambasileia: queen of all

Pantogenethlos: all-generating

Pancrates: all-powerful

Potnia: queen

[hellenismosonline]

Olympian Deities: Hera

This is a brief overview of Hera

Realm: Queen of the Gods, Goddess of marriage, women, the sky and the stars of heaven

Parents: Kronos and Rhea

Offspring:

By Zeus: Hebe, Ares, Eileithyia, Angelos, Enyo, Eris

By Dionysus: The Charities

No father: Hephaestus, Typhon

Symbols: Royal scepter, diadem, lotus-tipped staff

Colors: Yellow, gold, white, royal blue, purple, dark green, grey, silver

Offerings: Honey, flowers, incense, perfume, pomegranates, bread, chocolate, pomegranate seeds, volunteering, donations to foundations for domestic abuse victims, taking care of yourself.

Sacred Animals: Cows, lions, cuckoos, peacocks, doves, carrion-crows, snakes, dragons, crabs, snails, shelled creatures in general

Sacred Plants: Pomegranate, lilies, poppies, irises, white roses, waterlilies

Element: Earth? Air?

Metals/Stones: Pearls, garnets, citrine, amber, diamonds, star sapphires, gold, silver

Number: ?

Planet: Venus

Time: ?

Tarot Cards: The Empress, Strength, The Hierophant

Altar Ideas: Peacock feathers, peacock images, cow patterns, cow images, cuckoo bird art, cuckoo clocks, family photos, throne imagery, perfumes, silver and gold jewelry

Epithets:

Alexandros: protector of men

Aigophagos: goat-eater

Akraia: she of heights

Argeia: she of Argos

Basileia: queen

Bounala: she of the mound

Boopis: cow-eyed, cow-faced

Leukolenos: White-armed

Pais: child

Parthenos: virgin; from the Parthenius river

Teleia: Goddess of marriage, matron Goddess, woman

Chere/Chera: widowed, divorced; lady of authority

Acraea: she who has a temple on a hill

Ammonia: derived from her worship in Elis

Antheia: blooming, friend of the flowers

Game'lii: one of the deities presiding over marriage

Hi'ppia: she of the horses

Hyperche'ria: the Goddess who holds her protecting hand over something; protectress

Pharygaea: derived from her worship at Pharygae

Sa'mia: derived from the island of Samos

Zygia: presiding over marriage; yoked, married

Nympheuomene: betrothed bride

Aphrodite: of Aphrodite

Ataurote: unmarried, unbulled, virginal

Prodromia: of the pioneer

Aeromorphos: having the form of air, derived from her union with Zerfs

Exacesterius: one who averts or cures evil

Callistephanus: beautifully crowned

Chrysothronus: she who sits on a throne of gold

Cydra: glorious, illustrious, noble

Macaira: happy, blessed

Pambasileia: queen of all

Pantogenethlos: all-generating

Pancrates: all-powerful

Potnia: queen

[herateleia-blog]

The Transformation of Hera

discussions of how Hera was “retheologized” in the Iliad to fit a panhellenic interpretation (or w/e)

Threats of rebellion in which Hera was ringleader, hinted at throughout the epic, now belong to the remote past. Her present plots provoke outbursts of anger from Zeus and of laughter from Homer's audiences. For us, at least, she is the stereotypical wife--strong-willed and frustrated. The religious aspect of Hera, while still retained in theIliad, is shaded over for Panhellenic purposes.

As historians of religion have long realized, the Olympian husband and wife, sons and daughters, and varied aunts and uncles are drawn from widely different regional myth and cult. Hera's offspring, for instance, are a hybrid clan: Ares fromThrace, Hephaistos from Lemnos, and Hebe from Argos. Although studies of local myth show that the Panhellenic family is an epic creation, scholars have not hitherto observed the profound effect that it must have had upon the worship of Hera. Most scholars have, in effect, taken Homer's word for it that Hera was always a wife of Zeus. But I suggest that Panhellenic Homer gave the Greeks a new Hera much the way that Milton gave the world a new Eve. Just as worshipers of the God of Genesis often remember Milton's Eve more vividly than the woman portrayed in Genesis 2-4, so worshipers of Hera Argeia must have begun to perceive their deity in a very new way once the great epics were disseminated in their Panhellenic form. 6. But whereas Eve was but the first woman even in the Genesis account, Hera apparently was the preeminent goddess of early Argolic song.

Her role as earth goddess is transformed. As we saw in Chapter 4.B, Homer and Hesiod each know the early Hera as one who mothers or nurses earth monsters like Typhon and the Lernaean Hydra, but each has his own way of adapting her to the new reality of the Panhellenic family of gods. In Hesiod, the early Hera and the Panhellenic Hera strangely subsist side by side, at times within a single couplet:

The illustrious wife of Zeus nursing [the Nemean lion], settled him among the hills of Nemea, a plague to humanity. ( Theogony328-29)

Although Hesiodic poetry seems little concerned with the inconsistency inherent in an "illustrious" wife, nursing a plague,"Panhellenic Homer" works quite differently. Rather than juxtaposing the old and new, he integrates the two Heras, discarding most regional attachments and reshaping her character. He appropriates old motifs and infuses them with such new life that we think he creates them ex nihilo. Though he discards the notion of her mothering or nursing demons of chaos, he depicts her as one whose venom pyschologically nurses the hero's bestial instincts. We have also seen how the alternately grotesque and humorous setting of the theomachy of Iliad21 utilizes her monstrous past. She roars orders to her firegod son Hephaistos (alias Typhon), promising to raise firestorms by which to destroy an intransigent river god. 7. These represent, however, but part of the story of her transformation.

As we shall see, her seasonal sovereignty over the Argolid is transformed. However much or little Zeus' and Hera's myth and cult intersected in the early Argolid, the archaeological evidence suggests that he was relatively unimportant there. 8.Vestiges of regional cult suggest myths in which Hera was patron of all life and death. Panhellenic myth transforms this Hera into a goddess of guile.

The myths and rites of Hera Argeia had to be retheologized to accommodate her new mythic position, perhaps more basically than any other regional deity. I say this for two reasons. First, her title suggests that her previous position in Argolic myth was more exalted there. Second, the Iliad has more need of her than of others, from a Panhellenic point of view. Panhellenism was not really conceivable without subordination and hierarchizing. The family is the most positive and the most powerful metaphor available for arguing the need to subordinate some to others. In the Olympian family,Panhellenic Homer (whether one or more poets) gives Greeks a metaphor by which they understand the often disparate, contradictory rituals practiced and legends commemorated at regional hilltops, groves, and riversides. More important to the stability of the embryonic city states, this Olympian family, ultimately held in check by the father god, provides a stable patriarchy: Zeus would not be the victim of a succession masterminded by a Hera or Gaia. Hence, the relationship of Zeus and Hera was to become a Panhellenic institution just as real and, in its own way, just as influential as the Panhellenicgames at Olympia or the oracle at Delphi.

This is not to suggest that the dissemination of epic destroyed local or, in Hera's case, regional myth or cult. Quite the contrary. In both the Samian Tonaia and the Argive Hekatombaia, regional myths and rituals persist: the tying of the goddess or her priestess to a tree of life, the bathing of the xoana in the living river water, the stories about sailors attempting to remove the icon, and the eventual return of the figure to its house in the sanctuary. In Panhellenic settings, however, the bathing becomes mainly marital in orientation. Similarly, the binding to a tree probably comes to be understood as a binding--and taming--of the wife to her spouse.

[winebrightruby]

Epithets are specific titles that narrow down which aspect/role of the god you’re addressing. (Most of them. Some of them are poetic/obscure and we’re not sure what they mean exactly.) “Phoibos Apollon” means something like “Bright/Shining Apollon” and would be a way to address him as a god of light and the sun. “Apollon Paian” refers to “Apollon the Healer” or “Apollon the Deliverer” and would be a way to address him as a god of healing or savior. 

There are also historical epithets that reference a place a god was worshipped or where a major temple stood (Hera Argeia -- of Argos, Hera Samia -- of Samos).

That’s a very brief overview that’s glossing over a lot of exceptions, but basically you can think of epithets as titles (as in, of nobility) that come from a variety of different sources.

Can someone on the Hellenic end of tumblr help me out real quick? I’m new to this and I’m not sure what the epithets/the words after the gods’ names mean

[verdantlyviolet]

Hera Boōpis

The prominence of cattle in the Argive Hera cult is reflected in a Homeric epithet for the goddess, “ox-eyed” (boōpis). Although surprising to modern sensibilities, this title reflects the beauty attributed by pastoral cultures to the animals on which they are economically dependent.

- Understanding Greek Religion by Jennifer Larson

[comicwaren]

“It stands proudly against the storm... and it does not stand alone.” -- Hercules

Cover art for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 6 #012, “The time of mercy is past.”

Art by Rafael Albuquerque and Marcelo Maiolo

[sooojulia]

Wine Packaging for “Hera Argeia”

More Here:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/51075061/OneMorePack-2017-HERA-ARGEIA-WINE-PACKAGING

[jaimeariansencespedes]

008 – HISTORIA DE LA SALUD – MITOLOGÍA – LOS DIOSES –

HEPATOSCOPIA: Análisis del hígado de animales sacrificados en ceremonias mágico-religiosas con el fin de leer el futuro de la salud de un enfermo, este tipo de rito es muy utilizado en la medicina primitiva en casi todas las latitudes.

HERA: Reina de los dioses, hermana y consorte de Zeus.  Hera simboliza los aspectos femeninos de la naturaleza, es la esposa inmaculada e incorruptible del Rey del Olimpo.  (Grecia).

Hera, es la legítima esposa y una de las tres hermanas del dios Zeus en el panteón olímpico de la mitología griega clásica. Además, ocupaba el cargo de Reina de los dioses. Su equivalente en la mitología romana era Juno. Se le sacrificaban la vaca y más tarde el pavo real. Su madre se llamaba Rea y su padre Cronos.

Hera fue conocida por su naturaleza celosa y vengativa, principalmente contra las amantes y la descendencia de Zeus, pero también contra los mortales con los que se cruzaba, como Pelias. Paris, quien la ofendió al elegir a Afrodita como la diosa más bella, se ganó así su odio eterno.

Se representa a Hera majestuosa y solemne, a menudo en el trono y coronada con el polos (una alta corona cilíndrica usada por varias de las Grandes diosas), pudiendo llevar en su mano la granada, símbolo de la fértil sangre y la muerte, y sustituto de la cápsula narcótica de la amapola. ​ ​ 

Hera pudo haber sido la primera a quien los griegos dedicaran un santuario en un templo cerrado con techo, en Samos sobre el 800 aC. Posteriormente fue reemplazado por el Hereo, uno de los mayores templos griegos de la historia.

(Los altares griegos de la época clásica estaban frente a los templos, al aire libre.) Se construyeron muchos templos en ese lugar, por lo que las evidencias son confusas en cierta medida y las dataciones arqueológicas inciertas.

Sabemos que el templo creado por el escultor y arquitecto Roico fue destruido entre 570 y el 560 aC., siendo reemplazado por el templo de Polícrates entre el 540 y el 530 aC. En uno de estos templos hubo un bosque de 155 columnas. Tampoco hay evidencias de losas en este templo, lo que sugiere que nunca fue finalizado o que estuvo abierto al aire.

Santuarios más antiguos, cuya dedicación es menos segura, eran del tipo micénico llamado «casas santuario».​ ​ 

Las excavaciones de Samos han descubierto ofrendas votivas, muchas de ellas de finales de los siglos VIII y VII aC., revelando que Hera no fue simplemente una diosa griega local del Egeo: el museo de Samos contiene figuras de dioses, rogativos y otras ofrendas votivas procedentes de Armenia, Babilonia, Irán, Asiria y Egipto, testimonio de la reputación que este santuario de Hera disfrutó y de la gran afluencia de peregrinos.

Aunque el mayor y más antiguo templo independiente dedicado a Hera fue el Hereo de Samos, en el continente griego fue especialmente adorada, como ‘Hera Argiva’ (Hera Argeia), en su santuario situado entre las antiguas ciudades-estado micénicas de Argos y Micenas, ​donde se celebraban en su honor unos festivales, las Hereas. «Tres son las ciudades que más quiero», declaraba la diosa celestial de ojos de buey: ​ «Argos, Esparta y Micenas, la de anchas calles».

Hubo también templos dedicados a Hera en Olimpia, Corinto, Tirinto, Peracora y la sagrada isla de Delos. En la Magna Grecia se construyeron dos templos dóricos a Hera en Paestum, sobre el 500 aC. y el 450 aC. Un de ellos, llamado durante mucho tiempo «Templo de Poseidón», fue identificado en los años 50 como un segundo templo de Hera.9​ ​

La importancia de Hera en el período más arcaico queda atestiguada por el gran número de edificaciones erigidas en su honor. Los templos de Hera en los dos centros principales de su culto, el Hereo de Samos y el Hereo de Argos en la Argólida, fueron los primeros templos monumentales construidos por los griegos, en el siglo VIII aC.

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