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Title: Manual of mythology : Greek and Roman, Norse, and old German, Hindoo and Egyptian mythology
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904
Subjects: Mythology
Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ens that appeared to be of a male order.To their marriage was traced all the blessings of nature, andwhen they met, as on Mount Ida in a golden cloud, sweetfragrant floweis sprang up around them. A tree with goldenapples grew up at their marriage feast, and stre.mis of ambro-sia flowed past their couch in the happy island of the west.That marriage ceremony took place, it was believed, in spring,and to keep up a recollection of it, an annual festi\al was heldat that season in her honour. Like the sudden and ^-iolentstorms, however, which in certain seasons break the peaceful-ness of the sky of Greece, the meetings of this divine pairoften resulted in temporary quarrels and wrangling, the blameof which was usually traced to Hera; poets, and most of allHomer, in the Iliad, describing her as frequently jealous,angrv, and quarrelsome, her character as lofty and proud,cold, and not free from bitterness. Of these scenes of discordwe have several instances, as when (Uiad i. 5S6) Zeus actually
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Hera, or Juno. .vi HERA OR JUNO. 47 beat her, and threw her son Hephaetos out of Olympos; or(Iliad XV. 18) when, vexed at her plotting against Herakles,he hung her out of Olympos with two great weights (earthand sea) attached to her feet, and her arms bound by goldenfetters—an illustration of how all the phenomena of the visiblesky were thought to hang dependent on the highest god ofheaven; or again (Iliad i. 396) when Hera, with Poseidonand Athene, attempted to chain down Zeus, and would havesucceeded had not Thetis brought to his aid the sea giantAegaeon. As goddess of storms, Hera was consistently de-scribed as the mother of Ares, herself taking part in war occa-sionally, as against the Trojans, and enjoying the honour offestivals, accompanied by warlike contests, as at Argos, wherethe prize was a sacred shield. Her favourite companions, in periods of peace, were theCharites (Graces) and the Horae (Seasons), of which thelatter are also found in company of her husband. Her con-sta

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