CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hieros Gamos, Eileithyia
2 Mar 2017
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Hera: great lady (from the feminine form of hero or from hora : season, tittles. Ox eyed hera: sign of beauty or reacted to connection of cows. White armed hera: status thing, women stayed in the house and they stayed white: the marriage of hera and zeus. Zeus wooed hera in the form of a cuckoo bird. The bird falls of the tree and is hurt. Hera picks him up and hold him to her breast. When a goddess removes her veil, it means she has accepted to have sex: their wedding gift from gaia. Planted at the garden of the west. Guarded by the hesperides nymphs and the snake. The symbols of earth representing the earth, regeneration: the story of io of argos. Hera found out about them and turned her into a cow. She got argos to guard the cow. Argos had 100 eyes so he is perfect to guard io.
