The shocking truth about Hera | Greek mythology
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- čas přidán 26. 09. 2022
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Was Hera once more powerful that Zeus himself? SPOILER ALERT:
This video explores a fascinating theory that the goddess Hera from Greek mythology was originally a powerful Earth goddess before being forcibly taken to Mount Olympus by Zeus and partially stripped of her powers by becoming an Olympic god as well as his wife and queen. It would certainly explain why Hera has reputation for being so unhappy and vengeful all the time. Discover the shocking truth of the goddess Hera in this video!
This might be connected to a real life invasion of the old European lands by a warrior culture from the North starting in the Neolithic era and into the Bronze Age (see Kurgan Hypothesis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_....
I based the video on research from several sources, but found this thesis by Katherine Lynch entitled "The Domestication of Hera" particularly useful and riveting:
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So excited to talk about Hera because I thinks she's probably the most myth-understood of all the gods and goddesses in Greek myth. What are your thoughts?!
Hera is a great example of a view I have that the Divines have to be interpreted on three different levels: mythological, ritual, and conceptual. In the myths, Hera is not portrayed in a positive light, however through the archaeological record we know that ritually speaking she was incredibly popular and loved, which seems in contrast to Hera in the myths. From the conceptual standpoint, we look at the greater archetypal concepts embodied by Hera through which we can extrapolate modern meaning. With this perspective, one may argue that Hera is the goddess of social order. My reasoning for this is that marriage is the foundation of social order. Marriage leads to children and then family which leads to clans, tribes, and nations. Using this same conceptual approach, the goddess of the nation-state, the modern equivalent to the Greek polis, is Athena, who according to the mythology is Hera's best friend and, in Roman myths, her daughter. So there is a demonstration of this chain from institution of marriage to the nation-state exemplified in Hera to Athena.
Hate to be that guy but I think you're mispronouncing her name
@Hammond: Her name can be pronounced both ways in English (Hear-uh or Hair-uh). The way I pronounce it is closer to the Greek (eee-ra), which is what I usually go for.
#Tiny Epics. You are 100% correct! ✔️
@@TinyEpics I highly recommend the video "Pronouncing "Caesar" wrong...?!" on the polyMathy channel.
Another awesome video. This one might be my favorite! They really did Hera dirty in Greek mythology. What a beautiful presentation of Hera. 👏
Thanks so much! I really feel like she is completely misunderstood and hope I did her justice. Glad you enjoyed it!
omg yes love hera thnx so much for your greek myth videos!
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you for this perspective into the history!
Lovely video, refreshing perspective, informative, creative, and fascinating!
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Looking forward to what comes next.
Thanks so much, my friend! Your comments always bring a smile to my face. Excited to share the upcoming videos with you.
Another Great Video!! It brought a new layer to Hera that I did not realize was there! Great work!
Aww thank you very much. I also learned so much about her I never knew before when making this video. Do you have any requests for upcoming videos by the way?
@@TinyEpics Demeter is top of my list!
Also I'd love to see you make one about the Anemoi, Pan, or Morpheus
Ohhh yes I think then Demeter will be next. I would love to dive deeper into her mythology. I talked about her and Persephone briefly in my tour of the Kerameikos area of Athens which you can see here if you haven’t yet:
czcams.com/video/doBypwsSuvI/video.html
Thanks for the suggestions!
My personal theory is derived from Hera being described often with cow imagery, so she may have been originally a cattle goddess. We see in many Indo-European cultures cattle used as dowries and this link between cattle and marriage may have led to Hera becoming the goddess of marriage.
Interesting… and makes sense. I remember in the epics how she was often called “Cow-eyed Hera”. Never thought of that being linked to dowries. Also would fit in with the idea of a goddess who was originally wilder and grander being domesticated into a lesser goddess after the waves of Indo-European invasions proposed by Marija Gimbutas in the Kurgan Hypothesis. Can expand on these ideas perhaps in another episode!
@@TinyEpics It's all just speculation on my part with no substantial proof, but I find the origins and evolution of the Divines fascinating. For example, the video mentions the Hellenization of Hera. Something similar may have happened with a native goddess Metis being transformed into the Greek goddess Athena via Zeus. Also, when we see how the Divines teamed-up in the Iliad, the Divines with Eastern origins joined Troy, like Aphrodite, Apollo, and Artemis, while those with Western origins supported the Myceneans. It's not a perfect division, but enough to pique some curiosity. So one wonders to what degree historical and political events formed the Divines.
Thank you so much! This is brilliant!
I’m so pleased you enjoyed the Hera video! Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave your lovely comment. Much more content to come!
I’m always amazed at your artistry and dedication to your subject. Hera shares some similarities to my story. We were both abducted-she to Olympus and myself to Hades. And the pomegranate is sacred to us both. ❤
Thank you P. This truly means a great deal to me. I want to make a whole video featuring your story and abduction by Hades soon!
Nice point of view for Hera History. I would like to hear the end of the story that tells how a human appropriated Persephone's name to comment on CZcams as if she were the Goddess herself.
Proserpina, In mana tes erecta sortem in magnas Core das uma vita. Privas dimetrus itme dorsa am Lunaris. 🌑
As I researched Hera for the video and found her connection to the pomegranate, it made me realize how often the goddesses overlap one another in their stories, almost as if they are all like fractals of an original, overarching Earth mother with powers over life and death (the resurrection aspect connected to their Chthonic/Underworld aspects).
Hopefully your absence wont produce to cool a winter . Im sure your mother will miss you
@@TinyEpics ...may I kindly bring to your attention the story of the Babylonian Ishtar - same story as Persephone - and actually the original one. Greek lore has its origins in the Babylonian pantheon, and later syncretized.
Great content!
Thank you very much! 😊
Great video! Do Ares next, the worst god of war.
Thanks! Yes, I will definitely get to Ares at some point. Stay tuned!
Hera or Juno is Leto the main wife of Zeus. The history modified by the reptilians confuses Hera with Ceres or Demeter the wife of Poseidon. The planet is ruled by Marduk or Mars or Ares the son of Ceres and Poseidon and that is why nothing bad is said about Ceres or Demeter but about Juno or Leto or Hera who is the mother of Apollo, the great enemy of Ares.
Thank you so so much @Tiny epics for giving me a bright idea through this video of yours. A similar happenstance or many i would say , happens in Hindu mythology too where an earlier earth based goddess cult is subdued and converted into ritualistic god worship where from a great queen of the land, she becomes a mere wife and subjugated to his enormous grace and weird thing is the myths and stories are twisted in such a way so as to show that she is fine , more than fine with it and feels that she is lucky to have him as her husband.
Please @Tiny epics , suggest me excellent books of Chthonic and Pre-european deities that reigned supreme over the world.
I genuinely believe that these deities were based on every continent and were systematically wiped out by excellent means.
I really enjoyed reading “Goddesses” by Joseph Campbell and also “The Language of the Goddess” by Marija Gimbutas!
And many thanks for your thoughtful and kind response! I’m so pleased you got something out my presentation of Hera.
@@TinyEpics Hi, how about you do a video on Nyx... The most mysterious goddess. Find out more about her than the usual she is feared by Zeus, mother of Hypnos blah blah blah.
Infact how about a small series on The Greek Primordials, the first 5 original ones - Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus, Nyx and Eros
Love the suggestion about Nyx and will fit her in at some point. If you didn’t see it yet, I briefly went through some of the first gods in my adaptation of the first part of Hesiod’s Theogony here:
czcams.com/video/jR04wWmk5sA/video.html
@@TinyEpics I have already seen this video. Liked it very much👍. But it is the normal Hesiod Theogony. Take your time but I would like some deep research into these Primordials. I think the stories of these 5 and also of the Titans have been hushed under the carpet and just Olympians have been glorified throughout. Just like you found out Hera had an even pre-greek cult and Aphrodite had eastern connections, same for these deities. They were ,earlier, very very important but later on superceded by the Olympians so much so that barely anybody knows any story of them.
It a wonderful painting.
Agreed. I love the boldness and the warmth. It has a kind of glow to it.
I wish to chill like that during summer. Alone .
Hehe! Do it! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment ❤
Which goddess or god next
Hi! I have Demeter at the top of my list. Do you have a favorite you’d like to see featured next?
@@TinyEpics yes Persephone and selene and nxys
Awesome suggestions. They have been added to my list. I planned for Persephone but didn’t have Selene or Nyx planned yet!
I believe in sparta thier was a holy day or festival once a year when spartan women dreesed like the image in the painting.
Oh, I didn’t know that! Makes sense though since Sparta is one of Hera’s towns.
@@TinyEpics it was .
Hera & Zeus never had children. How is that possible? Zeus could spray his semen on rocks and get an heir, but with Hera? Nothing? they were incompatible, then...
Well I suppose some of the poets attribute a few gods such as Ares and Hebe as children of Zeus and Hera. But strikingly, Zeus has Athena through parthenogenesis and Hera does the same out of spite and has Hephaestus. Very incompatible, according to many other poets.
@@TinyEpics Stupid of me! I've forgotten about their offspring: Hares, the disgraceful God of war, and Hephestus, the misshapen God of metallurgy. knew it, but at the moment... I checked on my books ( Yes! I m a worshipper of printed paper) and I found that not only they procreated mythological characters but also that Hera had children with unknown fathers! They were Gods for nothing! Their sexuality was almost never barren...
Plus, she was THE fertility Goddess