Hera - Juno
Hera is the goddess of women, marriage, family, and childbirth in ancient Greek religion and myth, one of the Twelve Olympians and the sister and wife of Zeus. She is the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Hera rules over Mount Olympus as queen of the gods. A matronly figure, Hera served as both the patroness and protectress of married women, presiding over weddings and blessing marital unions. One of Hera's defining characteristics is her jealous and vengeful nature against Zeus' numerous lovers and illegitimate offspring, as well as the mortals who cross her.
Hera is commonly seen with the animals she considers sacred, including the cow, lion and the peacock. Portrayed as majestic and solemn, often enthroned, and crowned with the polos (a high cylindrical crown worn by several of the Great Goddesses), Hera may hold a pomegranate in her hand, emblem of fertile blood and death and a substitute for the narcotic capsule of the opium poppy.
Hera - Juno Stamp Collection
Netherland 1992 In Roman mythology, Moneta was a title given to two separate goddesses: the goddess of memory (identified with the Greek goddess Mnemosyne) and an epithet of Juno, called Juno Moneta
Crete 1900 Hera in didrachma coin from Sybrita in Crete
Greece 1986 The name Hera means 'beautiful lady'
Armenia 2006 rembrandt - juno
circa 1662-1665
Sierra leone 2003 rembrandt - juno
circa 1662-1665
Rembrandt portrayed his wife as Yunona Saskia. Juno is the Roman goddess of marriage and birth, the motherhood of women and the feminine productive force. Patroness of marriages, guardian of family and family rulings. The main attribute of this goddess is the veil, diadem, peacock and cuckoo. Rembrandt has a peacock in the lower left corner of the picture.
When Hercules was a baby, his father, Zeus, let him suckle on his divine wife Hera's milk when she was asleep, an act which would endow the baby with godlike qualities. When Hera woke up and realized that she was breastfeeding an unknown infant, she pushed him away and the spurting milk became the Milky Way.
Paraguay 1977 The Origin of the milkey way by Rubens
Bhutan1991 The Origin of the milkey way by Rubens (the block)
Bhutan1991 The Origin of the milkey way by Rubens (the stamp)
The Origin of the Milky Way, or The Birth of the Milky Way, is a painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, featuring the Greco-Roman myth of the origin of the Milky Way. The painting depicts Hera (Juno), spilling her breast milk, the infant Heracles (Hercules) and Zeus (Jupiter) in the background, identifiable by his eagle and lightning bolts. Hera's face is modelled on Rubens' wife, Hélène Fourment. The carriage is pulled by Hera's favourite animals, peacocks. Due to the dark background of the night sky the figures gain a greater sense of volume.
Paraguay 1975 The Origin of the Milky Way is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance master
Jacopo Tintoretto, in the National Gallery, London, formerly in the Orleans Collection. It is an oil painting on canvas, and dates from ca.1575–1580.
GUYANA 1993 The Origin of the milkey way by Rubens
Greece 1967 Hera's temple in Olympia
Liberia 1997 Hera's temple in Olympia
Greece 1961 The Heraion in Olympia
It is at the altar of this temple, which is oriented east-west, that the Olympic flame is lit and carried to all parts of the world. The torch of the Olympic flame is lit in its ruins to this day.The temple was built in approximately 590 BC, but was destroyed by an earthquake in the early 4th century CE.
The Heraion, or Temple of Hera, is the oldest sacred building in the Sanctuary of Olympia.
It was built in the mid VIIth century BC, while an initial restoration dates back to c. 600 BC.
The Heraion is a Doric peripteral temple, with six columns across the back and front and sixteen down the long sides; the pronaos and opisthodomos are distyle in antis (ie they had two columns on the facade in between the ends of the walls); the base of the cell was in stone and the elevated parts in rough brickwork.
Greece 1980 Hera's temple in Samos
A picture of Hera's temple in Samos
The Heraion of Samos was a large sanctuary to the goddess Hera, on the island of Samos, Greece, 6 km southwest of the ancient city of Samos (modern Pythagoreion), in the low, marshy basin of the Imbrasos river, near where it enters the sea. The late Archaic temple in the sanctuary was the first of the gigantic free-standing Ionic temples, but its predecessors at this site reached back to the Geometric Period of the 8th century BC or earlier.The site of temple's ruins, with its sole standing column, was designated a joint UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the nearby Pythagoreion in 1992.
France 2007 Statue of a goddess, probably Juno, restored as Urania. Marble, 2nd century AD (nose, mouth, neck, arms and feet are modern restorations).
The statue in the louvre museum