Talk:Hera
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[Hardly Zeus' better half...] - [Clearly a man's point of view...]
Maybe. Zeus was far from a model husband (though what god was?) but even so Hera never struck me as particularly nice. "My three favorite cities are Sparta, Mycenae, and Tyrins...destroy one whenever you want, so long as I see Troy burn to the ground." That'll learn someone for not calling her pretty. Not that the other gods are much better...but this much can be said for Zeus: sometimes he's smart enough to keep his mouth shut.
- "Consort" might sound a little arty, but it eliminates "wifely" connotations, which then can be examined separately. --Wetman 21:26, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
--- "She was called Juno by the Romans." Bull finch! How well would we accept the following similar statement at Mithras: "He was called Christ by the Christians." Can we find a more nuanced way to express correlation here? (Wetman, with a wasp in his hat) --- The Crow. I have eliminated a reference to a crow associated with Hera. Was this an error? My error perhaps? --Wetman 21:26, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Anonymous "Disagreement": an etymology riff moved from the page text
Disagreement:'The name Hera is cognate with Hero meaning "guardian protector", to wit, the guardian and protector of marriage and the nuclear family. Greek rooted words like hero, hieroglyph, aristocracy, and church are related to the Germanic harry, harass, earl, and iron (Germanic eishern) as well as the (satem) Sanskrit sura, all of which reflect the nature and extent of Aryan cultural influence. (Anonymous User:66.63.133.139)
" Hera was also an alternate name for Elara, a moon of Jupiter." Was it ever published under this "alternative" name? --Wetman 00:05, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)