
Episode 29: Hera: The Queen of Gods - (Greek Mythology Explained
Mythology & Fiction Explained
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The Eye Pattern Found on Peacocks
When hera found out about leto being pregnant with artemus and apollo, she made sure that as long as leto was on the mainland, she couldn't give birth. The goddess of childbirth and her own daughter, elethea, was forbidden from offering assistance. Dionysus is another olympian who was almost never born because of hera. When she discovered a woman named semile was pregnant with the child of zeus, she disguised herself in order to stop him showing his true appearance. Zeus then had the unborn child sewn into his own thigh. Tirasius gave tirasius the gift of prophecy to make up for his loss of sight during an
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