deity
Hera
A Greek goddess of marriage and of Argos, often shown with a peacock in later art. The bird is a later attribute, not a Vedic peacock-theology.
Hellenic religion
Hera is associated with Peacock.
Later Greek and Roman art gives Hera the peacock. Ovid tells Argus’s eyes on the bird’s tail; that is poetry’s aetiology, not Indian peafowl cult.
from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE
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Hera belongs to Hellenic religion.
Hera is a Greek goddess of Argos and of marriage in the poems. She is not a peacock-spirit of later India.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE; Walter Burkert · Greek Religion, 1977 German; 1985 English
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Hera appears in Hellenic religion.
The Iliad seats Hera among the Olympian speakers who favor the Achaeans, including the deception of Zeus. A named Hera in that epic, not Juno as a Roman flatten and not every later marriage-goddess dump.
from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)
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Peacock is sacred to Hera.
The same pairing. A South Asian bird in a Mediterranean garden-story.
from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE
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Apples of the Hesperides is sacred to Hera.
Hesiod’s Theogony gives Hera the Hesperides as keepers of her golden apples. A named fruit of that goddess, not the Golden Fleece, and not the Golden Bough.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Veil is sacred to Hera.
Iliad 14 has Hera dress and veil herself before the deception of Zeus, among the goddess’s own adornment. A named veil of Hera in that epic, not a generic bridal veil dump and not every later wedding-veil use.
from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)
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sources
- Metamorphoses · Ovid
Ovid, Metamorphoses.
- Theogony · Hesiod
Hesiod, Theogony.
- Greek Religion · Walter Burkert
Walter Burkert, Greek Religion.
- Iliad · Homer
Homer, Iliad.