Hera Statue Father Here the goddess tends her

Here the goddess tends her sacred fire with shamrock symbols and an oak leaf from her Kildare or Church under the Oak

displaying her sexual parts was believed to ward off evil

Every curve of her pose reveals her loving concern for all life

with a moon disk above

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Hera Statue Father Here the goddess tends herQueen of the Gods. Regal and powerful, she holds a flowering apple branch from her western orchard of immortality. Romans worshipped her as Juno. Amazon priestesses fought for matriarchy in Hera's name as recently as the time of Herodotus (450 BCE). As Goddesses everywhere lost power, Hera was forced into marriage with Zeus, but retained her position as Queen of the Gods. Her name is from the Aegean Greek for "Lady" or "Holy One." [From a Greek