Behind every crazy woman, there is a man who drives her crazy──The story of Hera, or Juno

Taiwan recently topped the international page again, this time with the lowest fertility rate. Taking it for granted has attracted many people to discuss it. Some people think it is the relationship between women's rights, some people think it is the relationship between this and that, and some think that they are a piece of meat. It is the woman's fault that women don't want him. Seeing this kind of speech, I couldn't help clapping my hands and admiring: Confidence is so good.

How attractive is the family to women?

If you read Greek mythology carefully, you will see the Greek interpretation of family and their customs at that time. The gods of Mount Olympus staged the xx family every day. Judging from today's dramas—whether it is a palace drama or a local drama—the main palace with the darkest heart and the hottest methods must be Hera, the queen of heaven.

How dark is Hera's heart, and how ruthless is her means?

Here's a brief rundown of her deeds:

When Zeus fell in love with Latona, who was also a god, and became pregnant in Latona, Hera ordered that Latona was not allowed to give birth in a place where the sun was shining. Zeus was forced to take action, and Latona was given birth on a floating island.

Zeus accidentally fell in love with Io, who is also a god. In order to have an affair, he made a few little dark clouds, intending to catch Hela's eyes. Hera pushed the clouds away, but saw Zeus with a beautiful white bull. The fine-hearted goddess immediately asked her husband to give her the cow and sent a hundred-eyed giant to guard her. When Io finally escaped from Hera's grasp, Hera sent a gadfly to torture Io.

Zeus was so annoyed that his wife was running around behind his ass, and when he was dating nymphs, he asked one of the nymphs, Echo, for help. Therefore, when Hera came to catch the adulterer, Ai could entangle Hera with soft words, so Zeus had a chance to get away easily. In a rage, Hera took away Aike's ability to speak, and made her speak only for echo.

Zeus thought, there is no grass beside the nest, but there are tens of millions of beauties in the world. He looked into the world, and there were beauties everywhere. His brother went to the human world happily, but he didn't know that his wife Hera was standing behind him, her eyes were on fire.

Zeus seduced the princess Semele of Thebes, and Hera turned into the princess' nanny and whispered to the princess: "Man wants clothes and God also wants them. This guy is dressed so plainly. How do you know this guy is Zeus? Maybe it's Zeus." Pretending.” Semeile did not doubt her, and proposed to her lover to see him in formal attire, but the god’s attire was unbearable for mortals, and Semeile was burned to ashes as soon as she saw the formal attire.

Zeus ran to seduce Callisto again, and Hera caught up immediately, and turned the beautiful girl into a big bear. The girl had already given birth to a child, and the child later became a hunter. Seeing the big bear, he mistakenly thought it was a gift from God, and at the moment he raised the arrow, Zeus quickly turned the boy into a little bear. He raised the two bears into the sky and turned them into constellations. But Hera is not a fuel-efficient lamp. When she sees her husband raising a love rival in the sky, she declares war, which one can bear and which cannot be tolerated! She also immediately ran to complain to her adoptive parents, the God of the Ocean, who loved her. From then on, the two bears could only cruise in the sky, but could not fall into the sea to rest.

Hera discovered that Queen Lamia of Libya had become her husband's mistress, and not only killed all her children, but even turned Lamia into a half-human, half-snake monster. The most ruthless thing was that Hera made Lamiya unable to sleep ever since! (It's really hard not to get depressed.)

For his newborn illegitimate son Hercules, Zeus fooled Hera, let Hercules eat a mouthful of Hera's milk, and became immortal from then on. Hera was furious and drove Herakles mad when he was growing up. He even sent twelve impossible tasks to be completed by Hercules one by one.

The plan to murder Hercules was not so simple, when Hercules was fighting Hydra, Hera created a large crab to attack him. Unexpectedly, Hercules lifted his foot and stepped on the crab to release the crab paste. Hera took pity on the big crab and raised it to the sky──the Cancer representing the family was born.

All in all, there are only two mistresses of Zeus who end well: Europa and Alcmena. Only these two escaped Hera's rule. But did Zeus love these two women? He transformed into a bull to seduce Europa, and took her to swim across the sea, away from home; Alcmena was very talented, and Zeus saw her in order to have a powerful fat boy with her——Hecules, so he Seriously fall in love with each other─for the child he is expecting.

So Hera would be so jealous, it must be that she had a romantic relationship with Zeus before marriage?

No.

As the sister of Zeus, Hera rejected Zeus's courtship at first, but this rare ㄓㄚ patient with impulsive lower body, took advantage of his god of weather, saying that when the wind blows, the rain will come. Zeus transforms into a drenched little cuckoo bird. Hera, who was looking for a shelter from the rain in the forest, saw the poor little Bugu bird, and stretched out her hand to hug the bird into her arms. At this time, Zeus returned to his original form, and—

raped her.

In shame and desperation, Hera married Zeus.

And how unwilling is she? There is a spring near Argos, where Hera bathed regularly to regain her virginity.

So Zeus must have been nice to Hera at home, so Hera was jealous?

No.

When Hera went too far, Zeus would roll up his sleeves and beat her up. Once Hera couldn't stand it anymore, and united with the gods on Mount Olympus to betray Zeus, but things backfired. After quelling the rebellion, Zeus hung Hera high, but Wushen dared to reach out to save her.

From the experience of Hera, let me think about the question at the beginning of the article:

What is it about the family that attracts women?

This goddess who represents family and marriage loyalty, many times we forget that she is sincerely loyal to marriage. It's not that beautiful she hasn't been pursued by anyone, but she still chooses to be loyal to this relationship, even if her husband is a jerk. Perhaps because she cannot divorce, she can only use jealousy to express the powerlessness and helplessness of women in marriage.

In the face of jealous women, the stories in this world are often a little mocking, not to mention that there were seven rules in ancient China, and jealousy was one of them. But when I was a child, I heard the story that Tang Taizong gave Fang Xuanling's wife poisoned wine because she forbade her husband to take a concubine: When Tang Taizong asked Lu to choose between taking a concubine or committing suicide by drinking poison, this heroine did not hesitate. She raised her head and toasted hesitantly—she drank a glass of vinegar, and since then jealousy has become synonymous with jealousy.

Looking at it now, this Ms. Lu who does not know if she was born in Qinghe, not to mention that Fang Xuanling respects and loves her so much, even me. She would rather die than share a little love with others. Miss Lu really understands that there is such a modern love in the classical era.

But Hera had no such good luck.

If a person is crazy, there must be a reason behind it. In the heterosexual world, when a woman goes crazy, it is often because there is a man or society behind her who drives her crazy. After all, it is not easy to kill a man, but to kill a woman, sometimes only the mouth is enough.

As a certain villain archetype in mythology, Hera needs to leave more than Nora. I always think that this society is a little bit more advanced than it was two thousand years ago, but sometimes I am deeply convinced by that sentence: myths are everyone's dreams. Dreams are the seedlings planted in the unconscious darkness of the human heart. I believe in the function of the family, but I also feel that if I don’t talk about other things, just talk about the uneven division of labor in the family, let alone having children, even the desire to have sex is gone.

Especially in this double salary era.

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Back to herbs.

Among the representatives of Hera, one of them is a pomegranate.

In ancient times, pomegranate also had the meaning of having many sons and grandchildren. When the Egyptian goddess Hathor transformed into the bloodthirsty Eye of Ra, the sun god Ra used pomegranate juice to calm Hathor's anger. The record of pomegranate is also often seen in the Bible, which has the meaning of abundance if it has many seeds. In traditional Chinese medicine, pomegranate peel can be used to stop dysentery and diarrhea, but its fruit is sweet and sour, and eating too much can hurt teeth.

As one of the ancient fruits in Eurasia, pomegranate is not only delicious, but also nutritious. In modern times, pomegranate seed oil can be extracted as vegetable oil. I used to put a little bit in the face oil, and the skin was soft and plump during that time. But because of the high price, it can only be used to adjust the oil, but not edible...

In Europe, you can also see pomegranates adorning the walls of wealthy families. Presumably, they hope that the family will be rich and have many children and grandchildren.

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One more mouth.

Breast milk is sprayed into the Milky Way, and there is such a narrative in Egyptian mythology. Let’s talk about her next time.