A Candid Interview with Hera, Goddess, Mother and Wife of Zeus

Welcome back everyone! This is your faithful Reporter Bast Felinius reporting to you live today here from cloudy Mount Olympus. It has been quiet a climb to reach this place and it did appear a bit quieter then usual when I arrived, but I am not Bast for nothing. I soon got the scent of her and here she is the glorious Hera.

Hera sits in her usual seat, near the window so she can look down on earth. A slide frown is creasing her otherwise beautiful made up Face. Well she isn't a goddess for nothing.

Hera, you are a Goddess in your own right, the Wife of Zeus, a Mother and some might even say the Patron Goddess of all mothers.

Hera only nods her head slowly and gives Bast a penetrating stare; she knows there is more to come, but wisely waits. Why give more away then necessary?

But Hera, this is not all you are, is it? It is rumored that you are also Zeus Sister! Is there any truth to that Rumor? Bast looks almost innocently at Hera, trying hard not to flip her little rough tongue over her lips. These Cat and Mouse games always excite her.

Hera gives Bast that look that normally makes others beg for mercy, but our Reporter just sits with her Pencil poised eagerly over the Paper. At long last Hera speaks.

"Yes, Bast that is true. Zeus and I are the Children of Cronus and Rhea. Both very famous Titans who where husband and wife as well as brother and sister. I guess you could say we take loving ones family very serious.

Was Cronus a loving father? What a bout your Mother and Grandmother?
At this Hera gives an emphatic; HA! After a few seconds of composure she explains.

Sure, Bast, Cronus was such a loving Father that he swallowed us all up shortly after we were born. Guess, you could say I couldn't bear to be parted from us. That is ok; he got his in the end. Was a careful sort, that Cronus and brutal. He was just scared that we would do to him, what he did to his Father Uranus, but I am sure you are familiar with that old story. Anyway, Mother and Grandmother, were good hearted but a bit slow. It took them until Zeus came along to finally take some action. Who knows, maybe he was their favorite (at that Hera gets a bit of a green tint to her face) but they did trick the old so and so.

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