Why did Hera marry her brother Zeus?
After swallowing his first wife and raping his mother (the titaness Rhea) who tried to forbid him from marrying because of his excessive lust, Zeus pursued his sister Hera for three hundred years. Hera refused, being aware of his lustful nature. In the end he resorted to trickery, turning himself into a cuckoo with a broken wing. When Hera picked up the bird to comfort it, he turned back into Zeus and her. She married him out of shame at the . In fact, the of Hera represents the defeat of feminine concept of the supreme being by the male, which scholars believe happened when Aryans invaded the ancient Greeks and replaced Hera as the supreme being with Zeus
Why did Zeus marry Hera if she was his sister?
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Sorry if that's a little harsh I just got it off of Wikipedia:/
Wow after reading it, it does sound harsh..
And, as if you couldn't tell, the mythology of any culture is filled with really strange stuff. These are often ways in which humans tried to explain how the human race was started and who was in control (especially when humans felt things were out of control).
Exactly
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