Editing Hera (section)

===Mycenean Greece===
An inscription in [[Linear B]] on a tablet found at [[Pylos]]  mentions offerings "to Zeus-Hera-Drimios".(Drimios is the son of Zeus) .<ref>Burkert (1985), "Greek religion", p.43,45: [https://books.google.gr/books? id=sxurBtx6shoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false p.43,45]</ref> Hera was the tutelary goddess of Argos and it is possible that she had Mycenean origin.<ref name=Elder/> [[Martin P. Nilsson]] suggested that Hera is mainly the "Argeiē" (Ἀργείη), a name given by Homer<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+4.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134 Iliad 4.8]</ref> which describes her not as Greek, but as an [[Argive]] goddess. She is the protectress of the citadel.<ref name= NilssonA>, "Geschichte", Vol I, pp. 350,428</ref> In literature [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] is called "dōma Hēras" (the house of Hera)<ref>Aeschylus :Suppliant Maedens, 297</ref> and the Argives are called her people by [[Pindar]].<ref name=Farnell194/> Homer in [[Iliad]] uses the formula "boōpis [[potnia]] Hērē)" (cow-eyed, mistress Hera), which probably relates her to a form of the Mediterranean goddess of nature.<ref name=OBrien49>O'Brian Joan(1993) "The transformation of Hera"  [https://books.google.com/books?id=a77yKM26GfYC&pg=PA49 p.49]</ref><ref name=Dietrich178/> The epithet Qo-wi-ja ( boōpis) appears in a [[Linear B]] inscription.<ref>{{cite book|last=Chadwick|first=John|author-link=John Chadwick|title=The Mycenaean World|location=Cambridge, UK|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1976|isbn=978-0-521-29037-1|url=https://archive.org/details/mycenaeanworld00chad|url-access=registration}} p.95</ref> [[Walter Burkert]] notices that it is difficult to confirm that the epithet "bowpis" corresponds to a Greek belief.<ref>Burkert (1985), "Greek religion": [https://books.google.com/books?id=sxurBtx6shoC p. 64]</ref> However it is possible that  Hera was conceived as a cow in her archaic cults.<ref name=Dietrich178/><ref name=West184/>