Editing Hera (section)

===Youth===
Hera was most known as the matron goddess, ''Hera Teleia'', but she presided over weddings as well. In myth and cult, fragmentary references and archaic practices remain of the [[sacred marriage]] of Hera and Zeus.<ref name=Farnell191>Farnell, Cults I 191-193</ref> At [[Plataea]], there was a sculpture of Hera seated as a bride by [[Callimachus]], as well as the matronly standing Hera.<ref>Pausanias, [http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+9.2.1 9.2.7- 9.3.3] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106170825/http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+9.2.1 |date=2015-11-06 }}; Pausanias explains this by telling the myth of the [[Daedala]].</ref>

Hera was also worshipped as a [[virgin]]: there was a tradition in [[Stymphalus (Arcadia)|Stymphalia]] in [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]] that there had been a [[Triple Goddess (Neopaganism)|triple shrine]] to Hera the Girl (Παις [Pais]), the Adult Woman (Τελεια [Teleia]), and the Separated (Χήρη [Chḗrē] 'Widowed' or 'Divorced').<ref>Farnell, I 194, citing Pausanias [http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+8.22.1 8.22.2] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106170827/http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+8.22.1|date=2015-11-06}}' [[Pindar]] refers to the "praises of Hera Parthenia [the Maidenly]" ''[[Olympian ode]]'' [http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Pind.+O.+6.1 6.88] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106170829/http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Pind.+O.+6.1|date=2015-11-06}}</ref> In the [[Argolis|region around Argos]], the temple of Hera in [[Ermioni|Hermione]] near Argos was to Hera the Virgin.<ref>S. Casson: "Hera of Kanathos and the Ludovisi Throne" ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'' '''40'''.2 (1920), pp. 137-142, citing [[Stephanus of Byzantium]] ''sub'' ''Ernaion''.</ref> At the spring of [[Kanathos]], close to [[Nauplia]], Hera renewed her virginity annually, in rites that were not to be spoken of (''arrheton'').<ref name=Paus2381>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+2.38.1 2.38.2-3] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106170831/http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+2.38.1 |date=2015-11-06 }}.</ref> In her fire-festival [[Daedala]] at [[Plataia]] the puppet of the goddess was bathed in the river Asopos before the wedding ceremony. In the festival "Toneia" at [[Samos]] the image of the goddess was purified, bounted in willows and then probably hanged on a tree.<ref name=Obrian54>O'Brian Joan (1993), "The transformation of Hera" , [https://books.google.com/books?id=a77yKM26GfYC&pg=PA54 p.54-55]</ref> [[Robert Graves]] interprets this as a representation of the new moon ([[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]]), full moon (Hera), and old moon ([[Hecate]]), respectively personifying the Virgin (Spring), the Mother (Summer), and the destroying Crone (Autumn).<ref>[[Robert Graves]] (1955), ''[[The Greek Myths]]''.</ref><ref>[[Barbara G. Walker]] (1983), ''The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets'', p.392 {{ISBN|0-06-250925-X}}</ref>