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the immortals: hera

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hera, queen of the gods, was forced by the titans to marry her brother zeus. it was not, to put it mildly, a happy marriage.

 

once, in a fit of rage against one of zeus' many indiscretions, hera banded together with the other gods and planned to kill him. (although just how you kill an immortal god is not well explained)

 

they kidnapped him while he was sleeping and tied him in a rope using one hundred knots. other gods realized that Zeus was missing, found him and freed him. all the gods who had kidnapped zeus begged for mercy. all, except hera., who in righteous indignation refused to apologize.

 

for this act, her punishment was to be hung by her ankles from the sky with heavy gold chains.

 

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