# Hera, Queen Of The Gods--peacocks?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 15, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062 "2011-11-15T23:18:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/1 "2011-11-15T23:18:26Z")
Is the Goddess Hera _associated with/symbolized by_ peacocks?
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/2 "2011-11-15T23:21:30Z")
Yes. Apparently she had a chariot drawn by peacocks. I don’t think that chariot would get you anywhere in a hurry.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/3 "2011-11-15T23:21:41Z")
Even in Greek myth there are different origin stories for how peacocks came to be, but most center around a multi-eyed monster named Argos. Hera figures in [one of those](http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/GiganteArgosPanoptes.html).
Trivia: Flannery O’Connor named two of her pea hens Hera and Juno due to the connection.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/4 "2011-11-15T23:21:57Z")
Somebody else has been reading Wonder Woman?
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/5 "2011-11-16T05:57:17Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> Somebody else has been reading Wonder Woman?
Lol! That’s what I came in to post!
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/6 "2011-11-16T22:36:54Z")
No, I saw some amateur artists draw her with peacocks, & I wondered.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/7 "2011-11-16T23:09:30Z")
Peacocks are often associated with the country of Persia. Did the concept of Hera have a foreign, eastern origin?
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/8 "2011-11-17T02:18:46Z")
> [@Alessan](#):
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> Peacocks are often associated with the country of Persia. Did the concept of Hera have a foreign, eastern origin?
In Persia they were sacred to the god [Tammuz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammuz_(deity)) (husband of Anat and former lover of Ishtar).
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/9 "2011-11-17T02:36:41Z")
hera’s peacock, athena’s owl, and aphrodite’s dove.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/10 "2011-11-17T03:11:41Z")
And Jerry Mather is the Beaver.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/11 "2011-11-17T15:14:40Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> In Persia they were sacred to the god [Tammuz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammuz_(deity)) (husband of Anat and former lover of Ishtar).
Hence the Peacock Throne: [Peacock Throne - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacock_throne)
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/12 "2011-11-17T21:49:29Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> And Jerry Mather is the Beaver.
Barbara Billingsley was not a Goddess.
Mary Tyler Moore, _maybe_.
But not Barbara.
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### Author:  [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hera-queen-of-the-gods-peacocks/603062/13 "2011-11-17T22:20:57Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> Barbara Billingsley was not a Goddess.
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> Mary Tyler Moore, _maybe_.
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> But not Barbara.
Domestic Goddess! No?