Hey, . Pssh! Who could be frightened of me?

You look Oh! ! beautiful today, Hera.

As beautiful as the day I Oh, please, first saw you. spare me!

You frightened me! Come with me, Hera, be my queen

I’ve seen you, Zeus.

I’ve seen you with so many others. Why should I wish , , to be just another , name on that list?

W-What?

What use is a queen to one such as you?

5 Or maybe that is a Which made him question better asked want her all of ? I notice we the more. haven’t seen much of her lately.

For the first time since he became the Lord of the Universe, Zeus wanted something he couldn’t have.

So he attempted with gifts… to woo Hera. With flattery…

with deeds . . .

6 7 And still she refused him. And Zeus grew angry.

Chirup chirrup

chirp chirp

chirp

Oh, you poor thing!

You’re soaked to the skin!

6 7 That big baby Zeus’s oh. temper tantrum Come inside has left you half- for a while drowned! and dry out a

Hera.

I humbly ask you, In all the world, I am the Lord of on bended knee, there is nothing all creation, but Hera… I have wanted as without you, it much as I want means nothing. you.

Be my Queen.

Zeus, I… Since the moment I cannot I first laid eyes deny it. upon you, I have Rrrgh! felt this.

Yes, I have felt it too.

But I know what sort of god you And I know you are, Zeus. I know. feel it too.

8 9 I will agree I’ve seen how to be your you treat your Queen. Queens!

urk!

But you won’t just make me You’ll make And when I your Queen. me your Wife! catch you with And all that another woman, entails. so help me…

And so it was that Zeus got what he most desired.

and quite a bit more as well.

Gods and Goddesses, All of Creation turned and , centaurs and out for the Wedding satyrs, Gigantes and of Zeus and Hera. (for, (those not imprisoned), even after all, it was the the peculiar creatures called first Wedding. None of humans. (for in those days, the Zeus’s previous Queens Olympians still moved among had needed a Wedding.) the inhabitants of Earth.)

The bridesmaids of Hera bound her hair, to symbolize her passing from maiden to bride.

8 9 Hera and Zeus stood before the assembled hordes of creation and exchanged their vows.

As they looked into each other’s eyes, they both knew what was to come.

Once they were wed, all of creation erupted into celebration.

There were many gifts. The Titaness (or was it Gaea, the Mother Earth, for it was not always easy to distinguish the two) gave the most exquisite:

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