More Good Resources for Study of Hera

This has illustrations, photos, and a couple of papers to read.

http://webpage. pace.edu/ nreagin/F2005WS2 67/AmyChing/ Stepmother. html

Theoi.com is great for all Greek religio-mythic research.
http://www.theoi. com/Olympios/ Hera.html

A student-friendly site:
http://students. ou.edu/G/ Lindsay.J. Grimm-1/intro. html

Not much new or different, but a good group to check out online:
http://www.neokoroi .org/gods. htm

Look for the Etruscan Uni - pictures and text available.
Also note that the etruscan script is very much like what the magic & witch books call "Theban alphabet".
http://www.mysterio usetruscans. com/

This site explores Etruscan/Greek myth commonalities, and has illistrations that include the Etruscan Thetis:
http://www.maravot. com/Translation_ ShortScripts_ c.html

A site for Thetis!
http://www.mlahanas .de/Greeks/ Mythology/ Thetis.html

Iliad site:
http://www.uark. edu/campus- resources/ achilles/ iliad/iliad. html

Calendar - origin of June?
http://www.wordinfo .info/words/ index/info/ view_unit/ 3193/?letter= a&page=1& spage=1&s= past

A wonderful site loaded with images from rthe Classical world.
Scroll down the list 0 it is worth it!
http://www.vroma. org/images/ mcmanus_images/ index10.html

This ceramic head has a few chips missing but retains nice portraiture. Note the crown/diadem with flowers:
http://www.vroma. org/images/ mcmanus_images/ juno_scasato. jpg

Juno Moneta, patroness of money, finance, teh mint, etc.:
http://www.britishm useum.org/ explore/highligh ts/highlight_ objects/cm/ s/silver_ denarius_ showing_juno_ m.aspx

Photos of coins with Juno on them - some obverse, others reverse.
http://www.aeqvitas .com/photo. php?freeform= sid

This is the last item for today, tying in to the full moon on wednesday, which is also the last lunar eclipse of the year:

"FEASTS AND RITUALS FOR HERA

In honor of the three phases of Hera, the ancient residents of Greece celebrated the Heraea, a competitive festival that dates to earlier times than the Olympics. Every four years - and later, on the full moon of August, every year - women came to a field near Hera's town of Argos for the 160 yard races. They ran bare-breasted and with hair unbound, in three age groups to honor the goddess' s three stages. There were three winners, each receiving identical olive crowns and a share in the cow sacrificed at the festival. Each winner had the right to leave a statuette of herself in Hera's shrine.

Hera's other great festival was her annual. Her worshipers bathed her image, renewing her youth and preparing her again for the seasonal cycle of vegetative maturation and death. Carrying the goddess's statue to the water to cleanse the winter from her marked how they, like the earth, would forever be reborn. Unfortunately, the date for his ritual has been lost, although it would make symbolic sense if the renewal celebration were held in spring. As goddess of women, Hera could be appropriately invoked today on International Women's Day, March 8th. " excerpt from:
http://www.orderwhi temoon.org/ goddess/Hera. html

There's plenty here to use for research and better comprehension of some of the many facets this powerful goddess exhibits.

Be well and Buona notte,
Demetria

More Juno in Shakespeare

Honor, riches, marriage blessinig,
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
Juno sings her blessings on you.

--The Tempest, IV, i

Juno in Shakespeare

Wedding is great Juno's crown,
O blessed bond of board and bed!
'Tis Hymen peoples every town;
High wedlock then be honored.
Honor, high honor, and renown,
To Hymen, god of every town!

--As You Like It, V, iv

From the U.S. Postal Service...

...just in time for the Annual FOI Goddess Festival! King and Queen postage stamps. How wonderfully synchronous...or...are they becoming attuned to the Throne of Destiny thoughts we are generating...?

Where To Stay

Joan checked with the Cenacle, a Catholic retreat center near Life Force Arts Center (LFAC) regarding housing for participants in the Goddess Festival. It is only about 15 minutes by car from LFAC!

Bob Racagulia is the contact person. He said the Cenacle provides housing for people attending conferences and retreats, whether the conferences are at the Cenacle or at another location. So it's fine for someone coming to the Goddess Festival to stay at the Cenacle.

Here is the information:
Cenacle Retreat Center,
513 W Fullerton, Chicago IL 60614
773-528-6300.

Single rooms are $60 per night
Double rooms are $90 for two people ($45 each person).
Rooms have a sink.
Bathrooms and showers are down the hall.
Rooms have air conditioning.
Rooms do not have telephone or television.
There are 20 double rooms and 40 single rooms.

Parking: There are 30 parking places.
Parking is on a first come, first served basis.
There is also parking at Children's Memorial Parking garage for $6 per day.

Meals may be purchased in addition to the room. fee:$7 breakfast, $8 lunch, $9.50 dinner

If there are up to 4 people coming for a conference/retreat, they can contact the Cenacle directly to arrange for accomodations. If more than 4 people are coming, a representative of the conference should contact the Cenacle to make a contract between that organization and the Cenacle. That means, if more than 4 people from the Goddess Festival are going to stay at the Cenacle, then Joan should contact the Cenacle with a rooming list of people from the Goddess Festival staying at the Cenacle.

So, the earlier people plan the better, so we can reserve enough rooms.

Please contact Joan at 773-327-7224 or joan@LifeForceArts. org if you have any questions.

Juno Covella

Juno Covella - "The dove that binds with cords".

On certain occasions, Romans combined their goddess titles of Juno and Khubele; hence, Juno Covello.

Blogs and Thrones

Isidora Forrest has created Isiopolis, a blog dedicated to Isis.

Since we are focusing quite a bit on the THRONE, this section seemed relevant:

"Isis is the Great Goddess “Throne,” the original Cause and Place of Being. She is the ancient Great Mother Who gives birth and rebirth to Her people as they pass through Her enthroning lap. She is the Lady Who nurtures and sustains them with the blessings of the Earth, which She—as the Primordial Place of Being—is."