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Hera is the goddess of marriage, women, and birth, and the pomegranate is a symbol of marriage, marital love, and fruitfulness.
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∙ 7y agoThe pomegranate was a symbol of fertility in ancient Greece and so became the symbol synonymous with Hera as she was the goddess of childbirth.
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∙ 13y agoA pomegranate is not a symbol of Hera. It is a symbol of Persephone and Hades.
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∙ 12y agoThe pomegranate is Hera's symbol because it represents fertility
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How does the pomegranate represent goddess Hera?
It represents the duality of life and death that Hera grants through childbirth and the apple (symbol of marriage and motherhood). The pomegranate is the opposite of the apple which repeats the duality that is only in Hera and her place as a mother goddess.
What is Hera the goddess of marige's symbol?
Hera's symbol is the peacock.
What is Heras symbols?
In the Greek mythology, Hera was the goddess of Marriage. Her symbol are the diadem, scepter, pomegranate; the fruit symbol of fertility. Her flower is the lily and her sacred animals were the peacock and crow.
What does Hera the Greek goddess hold in her hand?
Hera is often depicted holding a pomegranate which represents fertility and death.
Why is heras symbol the pomagranate?
The pomegranate symbolized female fertility and the marital loss of virginity with the consumption of marriage (from both its red stains and rich seeds).
What is the sign for the greek goddess hera?
If you mean her symbols, then the pomegranate, the peacock feather and the diadem.
What is the goddess Hera symbol?
cow,peacock
Why is goddess symbol of cow and peacock?
HERA
Which goddess has roses and pomgranates for a symbol?
I'm not sure about the roses, but pomegranates were a symbol of Hera.
Which Greek goddess's sacred animal was the cow?
Hera the goddess of the heavens, sacred animals are the cow and the peacock
Why does hera have a cow symbol?
Yes, as a goddess of motherhood; and perhaps referencing to Io.
What is the symbol of Hera?
AnswerHera's symbols are: the cuckoo, it symbolized Zeus' love for her because Zeus was disguised in a cuckoo when he conquered her, the pomegranate- symbol of fertility because Hera was also the goddess patron of childbirth. Some of the most known Hera's symbols are the peacock- ancient symbol of immortality, the scepter and the diadem.There are also some minor symbols such as the lily, the cow, the orange tree, the apple tree, the salix (willow), the fig and the myrrh.
