yourMissTress
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From Wikipedia: Zeus and Hera Zeus was brother and consort of Hera. The issue of their union was Ares, though Hera produced other offspring of her own: Hephaistos, Eileithyia, Hebe. The conquests of Zeus among nymphs and the mythic mortal progenitors of Hellenic dynasties are famous. Olympian mythography even credits him with unions with Demeter, Latona, Dione and Maia. Among the mortals: Semele, Io, Europa and Leda. For more details, see below). Mythic anecdote renders Hera as jealous of his amorous conquests and a consistent enemy of Zeus' mistresses and their children by him. For a time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from his affairs by incessantly talking: when Hera discovered the deception, she cursed Echo to repeat the words of others. A male cuckolding a female is at least as old as Zeus.
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Tress "If you have to tell people that you are a lady, you are not." My Grandmother
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