…saw two enormous serpents copulating and he put she put her staff between them and was turned back into a man. Now zeus and Hera, his wife, were arguing in heaven one day about who enjoys sexual congress the more, the male or the female, and of course…

…said, well let's send for tiresias he should know. So they do indeed send for tiresias and tiresias answers promptly, the woman. Well Hera took this badly for some reason that I can't possibly work out but she was so angry at this that she struck…

…two celebrations. In the Arian world the same gods are on both sides. When you read the homer's iliad you see zeus and aphrodite and Hera and all. Poseidon is on the side of troy and the gods of the one pantheon are on both sides and it's a brother…

…infancies abound in anecdotes of precocious strength, cleverness and wisdom. Heracles strangled a serpent sent against his cradle by the goddess Hera, Maui of polynesia snared and slowed the sun to give his mother time to cook her meals. Abraham arrived at…

…a similar thing now with Dionysus. Semele, Dionysus mother had conceived of zeus and she had the indiscretion to boast of this to Hera, Zeus's wife. And Hera said: yes darling but zeus has not revealed himself to you in the same majesty with which he…

…with Dionysus. Semele, Dionysus mother had conceived of zeus and she had the indiscretion to boast of this to Hera, Zeus's wife. And Hera said: yes darling but zeus has not revealed himself to you in the same majesty with which he has revealed himself to…

…along she's sulking and he says: what's the matter? She says: well you haven't revealed yourself to me in the same majesty as to Hera. Well he said now look out you're not quite ready for this. And she said: well you've always told me you'd do anything…

…a similar thing now with Dionysus Semele. Dionysus mother had conceived of zeus and she had the indiscretion to boast of this to Hera, Zeus wife and Hera said: yes darling, but zeus has not revealed himself to you in the same majesty with which he has…

…with Dionysus Semele. Dionysus mother had conceived of zeus and she had the indiscretion to boast of this to Hera, Zeus wife and Hera said: yes darling, but zeus has not revealed himself to you in the same majesty with which he has revealed himself to…

…along, she's sulking and he says: what's the matter she says: well you haven't revealed yourself to me in the same majesty as to Hera. Well he says now look out you're not quite ready for this. And she said: well you've always told me you'd do anything…