=== ゼウスとの結婚 ===
ヘーラーは母性よりも結婚と出産の女神であり、その神話の多くは兄ゼウスとの結婚を中心に展開されている。
Hera is the goddess of marriage and childbirth rather than motherhood, and much of her mythology revolves around her marriage with her brother Zeus. She is charmed by him and she seduces him; he cheats on her and has many children with other goddesses and mortal women; she is intensely jealous and vindictive towards his children and their mothers; he is threatening and violent to her.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burkert |first1=Walter |title=Greek religion |date=1985 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Mass. |isbn=0674362810 |pages=131–135}}</ref>