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Animals commonly associated with Hera are the cow and the peacock.

  • Hera is often known with the stock epithlet of "the cow-eyed goddess." Some say that she may have been the first sacred cow. In pre-Hellenistic myths, Hera even turned into a cow once.
  • The peacock has similar traits to Hera (ie. vanity, royal, beauty, etc.). Hera's chariot was supposedly pulled by peacocks. There is a story about how while spying for Hera, her hundred eyed giant, Argus, was killed by Hermes. Hera then placed the hundred eyes on her favorite bird, thus creating the peacock.
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