Hera, (Juno in Latin) was the highest Greek Goddess. She is the daughter of Cronos and Rhea, sister of Demeter, Hades, Hestia, Poseidon and Zeus. She was also the wife of Zeus. Many fables are told about their wedding. Their secret marriage suppose to have taken place in the mountains of Ida; the southerly Toras and on the mountain-range Kithairon in Boiotia. According to Samoan legends did the marriage take place in Samoa. It took three-hundred years before the pair was seen again. Another legend states that the marriage was celebrated in the palace of Oceanus on the western edge of the earth. All Gods participated. Gaia presented Hera the gold apples that grew in the gardens of the Hesperidos under their watchful eyes. According to another legend, Hera seduced her younger brother Zeus, who immediately fell in love with her as he was born. It is also told, that Hera and Zeus came together during a fierce storm as she invited him, in the form of a scared Cuckoo into her lap. Ares, Hebe, Eileithia and surely also Hephaistos were the children of Hera and Zeus. According to one record, Hephaistos was created by Hera alone, as revenge for the creation of Athena from Zeus head, instead of being born in a female lap. Typhon is also called Hera's son. Zeus once hung Hera into the clouds in anger. He chained her hands and tied two anvils to her feet. As Hephaistos attempted to rescue his Mother, he provoked the ire of Zeus who grabbed him by a foot and flung him out of the Olympus. Hera helped Zeus fight the Titans and the Giants. She was responsible for the death of Porphyrion who desired her. Ixion who wanted to seduce Hera, was punished by being tied to an eternally rotating wheel. Driven by ambition Hera organized an uprising with Apollo and Poseidon, against Zeus and all of the Gods participated except for Hestia. Zeus was bound to the bed with hundreds of knotted leather-straps. Thetis allowed Briareos to free Zeus. As Zeus proved his supremacy Hera sat beside him as his wife during the meetings and during festive feasts. Hera pursued her rivals such as: Io, Kallisto, Leto, Persephone and Semele and their children begot by Zeus such as: Heracles, Minos and Perseus with jealousy and hate. Since the Trojan Paris was in favor of Aphrodite during the fight for the beauty prize of the golden apple of Eris, was she then along with Athena, classified as enemy of all Trojans, such as the Aeneas. Hera protected as Goddess of the Women all marriages, just as Eileithyria watched over the child-bearing. To her was the cow holy and therefore was she called cow-eye. Hera's attribute was the peacock. In the beginning was Hera surely an Argivian Goddess. The main culture cities were Argas with the lost gold-ivory likeness of Polykleitos and the Island of Samoa with a wooden statue, dedicated to Hera with a special inscription by the Cheramyes.