Héra, déesse de l’air et de la tradition ?

Hera of the Golden Throne (Chrystothronos) is a Queen goddess and has supplanted all the consorts of the god who has reached the top of the Olympian hierarchy. Functionally associated with the institution of marriage, she legitimizes unions, birth, and thus a certain social order. In the Orphic tradition, she personifies air, completing the fiery essence embodied by Zeus. Like the kanji for wind, does the goddess by nature represent the natural element and tradition? This is the subject of this paper which, after examining the two main Mycenaean texts and the etymology of the theonym, focuses primarily on two passages from the Iliad, in which Hera unleashes the winds against her enemies and then questions this possible dual nature of the deity.