Milk of Hera
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milk-of-hera-163-3183795
title:
Milk of Hera
text:
The myth of the milk of Hera is an ancient Greek myth and explanation of the origin of the Milky Way within the context of creation myths. The standard telling goes that the mythical hero Heracles, as an infant, breastfed from an unsuspecting Hera, the goddess of marriage and Zeus's wife, who threw him away, causing a little bit of her milk to splash and create the galaxy with all its stars.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Greek mythological event
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_of_Hera
date created:
2023-01-18T11:02:40Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T03:31:04Z
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