Hera, 7–8, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 39, 42, 43, 47, 53, 60, 62, 67,
68, 78, 93, 94, 101, 113, 119, 122, 123, 125, 132–167, 168, 171, 174, 176, 177,
178, 179, 180, 184, 204, 212, 215, 216, 224, 234, 238, 242, 246, 248, 250, 251,
258, 259, 261, 263–264, 265, 268, 269, 270, 273, 274, 281, 282, 283, 286, 294;
adolescence and early adulthood, 149–150; archetypal roles, 301; capacity
for commitment, 144–145; children, 156–157; cultivating, 147–148;
description of archetype, 142–148; description of goddess, 139–142;
description of Hera woman, 8–9, 148–158; disappointed expectations,
159–160; early years. 148–149; genealogy and mythology, 140–142, 299;
identifying with, 158–159; invoking, 33; Jungian psychological type, 302;
later years, 158; marriage, 145–146, 154–156; Medea Syndrome, 161–163;
middle years, 157; as mother, 14, 156–157; negative pattern, 146–147;
oppressed and oppressor, 160–161; parents, 149; psychological difficulties,
158–163, 302; relationships with men, 152–153; relationships with women,
151–152; relative power of, 22; sexuality, 153–154; significant others, 301;
strengths, 302; as vulnerable goddess. 132–138; ways to grow, 163–167;
as wife, 142–144; work, 150–151
Heracles, 77, 198–199, 279
Heraclitus, 221
Hercules. See Heracles
Hermaphroditus, 235
Hermes, 19, 170, 192, 198, 234–235, 264; genealogy, 299; as god, relation to
Hestia, 109, 114–115, 129–130; man, with Aphrodite woman, 247, 249–250;
man, with Hestia woman, 123–124, 250
Heroine, becoming a, 278–295; end of the journey, 294–295; evoking the
transcendent function, 289–293; fending off death and destruction,
286–288; getting through the dark and narrow passage, 289; the path,
280–282; reclaiming the power of the snake, 283–284; resisting the power
of the bear, 284–286; surviving loss and grief, 288–289 from victim to
heroine, 293–294
Hesiod, 17–18, 76, 234, 235, 240
Hestia, 11, 15, 16, 18, 19, 25, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35–45, 79, 99, 107–131, 137, 224,
225, 242, 250, 258, 267, 268, 274, 276, 282; adolescence and early adulthood,
120; archetypal roles, 301; children, 124–125; cultivating, 116–117;
description of archetype, 110–117; description of goddess, 107–109;
description of Hestia woman, 9, 117–126; devaluation of, 127; early years,
118; genealogy and mythology, 107–108, 299; as hearthkeeper, 111–112;
and Hermes, 109, 114–115, 129–130; identifying with, 126–127; invoking,
33; as inward-focused, 110–111, 113–114 Jungian psychological type, 302;
later years, 125–126; marriage, 122–123; middle years, 125; as mother, 14,
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