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Hera In 'The Callisto Affair'
The Callisto Affair
Mount Olympus-Hera, the goddess of marriage and childbirth, wife and sister to Zeus. Hera gets jealous very easily so when Zeus did this she was furious. When she found out about Callisto, she put her wrath out on her and turned her into a bear. But then later on we found out that, that was NOT the only affair. She has also done worse, Echo was trying to help Zeus leave and have his affairs. Echo distracted Hera by being a chatterbox, as usual. Hera cursed her to only be-able to say what has already been said by others. Zeus had to save another women named Lo as Hera was angry about that too, Zeus altered Lo’s appearance into a cow, which to them is apparently normal. Hera is a very confident young

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