Blogpost #2 Jealousy in Mythology: Hera's Revenge

I noticed that jealousy has positive & negative sides. Positive side of jealousy is that you show that you value the person and you love them that you're afraid to lose them and the negative side of jealousy is that when it comes with anger that what you feel is that you seek for revenge to the person who hurted you.

Well I believe jealousy exist even before the foundation of the world that's why in The Bible, there were fallen angels that made the world black and white today. I was no longer amazed of romantic jealousy of gods and goddesses, in ancient Greek mythology. Hera, for example, the other half of Zeus (Mt. Olympus leader who obtained many lovers other than his wife), the perfect example of displaying this type of jealousy. Hera out of jealousy made revenge to his husband's lovers. The following are the example who received revenge from Hera that I found in the article "Hera" by Mark Cartwright

Leto

When Hera knew that Leto was pregnant and Zeus is the father she banned her from giving birth to the main land or any land. Hera had her daughter Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth lengthen Leto's labor to nine months.

Callisto

A follower of Artemis, she took a vow that she will remain a virgin but when Zeus saw her, he fell in love and he disguised himself as Artemis to pull her in his arms. Hera then turned her into a bear.

Io

Hera almost caught Io and Zeus. But Zeus turned her into a beautiful cow. Hera wasn't fooled by that what she did was she demanded Zeus to give the cow to her as a present. When she received Io she gave her to Argus to keep her from distance to Zeus.

Semele

Was a son of Zeus by a mortal woman. Hera out of jealousy attempted to kill Semele by sending titans to rip him into pieces after tempting him with toys.

Jealousy is very destructive in this scene, because the person seek to harm her rival, I believe this case already needs special care from a professional counsellor, Hera needs counselling, her husband on the other side must ensure that she will be taken care of inspite of other woman in his life. I met a Muslim in In Aurora, Quezon, I was amazed of different woman with the same husband living in one compound but they are all happy. They told me that the husband is very fair in terms of the need of each of the family, they are happy probably because this type of situation is already a part of their culture. Amazing but this only shows that every problem has a solution though in other religion it is not acceptable but still, if the case already exist, there still a way of resolving it rather than destroying the one's who hurted you, because it might lead to a more difficult scenario I think that the best way to solve this is through communication and assurance. Talk to your partner regarding what he or she is doing. Everything can be solved by communication. I'm sure that you don't need to be destructive to someone once you know the reason behind why it happened.