January 4th- Hera

Poor Hera, spend enough time around the Olympians and you start to feel a bit sorry for her. Queen of the Olympians, wife and sister to Zeus, goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth. However one of her defining character traits is jealousy (given Zeus infidelity who can blame her), and her vengeful nature, particularly towards the women who Zeus had seduced or tricked. 

Hera is the stepmother and enemy of Heracles son of Zeus. She sent two serpents to kill him in his cradle, but Heracles strangled the snakes. Zeus also tried to trick Hera in to raising Heracles, she discovered the trickery whilst breast feeding him, and the spurt of milk formed a smear of light across the night sky creating the Milky Way.Once full grown Hera made Heracles mad, when he killed his family, causing him to set out on his famous labours to compensate for his acts. Hera made nearly every single one of his tasks more difficult.

Despite all this in her role of goddess of marriage and childbirth she was very important in daily life. She was celebrated at many festivals and also several temples were built in her honour. 

This is the limited edition shade of Superfine Merino & Silk for today. You can find it in the online shop until stocks run out, and as always it forms part of the Buy 2 Get a third half price offer available on this fibre blend. I am happy to combine orders, but will need you to add a note when you purchase each day. I usually have a lot of orders to process on the first day back and without a note it's highly likely I will miss that you have multiple orders.