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📚KIDS BOOKS | GREEK GODS AND GODDESSES

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👑 HERA 🐦

Beautiful, strong and regal
That’s how this goddess is described
She is the queen of all the gods
And helps families unite

Although she is a champion 
Of women and their lives
Her heart is full of poison 
For her husband’s many lies

She is married to grand old Zeus 
Who loves being with the ladies
Hera has tried with all her might 
To send him off to Hades*

But the god of death cannot best
Zeus and his lightning bolt
So Hera now tortures her step children
With punishements untold 

When Hera is having a good day
She is sweet, gentle and kind
The cow, the peacock and the cucukoo 
Shine as her symbols divine

But when she is angry with Zeus
She is as jealous as a goose
Zeus says sorry and stands on his head
And then finally there is a truce 
       
Along with Zeus and his lightning bolt
Hera lives with her cuckoo and crown
She reigns from above on mount Olympus
But to earth, she rarely comes down.
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* HADES: The god of the underworld/ death.

📚KIDS BOOKS | GREEK GODS AND GODDESSES

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⚡️ZEUS 🦅

Zeus is a grand old Greek god
He has fantastic powers
He can summon frightful storms
Lightning and thunder showers

He can also shift his shape
So you would never know
If your best friend yesterday 
Was Zeus in-cog-nito

Zeus has fought many battles 
With monsters, giants and gods
He goes in with his lightning bolt
Even humans feel his wrath

Cronus was Zeus’s father
And so the story goes
That his old dad went quite mad
And tried to swallow him whole 

But his mother the goddess Rhea
She did intervene
And saved her little son from
Becoming Cronus’s last meal

On his throne on Mount Olympus
Zeus always keeps a watch
Since his brothers Poseidon and Hades 
Would love to kill him off

But Zeus is all-powerful
Because he is also quite clever 
He keeps all his friends very close
And his enemies even closer

Now you know who Zeus is
The king of all Greek gods
With his lightning rod and his eagle
He rules from his castle in the clouds.
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