Are they Rednecks?

And Persephone and Hades being uncle and neice, lol.

It's strange their sons are not stupid...
Well, greeks didn't know so....

ok i once had to do their family tree... so twisted its not funny

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Not normal for this day and age, of course... but it was seen a lot in myths and tales from that time.

i just think it's kinda weird cuz they had kids together.

yeah

What we now call incest was created to keep family lineage...

Well, I am not supporting the incest of Zeus and Hera. I think that's nasty indeed. But that is if you look at it from story point of view. However, just like in all other Greek myth poetry or prose there are always different ways to look at a point.
In the epic poems we hear frequently that Zeus is referred to as 'Father'; meaning which he is greatest of the Gods and the supreme omnipotent, the most potent male, as he gives birth(something completely reserved for women).
Mid nineteenth century research on Hera suggested that she was a Goddess of matriarchy worshipped by a matriarchal society before Hellenes.Her very marriage to Zeus, the then most powerful God worshipped afterwards, and a subsequent subordination, alluding therefore to the supremacy of Zeus seems to be a way of showing that even 'the most powerful matriarch' falls weak before 'the most powerful Father of all, Zeus'. We know from religious texts that they are subject to change and that new Gods were introduced and corresponding stories were forged, Dionysus being a good example.
This also implies the rising of a patriarchal society, and giving women less respect than they originally had(most people glorified by Greek texts are male only few are females).The terms referring to women afterwards showed lesser and lesser respect pertaining to their social importance like calling the maternal side as 'distaff side', implying a woman's job is 'spinning'.This could just be a way of preserving Hera, upholding her importance over all but not Zeus.
What I said is merely a conjecture based on few things I read. Please comment further if you think that anything is wrong or if my thinking process has totally blundered.

As for Juani, that children born out of incest are stupid, is a myth. Statistical data suggests that the percentage is not too different from 'normal children'. Yeah, but more farther the bloodlines more are the chances of evolution, for combinations between similar genes lead to lesser evolution. But evolution effects do not appear in one generation. So, no wonder their children weren't stupid.

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no wander he dosen't wante to be with his sister

lmao!!!nice one cowgrilfromhell!!!!!!!!!

true true

It really is krazy. Married to my brother... No. And it does explain the sleeping around.

He Really can't Get rid Of Her!

At least!

Keeps the bloodlines purer.

But yeah, it is nasty, and it does explain why he fooled around with all the other women. lol

It's not like their were many more options at the time. I mean, they could always hook up with one of their cousin's, the Cyclopes. But that was about as genetically diverse as it was going to get.

they are GODS not humans. they live forever. they can do things and be fine with it.

the fact that zeus and hera are siblings and are marrried is unnormal for humans but normal in the greek mythology i mean that many greek gods/goddesses marry they siblings and it doesn't explain why zeus is fooling around with other womens because he cheated on hera with demeter(and demeter is his sister) too

i dont care. their gods, they dont have blood, let alone DNA. it goes to show how stupid zues is no offense to zuesfans i know im 'misspelling' zeus but i spell it that way. it makes the family tree smaller. the greeks had very creative minds butmaking an incest free family tree is too complicated. this is quite common in greek mythology. in fact, echidna married her own son. this can or cannot be in egyptian mythology (i dont think so. for ex., Osiris+Isis are married+siblings, but that was different life/form. in married version,their not related. even though the egyptian gods dont incense, it was common in pharoanic royalty.) norse mythology avoids anything weird at all exept when loki(male) takes female form and mothers odin's horse. egyptian+ norse mythology don't have rape+affairs like greek mythology

I've always found it rather disturbing, but I understand why Zeus married his sister.

its the way this were but still......

i mean it is nasty, but i made out with my cousin(he's a boy)! i was 7 or 8!!

lol

According to marriage terms for gods and royal humans, those (spouse wise)who seemed good enough for the family were family. Assuming it would keep the bloodline pure.

ya,they did do that I think

WHA?!
I need to go back to 4th grade now...

Well, they are gods and goddesses. I'm sure their lives differ much from our mortal ones. :P You guys are narrow-minded.... .-.

Come on, guys. This is supposed to be a Greek mythology fan club and people freak out about incest, of all things? Really? How about Gaia and Ouranos? Gaia and Pontos? She was their mother. Kronos and Rheia? Okeanos and Tethys (they had 6000 children together)? Koios and Phoibe? Hyperion and Theia? All of them were siblings. Haides and Persephone? She was his niece. Her parents were also brother and sister. Poseidon wanted to marry one of his sisters and raped another one. Zeus slept with sisters, cousins, aunts, and even daughters, not to mention many other descendants. And no, being married to his sister doesn't explain anything. Why would it? This may come as a shocking revelation, guys, but the old gods didn't have the same sensibilities as you.