Chera

(Χῆρα), a surname of Hera, which was believed to have been given her by Temenus, the son of Pelasgus. He had brought up Hera, and erected to her at Old Stymphalus three sanctuaries under three different names. To Hera, as a maiden previous to her marriage, he dedicated one in which she was called παῖς; to her as the wife of Zeus, a second in which she bore the name of τέλεια; and a third in which she was worshipped as the χῆρα, the widow, alluding to her separation from Zeus. (Paus. 8.22.2.) [L.S]