![]() However, finding the truth behind all of this, Hera became filled with rage and sent two serpents to cradle into the chambers where baby Heracles was sleeping. Alcmene recognised her child and was joyful to accept him. Athena then took Heracles to Alcmene on Zeus' advice. ![]() But the child caused her pain and she threw him on the ground. Soon Athena found the child crying in the fields and took him to Hera who wanted to nurse him with her breast. Upon Heracles' birth, Alcmene feared that he would be persecuted by jealous Hera and therefore abandoned him in the fields. Heracles and his mortal twin brother Iphicles were born at the palace of his stepfather in Thebes. She became pregnant with twins from both, the god and her man. Zeus tricked Alcmene by turning himself into Amphitryon, who was with her at the time, and slept with her. Heracles was a son of Zeus and mortal woman Alcmene. On some occasions, he is also wearing a lion skin garment with lion's head still attached, serving him as some sort of hood. Usually, Heracles is depicted as a muscular grown man with a beard, holding a massive club in his hand.
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