As mentioned in my previous two posts, Veil-Bearer and The Rose-Bearer’s Golden Thread, I am introducing another anthology of mythopoetry contemplating the Sky-Veil’s heralds1 of Beauty, Wisdom, and Majesty—Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera. The first collection was Mythic Revelations and the second The Sky-Veil. The poems and their arrangements using Suno music and vocals can be found on my music website.
I am now creating a new anthology of poems inspired by the Golden Thread2 in my series Aphrodite’s Dance. With this myth poem in music, the Golden Thread anthology now includes mythopoetry unveiling all three hypostatic heralds of the Sky-Veil.
Enjoy the third in this new collection—Queen of the Rosy Dawn - Hera’s Reign in the Harmonies of Light.
Queen of the Rosy Dawn is a poetic tribute in honor of Hera, the Majestic Herald of the Sky-Veil. Set in the tender hues of morning, this piece celebrates her as the sovereign herald who announces harmony, unity, and regal splendor to all creation. As the fields awaken and the light bends to her will, Hera does not merely reign—she restores. When the world trembles in disorder, she straightens the lines, quiets the floods, and returns beauty to its rightful throne. This song follows the Golden Thread through her realm, where majesty is not dominance, but divine integration—the radiant order that allows all things to sing in their place.
Lyrics ©Walter Emerson Adams. Vocals and music by Suno ©Walter Emerson Adams
In morning sunlight of the rosy dawn As fields of flowers awaken with yawns Beauty in harmony grasps the domain Hera of the Sky-Veil in splendor reigns The meadows and creeks align with delight Morning’s soft glow reflects across the heights More than sacred bond, the parts form the whole Hera, Majestic, unfolds the land’s soul When rivers flood and saplings wash away And flowers choke on soil and silt astray All is amiss—the meadows groan in fear Hera, Crown of Light, can see and can hear She puts all in order, troubles set right The rivers are calm, the flowers are bright Lines she makes straight and arcs sunlight to tone Hera—Queen of the Veil, ascends her throne
✦ Hypostatic Heralds - Figures who bear the presence of a hypostatic (essential) form. The goddesses do not possess Being as beings, but they announce its substantive varied meanings as it gives itself in the world—beauty, wisdom, majesty. As heralds, they alert the soul through their glint to a deeper contemplation of divine attributes. They harken through shimmers to what is real in effect and presence, though they are not personal subjects or metaphysical beings.
✦ Golden Thread - A hidden tether of grace that binds the exiled soul to its divine origin, even across the abyss of forgetfulness—the flat domain of mundaneness. Though unseen, it is never severed. It glimmers beneath the surface of remembrance and longing, weaving through time like a whisper of the eternal in the fabric of the finite.
To follow the Golden Thread is to walk the path of return—drawn not by force, but by the ache of beauty, the stirrings of love, the wonder of wisdom, and the recollection of majesty once known. It is spun from Aphrodite’s first glance, carried through Athena’s flame of wisdom, and knotted at last in the crowning place of Hera’s Highlands. Each herald, each sign, each step in the Sky-Veil is bound together by its light.