Juno
in Roman mythology, a celebrated deity, identified with the Hera of the Greeks, and generally regarded as the daughter of Saturn and Rhea, and sister and wife of Jupiter.
The principal seats of her worship were Argos, Samos, Carthage, and afterward Rome. The hawk, goose, and particularly the peacock, often called Junonia avis (the bird of June), were sacred to her. She presided over marriage and childbirth, and as the goddess of all power and empire, and the patroness of riches, is represented sitting on a throne with a diadem on her head and a golden scepter in her right hand. The Roman consuls, when they entered on office, were always obliged to offer her a solemn sacrifice. The public finances were also under her care, and the mint at Rome was in her temple. In astronomy, the name of an asteroid in proximity to Ceres.