Gerana

For the village in Azerbaijan, see Gərənə.

Gerana was a queen of the Pygmy folk in Greek mythology. She boasted to be more beautiful than the goddess Hera and was transformed by the angry goddess into a crane (Greek γέρανος geranos). The bird descendants of Gerana waged an eternal war on the Pygmies during their winter migration to the shores of the river Oceanus.^[1]

Gerana was otherwise^[2] known as Oenoe.

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