In Greek mythology the classic instance is the wedding of Zeus and Hera celebrated at the Heraion of Samos,[REF] and doubtless its architectural and cultural predecessors.
The brief fertilizing mystical union engenders Dionysus, and doubled unions, of a god and of a mortal man on one night, result, through telegony, in the semi-divine nature of Greek heroes such as Theseus and Heracles among others.