There was a certain woman named Gerana, who became the queen of the Pygmies. She was worshipped as a goddess. They honour her greatly with prayers and sacrficial rituals. Gerana soon became very arrogant and claim that she was more beautiful than Hera. When Hera learned about this, she was enraged. So she turned Gerana into a crane bird and proclaimed that birds who were descendants of Gerana will wage an eternal war with the Pygmy people evrytime they migrated near Okeanus' lake.