In Greek mythology Rhea was the wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus. But was she a goddess herself or a human?

Answer 1

She was a godlike immortal known as a Titan.

They were NOT gods, but the precurser to gods.

Answer 2

In Greek mythology, Rhea is the mother of the gods, daughter of Uranus and Gaia. She is married to her brother Cronus and is the mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon and Zeus.
Cronus, jealous of the future power of his children and to secure his dominion, ate his own children but Rhea managed to rescue one son, Zeus. She hid him in the Dictean Cave in Crete and gave Cronus a stone wrapped in the clothes of the infant, which he swallowed. Thus Rhea succeeded in making him believe that he had killed all of his children. When Zeus reached maturity he overpowered and dethroned his father and made Cronus disgorge his siblings.

Rhea is identified with mother goddess Cybele from Asia Minor and is also known as Rhea Cybele and Magna Mater ("great mother"). She was worshipped with orgiastic rites. Rhea is depicted between two lions or on a chariot pulled by lions.

Answer 3

Yes, Rhea was a Titan, which is basically a older version of a God. Also, a gruesome fact that not many know, Rhea was Cronus's sister. So, Cronus actually married his sister and Gaea (Cronus and Rhea's mother) married her son, Uranus. A very disgusting fact.

Answer 4

Rhea was a Titan, and also Known as mother Earth. Rhea and Cronus were the parents of the Gods, until he started to fear his children and ate them and Zues freed them.

Answer 5

Rhea was a goddess herself; like Cronus, she was one of the Titans who helped overthrow Ouranos, Cronus' father.

Answer 6

Primitive people not able to understand physical phenomena called them gods.
In ancient Greece, they started naming gods the ideas behind the physical phenomena.
Initially people understood matter, thus the created Gaea (something like Earth, or mass - matter) and Uranus (something like Universe, Sky, Energy).
Then they replaced them, since they understood the importance of time, by Rhea (Goddess meaning who moves and changes) and Cronus (God of time - within time everything starts and finishes).
When they became wiser, the Greeks created ZEUS (the one who unites and brakes everything, since life and Universe is a continuous change and transformation of items and particles. For example some are born from the union of two, like most animals, water is the combination of Hydrogen and Oxygen, etc. And by braking, like persons from family, multiplication of amoebae, from ore we get single metal and other products.
Since not all the people were ready to accept ONE principle, they were present Zeus in different phases, so we have the different gods, like:
Hera, Athena, Artemis, Hestia, Hephaestus, Ares, Apollo, Hermes, etc.
Going back to time, before some authors wrote and distinguished the gods and their "properties", all of them were Zeus!

Answer 7

Yes She was in fact she along with Cronus were teh Queen and King of teh Gods and their rule was called the Golden Age as the people of the time had no need for laws or rules; everyone did right and as such, there was no need. Nice wouldn't you say.

Answer 8

she was the sister of cronus and the daughter of the earth godess
therefore she was a godess but to be more precise she was a titan

Answer 9

rhea was a goddess, a titan and sister to cronos

Answer 10

she was a goddes. Rhea was the Titaness daughter of Uranus and of Gaia.

Answer 11

Rhea was goodness.