who is rhea by Greek mythology?

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Rhea (ancient Greek Ῥέα) was the Titaness daughter of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth, in classical Greek mythology

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Rhea (Rheia) Greek mother of the gods. Daughter of Ouranos (heaven) and Gaia (earth). Consort of Kronos. Mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon and Zeus. When Kronos swallowed his children, Rhea spirited Zeus away to a cave on the island of Crete, substituting a stone wrapped in swaddling cloths for the infant. Rhea was later equated with the Anatolian mother goddess Kybele.

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In Greek mythology, Rhea is the mummy of the gods, daughter of Uranus and Gaia. She is married to her brother Cronus and is the mummy of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon and Zeus.

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Rhea (mythology), one of the manifestations of the Great Goddess who was worshiped broadly around the ancient world and later, in Greek mythology among the Titans, the sister and wife of Cronus, the mother goddess who gave birth to many of the other major gods and goddesses

Rhea (ancient Greek Ῥέα) was the Titaness daughter of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth, in classical Greek mythology. In earlier traditions, she was strongly associated with Gaia and Cybele, the Great Goddess and later seen by the classical Greeks as the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses, though never dwelling permanently among them on Mount Olympus. In Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, the fusion of Rhea and Phrygian Cybele is complete. "Upon the Mother depend the winds, the ocean, the whole earth beneath and the snowy seat of Olympos; whenever she leaves the mountains and climbs to the great vault of heaven, Zeus himself, the son of Kronos, makes way, and all the other immortal gods likewise make way for the dread goddess," the seer Mopsus tells Jason in Argonautica; Jason climbed to the sanctuary high on Mount Dindymon to offer sacrifice and libations to placate the goddess, so that the Argonauts might continue on their way. For her temenos they wrought an image of the goddess, a xoanon, from a vine-stump. There "they called upon the mother of Dindymon, mistress of all, the dweller in Phrygia, and with her Titias and Kyllenos who alone of the many Cretan Daktyls of Ida are called 'guiders of destiny' and 'those who sit beside the Idaean Mother'." They leapt and danced in their armour: "For this reason the Phrygians still worship Rheia with tambourines and drums".[1]

Rhea was wife to Cronus and mother to Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus

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Rhea was the Titaness daughter of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth, in classical Greek mythology. She was the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses, though never dwelling permanently among them on Mount Olympus.

Rhea was wife to Cronus and mother to Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus. In art, Rhea is usually depicted seated in a throne flanked by lions or on a chariot drawn by two lions. Most often Rhea's symbol is a pair of lions, the ones that pulled her celestial chariot and were seen often, rampant, one on either side of the gateways through the walls to many cities in the ancient world.

Cronus, Rhea's Titan brother and husband, castrated their father, Uranus. He and Rhea took the throne as King and Queen of the gods. This time was called the Golden Age.

Cronus sired several children by Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born, since he had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own child as he had overthrown his own father. But when Zeus was about to be born, Rhea sought Uranus and Gaia to devise a plan to save him, so that Cronus would get his retribution for his acts against Uranus and his own children. Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete, handing Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes which he promptly swallowed.

Answer 6

Rhea was a titan ... she was the mother of Zeus.
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Answer 7

Rhea is Cronus' wife. they both had hera, zeus, and all those other gods.

Answer 8

Look to the book of Enoc..She is hidden there..Happy searching in Spirit!!
Where Christ Immanuel is the True Christ!!

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she was one of the giants who ruled the world before the gods took over. i might be wrong, but i think she was zeus' mom... but don't take that one for sure.

Answer 10

what is rhea the god/goddess of?