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Rhea – Mythopedia Rhea or Rheia)—and the one endorsed by Plato in Cratylus—claimed that “Rhea” was a feminine form of the ancient Greek verb rheō, meaning “flow,” “discharge,” or “stream ” Modern scholars have also suggested possible connections with the Greek words rheia or rhea (“easily”), era (“earth”), and oros (“mountain”)
Greek Titans - Mythopedia The Titans were the first children of the primordial Greek deities Uranus and Gaia Two of these Titans, Cronus and Rhea, became the parents of the original generation of Olympians, who overthrew the Titans, just as the Titans had overthrown Uranus before them
Theia – Mythopedia Among her brothers and sisters were the other Titans—Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, Oceanus, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, Themis, and Rhea—as well as the Hecatoncheires and the Cyclopes, destructive monsters who terrorized gods and mortals alike Family Tree Parents
Cybele – Mythopedia Cybele was known in Greece from an early period and was often identified with other mother goddesses such as Rhea or Demeter She was typically imagined riding in a lion-drawn chariot, wearing a tall, turreted crown, or holding a tympanum (a hand drum) One well-known myth told of how Cybele caused her young lover Attis to castrate himself
Mars – Mythopedia Hoping to sever the royal line of Numitor, Amulius forced his brother’s daughter, the lovely and virtuous Rhea Silvia, to become a Vestal Virgin; this position carried with it a vow of abstinence Whether through outright lust or the desire to perpetuate the lineage of Numitor, Mars visited Rhea Silvia when she was sleeping and raped her
Zeus - Mythopedia Rhea presents Cronus the stone wrapped in cloth, woodcut engraving from The Olympus or the Mythology of the Greeks and Romans by August Heinrich Petiscus (1878) Wikimedia Commons Public Domain There are different versions of Zeus’ infancy
Cronus - Mythopedia Rhea later incited Cronus and the other Titans to wage war against Ammon, who finally fled to Crete Eventually, Cronus’ tyrannical rule was ended by Ammon’s son Dionysus Dionysus installed Zeus, the son (in this tradition) of Cronus and Rhea, as king of Egypt, and the two joined forces to defeat the rest of the Titans Worship Festivals
Demeter – Mythopedia One of the children of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, Demeter was the sister of Zeus, Hestia, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon Her most famous daughter was Persephone—the bride of Hades and the mistress of the Underworld Rarely meddling in others’ affairs, Demeter was among the most beloved and least controversial of all Greek deities Her most
Persephone – Mythopedia The Orphic version of Persephone, on the other hand, was a daughter of Zeus and Rhea, while an Arcadian version of Persephone called Despoina was the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon The so-called “Persephone Krater,” an Apulian red-figure volute-krater by the Circle of the Darius Painter (ca 340 BCE) Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany
Titans – Mythopedia deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of [Gaia’s] children, and he hated his lusty sire These twelve Titans, like other Greek gods, were immortal and ageless