187) makes only a passing allusion to Rhea, and the passage of Hesiod, which accordingly must be regarded as the most ancient Greek legend about Rhea, seems to suggest that the mystic priests of Crete had already formed connections with the more northern parts of Greece. When Zeus was born she gave to Cronos a stone wrapped up like an infant, and the god swallowed it as he had swallowed his other children. Cronos is said to have devoured all his children by Rhea, but when she was on the point of giving birth to Zeus, she, by the advice of her parents, went to Lyctus in Crete. According to some accounts Cronos and Rhea were preceded in their sovereignty over the world by Ophion and Eurynome but Ophion was overpowered by Cronos, and Rhea cast Eurynome into Tartarus. She became by Cronos the mother of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Aides, Poseidon, and Zeus. § 3), Rhea was a daughter of Uranus and Ge, and accordingly a sister of Oceanus, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, Iapetus, Theia, Themis, and Mnemosyne. According to the Hesiodic Theogony (133 comp. 401, &c.) but thus much seems undeniable, that Rhea, like Demeter, was a goddess of the earth. Some consider Rhea to be merely another form of era, the earth, while others connect it with rheô, I flow (Plat. The name as well as the nature of this divinity is one of the most difficult points in ancient mythology. ZEUS, DEMETER, HAIDES (Homeric Hymn 2.69) ZEUS, POSEIDON, HAIDES (by Kronos) (Homer Iliad 15.187) HESTIA, DEMETER, HERA, HAIDES, POSEIDON, ZEUS (by Kronos) (Hesiod Theogony 453, Apollodorus 1.4, Diodorus Sic. AITHER (or OURANOS) & GAIA (Hyginus Pref) OFFSPRING OURANOS & GAIA (Hesiod Theogony 116, Apollodorus 1.1, Orphic Hymn 14, Diodorus Siculus 5.65.1) They were both depicted as matronly women, usually wearing a turret crown, and attended by lions. Rhea was closely identified with the Anatolian mother-goddess Kybele (Cybele). In his stead she presented Kronos with a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes which he promptly devoured. But Rhea bore her youngest, Zeus, in secret and hid him away in a cave in Krete (Crete) guarded by shield-clashing Kouretes (Curetes). When her husband heard a prophecy that he would be deposed by one of his children, he took to swallowing each of them as soon as they were born. In myth, Rhea was the wife of the Titan Kronos (Cronus) and Queen of Heaven. She was also a goddess of comfort and ease, a blessing reflected in the common Homeric phrase "the gods who live at their ease ( rhea)." Her name means "flow" and "ease." As the wife of Kronos (Cronus, Time), she represented the eternal flow of time and generations as the great Mother ( Meter Megale), the "flow" was menstrual blood, birth waters, and milk. RHEIA (Rhea) was the Titanis (Titaness) mother of the gods, and goddess of female fertility, motherhood, and generation.
Flow, Ease ( rhea) Rhea and the Omphalos stone, Athenian red-figure pelike C5th B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art
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