Rhea

deity earth Greek single tradition · 22

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #627 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 22 sources

When

First attested
1400 BCE
Attested period
-1400 – 2020
Historical notes
Appears in accounts from the 4th century BC Eumolpia and later sources.

Relationships

consort of
Zeus, Kronos, Cronus
manifests as
Demeter
syncretized with
Cybele, Ops
manifested by
Kabeiro
served by
Adrasteia
child of
Gaia, Uranus

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Sources

Source passages

“Rhea still gives Cronus a stone in place of Zeus, which he consumes”

#8975 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“However, Dionysus' grandmother Rhea managed to put some of his pieces back together (principally from his heart that was spared) and brought him back to life.”

#12073 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Persephone is said to be the daughter of Zeus and his mother Rhea, who became Demeter after her seduction by her son.”

#13009 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“he shows how Proclus links Hekate with the goddesses Rhea, Hera, Demeter and Persephone in their regenerative roles in the Eleusinian Mysteries”

#19966 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Aleister Crowley's Liber 777 associates it with Isis, Cybele, Demeter, Rhea, Woman, The Virgin Mary, Juno, Hecate, and the "threes" of the Tarot.”

#20000 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001