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Rhea or Rheia (/ ˈ r iː ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ῥέα or Ῥεία [r̥ěː.aː]) is a mother goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Titan daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus, himself a son of Gaia.
Cybele enthroned, with lion, cornucopia, and mural crown.Roman marble, c. 50 AD.Getty Museum. Cybele (/ ˈ s ɪ b əl iː / SIB-ə-lee; [1] Phrygian: Matar Kubileya, Kubeleya "Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; [2] Lydian: Kuvava; Greek: Κυβέλη Kybélē, Κυβήβη Kybēbē, Κύβελις Kybelis) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the ...
Both are associated with the mother goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth, in that Mount Ida in Anatolia was sacred to Cybele, who is sometimes called Mater Idaea ("Idaean Mother"), [1] while Rhea, often identified with Cybele, put the infant Zeus to nurse with Amaltheia at Mount Ida in Crete. Thereafter, his birthplace was sacred to ...
Before Jarvis helped establish the holiday, a day celebrating mothers can be traced back to ancient Greek and Romans who celebrated the mother goddesses — Rhea and Cybele.
Oenone was a mountain nymph (an oread) on Mount Ida in Phrygia, a mountain associated with the Mother Goddess Cybele and the Titaness Rhea. Her gift of prophecy was learned from Rhea. [2] Her father was either the river-gods, Cebren [3] [AI-generated source?] [4] or Oeneus. [5] [AI-generated source?] [6] Her name links her to the gift of wine.
Articles relating to the goddess Cybele, an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest neolithic at Çatalhöyük, where statues of plump women, sometimes sitting, have been found in excavations. Phrygia's only known goddess, she was probably its national deity.
Pages and categories relating to Rhea, mother of the gods in Greek mythology. ... Pages in category "Rhea (mythology)" The following 7 pages are in this category, out ...
Rhea/Cybele When the Trojan refugee Aeneas and his followers landed in Italy, a local Italic warrior named Turnus set Aeneas's pine-framed vessels afire. The goddess Rhea or Cybele, remembering that those hulls had been crafted from trees felled on her holy mountains back in Troad, transformed the vessels into sea nymphs. Ivory statue