Honestly, I'm embarrassed to say I didn't notice ῥέα/ῥέω! That would certainly make more sense.
I generally find Rhea very confusing. In some contexts, she is Mother of the Gods (e.g. Kybele, Isis); but in others, she is Earth (e.g. Gaia, Demeter)... except that Demeter is also Isis, but Gaia is more fundamental than any of the above, and Rhea is also explicitly made the mother of both Demeter and Isis. That is to say, it feels like the folk-Greek/Olympian cosmogony is syncretized with itself in multiple contradictory ways and I am having a very difficult time making sense of it. Perhaps that's why my angel's directed me so much towards the philosophers, which tend to prize consistency...
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I generally find Rhea very confusing. In some contexts, she is Mother of the Gods (e.g. Kybele, Isis); but in others, she is Earth (e.g. Gaia, Demeter)... except that Demeter is also Isis, but Gaia is more fundamental than any of the above, and Rhea is also explicitly made the mother of both Demeter and Isis. That is to say, it feels like the folk-Greek/Olympian cosmogony is syncretized with itself in multiple contradictory ways and I am having a very difficult time making sense of it. Perhaps that's why my angel's directed me so much towards the philosophers, which tend to prize consistency...