Talk:Rhea (mythology)
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This entry is a mix of Rhea, Gaia, Cybele, mixing late Greek and Roman sources with misidentifications, making Rhea a Titan, etc. --like a Baroque painted ceiling. 'Her husband, Cronus, castrated her (and his) father, Uranus.' is unmatchable. Could someone mention a Greek/Roman source for some of the statements? Try [1] (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/)
I dared not interfere here before, but now I've deleted the following two bits:
- Rhea became offended by the antics of Celmis and asked Zeus to turn him into a lump of steel or diamond. Zeus obliged. This might be a garbled second-hand hearing of som,ething from Ovid's Metamorphoses but has little to do with the nature of Rhea.
- Greek mythologans say that Rhea was only the first goddess in the Golden Age, but before that came the Gulu Age, the Black Ages, and the Simple Ages. Roman mythologans agree with this, but they have different names for these ages- the Ruttut Age, the War Ages, and the Simple Ages. Ah, The Simple Age! Oh those mythologans!
- I haven't a clue what the second paragraph means, but the first seems relevant and helps to characterize her, assuming it is true. You seem to think it isn't, and thus I support its deletion until the facts (as much as there are facts in Greek mythology) can be more appropriately and accurately described. Tuf-Kat 23:35, Jan 8, 2004 (UTC)
