greek-mythologies:Greeks as Greek Gods     [Rhea (Ρέα) - Betty Arvaniti (Μπέτυ Αρβανίτη)]“[Kronos (C

greek-mythologies:Greeks as Greek Gods     [Rhea (Ρέα) - Betty Arvaniti (Μπέτυ Αρβανίτη)]“[Kronos (Cronus)] then married his sister Rhea. Because both Ge (Gaea, Earth) and Ouranos (Uranus, Sky) had given him prophetic warning that his rule would be overthrown by a son of his own, he took to swallowing his children at birth. He swallowed his first-born daughter Hestia, then Demeter and Hera, and after them Plouton (Pluton) [Haides] and Poseidon. Angered by this, Rhea, when she was heavy with Zeus, went off to Krete (Crete) and gave birth to him there in a cave on Mount Dikte (Dicte). She put him in the care of both the Kouretes (Curetes) and the Nymphai (Nymphs) Adrasteia and Ide (Ida), daughters of Melisseus. These Nymphai nursed the baby with the milk of Amaltheia, while the armed Kouretes stood guard over him in the cave, banging their spears against their shields to prevent Kronos from hearing the infant’s voice. Rhea meanwhile gave Kronos a stone wrapped in the swaddling-cloths to swallow in place of his newborn son.”- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 4-5 (trans. Aldrich) -- source link

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