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In myth, Rhea was the wife of the Titan Kronos and Queen of heaven. When her husband heard a prophecy that he would be deposed by one of his children, he took to swallowing each of them as soon as they were born. But Rhea bore her youngest, Zeus, in secret and hid him away in a cave in Krete guarded by shield-clashing Kouretes. In his stead she presented Kronos with a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes which he promptly devoured.
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Rhea was the mother of the gods of Olympus. Ironically it seems that the same story follows the next generation as the previous one. Cronus became very jealous of his children (as did his father), and so made Rhea give him each one to swallow as soon as they were born. Rhea (same as Gaea) was not happy with this, and managed to sneak the god Zeus away after his birth. She managed to fool Cronus by wrapping a rock in a blanket and giving it to him to swallow. Zeus went to grow up and later came back to overthrow his father and become ruler (ironically like his father before him).
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Explanation: Saturn's ragged moon Rhea has one of the oldest surfaces known. Estimated as changing little in the past billion years, Rhea shows craters so old they no longer appear round – their edges have become compromised by more recent cratering. Like Earth's Moon, Rhea's rotation is locked on Saturn, and the above image shows part of Rhea's surface that always faces Saturn. Rhea's leading surface is more highly cratered than its trailing surface. Rhea is composed mostly of water-ice but is thought to have a small rocky core. The above image was taken by the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn.
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It is on account of this noise that Rhea 1, the Mother of the Gods, became the patroness of cymbals, and the lions yoked to her chariot, they say, are those which then roamed in Crete. For the cymbal or tambourine, as well as the castanets, have ever since been used to perform the rites of Rhea 1 or Cybele, the Mother of the Gods. This rites, it has been noticed, have a resemblance with those exhibited in the worship of Dionysus 2, the reason being that this god, having been driven mad by Hera, came to Phrygia and was there purified by Rhea 1, learning from her the rites of initiation, as ... did Oenone 1, Paris' first wife. And there has been no little speculation about these customs, whether they originated in Phrygia or in Crete; for these two have many names in common, like Ida and Dicte. And the same could be said of the DACTYLS, who learned their skill to work iron from Rhea 1; for though they were the attendants of the goddess in Phrygia, they are also related to Crete.
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Although Dr. Rhea's history at Buena Vista University has not been long, she is well on her way to making a mark in the history of the university through her teaching and involvement in student activities. Dr. Rhea came to the BVU campus in the fall of 2001 and immediately began stepping into history. She is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and has served a term as the Faculty Senate Secretary. She became co-advisor of Buena Vista's chapter of College Democrats and is currently the advisor for the Service Learning Program (H.O.W.L.).
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Rhea is heavily cratered with bright whispy markings. Its surface can be divided into two geologically different areas based on crater density. The first area contains craters which are larger than 40 kilometers (25 miles) in diameter. The second area, in parts of the polar and equatorial regions, has craters under 40 kilometers (25 miles) in diameter. This suggests that a major resurfacing event occurred some time during its formation.
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