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| | Rhea 1, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com |
 | | When this procedure had become routine, Rhea 1, tired of being so often pregnant yet never a mother, decided to deceive her husband by wrapping a stone in clothes and giving it to him to swallow, as if it were the newborn child Zeus. |
 | | And the Arcadians also asserted that in a wonderful mountain near Methydrium, Rhea 1 enlisted, when she was pregnant with Zeus, the giant Hopladamus as an ally against Cronos, whom she feared might attack her, adding that it was in that place that the substitution of a stone for the child took place. |
 | | 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. |
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