Rhea was a Greek Titan and mother of the Olympian gods. After her husband Cronus consumed their first five children, she saved her sixth baby, Zeus, by giving Cronus a stone to swallow instead.
Cybele was known in Greece from an early period and was often identified with other mother goddesses such as Rhea or Demeter. She was typically imagined riding in a lion-drawn chariot, wearing a tall, turreted crown, or holding a tympanum (a hand drum). One well-known myth told of how Cybele caused her young lover Attis to castrate himself.
The Titans were the first children of the primordial Greek deities Uranus and Gaia. Two of these Titans, Cronus and Rhea, became the parents of the original generation of Olympians, who overthrew the Titans, just as the Titans had overthrown Uranus before them.
In this section, you will find information highlighting Tennessee’s beginnings to statehood and the formation of government, as well as state symbols and the State Constitution. For more about Tennessee history, the Tennessee Blue Book provides an excellent overview of our state’s great history.
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NASHVILLE – Tennessee’s unemployment rate continues to track well below the national average, according to the latest data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD).