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Duties: The Rhea is responsible for Ascension ceremonies. Other responsibilities include approving the membership book and helping to maintain the Coven Book of Shadows. All full moon ceremonies should be given to the Rhea for approval two weeks prior to the Esbat ritual. Spells involving pregnancy, the blessings of infants and the honoring or protection of mothers are the domain of the Rhea. Rhea is the Garden Morale priestess.

 

About Rhea: The mother is the woman who has begun to learn and experience the power to create, give life and teach others. So, when she was learning as the maiden, now she has become the woman who has become experienced enough to begin her own family. Although she is no longer youthful, like the maiden she is also not diminishing in strength, but she does gain in knowledge. Soon, she will become the crone, strong in wisdom and the potent ion of rebirth.

 

Rhea was the Titanis mother of the gods, and a goddess of female fertility, motherhood, and generation. Her name means "flow" and "ease." As the wife of Kronos (Time), she represented the eternal flow of time and generations ; as the great Mother (Meter Megale), the "flow" was menstrual blood, birth waters, and milk. She was also a goddess of comfort and ease, a blessing reflected in the common Homeric phrase "the gods who live at their ease (rhea)."

 

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. Rhea was closely identified with the Anatolian mother-goddess Kybele. They were both depicted as matronly women, usually wearing a turret crown, and attended by lions.