BIRTH OF THE OTHER 4 GODS

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So Rhea had another baby—a little girl even cuter than the first. Rhea named her Demeter.

                                                      DEMETER                 

Rhea dared to hope. Demeter was so adorable, maybe she would melt Kronos’s heart. He couldn’t possibly feel threatened by this little bundle of joy.

Kronos took the child in his arms and saw right away that Demeter was another goddess. She glowed with an aura even more powerful than Hestia’s. She was trouble with a capital tau( an greek alphabet).

This time he didn’t hesitate. He opened his jaws and swallowed her down.

Cue the screaming fit from Mom. Cue the apologies.

Rhea was seriously tempted to call out her lions, but now the stakes were even higher. Kronos had two kids in there.TWO KIDS!

I know, you’re thinking it must’ve been getting crowded in the Titan lord’s gut. But gods are kind of flexible about their size. Sometimes they are huge. Sometimes they’re no bigger than humans.

I was not there in Kronos’s stomach, thankfully, but I’m guessing the little immortal babies just made themselves small. They continued to mature, but they didn’t get any bigger. They were like springs getting wound up tighter and tighter, hoping that someday they would get to burst out fully grown. And every day praying that Kronos wouldn’t have hot chili sauce with his dinner.

Poor Rhea. Kronos insisted that the next baby would be better!

“The next child will be better,” he promised. “No more swallowing babies!”

                                                       HERA

The third kid? Also a girl. Rhea named her Hera, and she was the least Titan-ish, most godly yet. Rhea was indeed the Great Mother. In fact, she was a little too good at it. Every child she had was better and more powerful than the one before.

Rhea didn’t want to take little Hera to Kronos, but it was a tradition back then. Dad got to hold the baby. It was one of those natural laws that Themis always insisted on. (There was also a natural law against eating your kids, but Themis was too afraid to mention that to Kronos.)

And so Rhea mustered her courage. “My lord, may I present your daughter Hera.”

GULP.

This time, Rhea left the throne room without throwing a fit. She was too numb with pain and misery and disbelief. She had married a pathological liar who was also a murderer and a cannibal baby-eater.

Could things be any worse?

Oh, wait! He was also the king of the universe with lots of powerful henchmen, so she couldn’t fight back or run away.

Yeah. Things were worse.

Two more times she gave birth to perfect, lovely god babies. The fourth child was a boy named Hades.

                                                     HADES

  ( I apologise, these are the decent ones that I could dig up in printrest, others are from The Disney movie Hercules)

 Rhea hoped Kronos would let him live, because every dad wants a son to play catch with, right? Nope. Down the hatch, matey!

The fifth child was another boy, Poseidon . Same story.

SNARF.

                                                    POSEIDON 🔱

At this point, Rhea fled the palace. She wept and wailed, she had no idea what to do! and finally, Rhea visited her sister Phoebe at the Oracle of Delphi, but sadly, even the Oracle had no advice for her. Rhea ran to the nearest meadow, threw herself on the ground, and began to cry. Suddenly she heard whispering from the earth. It was the voice of Gaea, who was still asleep; but even in her dreams the Earth Mother couldn’t stand to hear the wailing of her lovely daughter.

When you are ready to deliver your next child, Gaea’s voice whispered, "go to Crete to give birth! You will find help there! This child will be different! He will save the others!" 

Rhea sniffled and tried to pull herself together. “Where is Crete?”

It’s an island in the south, Gaea’s voice said. You take the Ionian Sea down to, like, Kalamata. Then you turn left and—You know what? You’ll find it.

When the time came ,

“My lord Kronos,” she said, “I am off to Crete. I will be back with the baby.”

“Crete?” Kronos scowled. “Why Crete?”

“Um, well,” Rhea said, “you know how Koios and Phoebe sometimes have glimpses of the future?”

“Yeah?”

“I didn’t want to spoil the surprise, but they prophesied that if I had this child in Crete, it would please you best of all! And of course, my lord, I am all about pleasing you!”

Kronos frowned. He was suspicious, but he also thought: Hey, I’ve eaten five kids, and Rhea is still here. If she were going to try something fishy, she would’ve done it already.

Plus, by now his thoughts were getting a little sluggish. He had five young gods shifting around in his gut, fighting for space, so he always felt like he’d just eaten a massive dinner and needed a nap.

I mean, five gods in one stomach - Dang. That’s enough for doubles tennis, including a ref. They’d been down there so long, they were probably hoping Kronos would swallow a deck of cards or a Monopoly game.

Anyway, Kronos looked at Rhea and said, “You’ll bring the baby to me immediately?”

“Of course.”

“Okay off you go. By the way where is Crete?

"Not sure " she replied "I'll find it with google maps!"

So guys that's it for today, Off I go. This is Artemis signing off. Au revoir mon Amis.

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