(or Ria meaning "she who flows") was the Titaness daughter of Uranus and of Gaia. She was sister to Cronus and mother to Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus. She was strongly associated with Cybele. In Roman mythology, she was Magna Mater deorum Idaea and identified with Ops.In art, Rhea was usually depicted on a chariot drawn by two lions, not always distinguishable from Cybele. Her husband, Cronus, castrated their father, Uranus. After this, Cronus re-imprisoned the Hecatonchires, the Gigantes and the Cyclopes and set the monster Campe to guard them. He and Rhea took the throne as King and Queen of the gods. This time was called the Golden Age as the people of the time had no need for laws or rules; everyone did right and as such, there was no need. Cronus sired several children by Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born, since he had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own son as he had overthrown his own father. But when Zeus was about to be born, Rhea sought Uranus and Earth to devise a plan to save him, so that Cronus would get his retribution for his acts against Uranus and his own children. Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete, handing Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes which he promptly swallowed. Then she hid Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida in Crete. According to varying versions of the story: 1. He was then raised by Gaia. 2. He was suckled by a goat named Amalthea, while a company of Kouretes, soldiers, or smaller gods danced, shouted and clapped their hands to make noise so that Cronus would not hear the baby's cry. 3. He was raised by a nymph named Adamanthea. Since Cronus ruled over the earth, the heavens and the sea, she hid him by dangling him on a rope from a tree so he was suspended between earth, sea and sky and thus, invisible to his father. In Greek mythology, Zeus forced the Titan Cronus to disgorge the other children in reverse order of swallowing: first the stone, which was set down at Pytho under the glens of Parnassus to be a sign to mortal men, then the rest. In some versions, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the babies, or Zeus cut Cronus' stomach open. Then Zeus released the brothers of Cronus, the Gigantes, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes, who gave him thunder and the thunderbolt and lightning, which had previously been hidden by Gaia. Together, Zeus and his brothers and sisters with the Gigantes, Hecatonchires and Cyclopes overthrew Cronus and the other Titans. In Homer, Rhea is the mother of the gods, though not a universal mother like Cybele, the Phrygian Great Mother, with whom she was later identified. The original seat of her worship was in Crete. There, according to legend, she saved the new-born Zeus, her sixth child, from being devoured by Kronos, by substituting a stone for the infant god and entrusting him to the care of her attendants the Curetes. These attendants afterwards became the bodyguard of Zeus and the priests of Rhea, and performed ceremonies in her honour. In historic times, the resemblances between Rhea and the Asiatic Great Mother, Phrygian Cybele, were so noticeable that the Greeks accounted for them by regarding the latter as only their own Rhea, who had deserted her original home in Crete and fled to the mountain wilds of Asia Minor to escape the persecution of Kronos (Strabo. 469, 12). The reverse view was also held (Virgil, Aeneid iii), and it is probably true that cultural contacts with the mainland brought to Crete the worship of the Asiatic Great Mother, who became the Cretan Rhea. In Greek mythology, Rhea's symbol is the moon. However, in Roman mythology, her symbol is known as the lunar (which would seem to mean "Moon"). She has another symbol, the swan, because it is a gentle animal. Also, her other symbol is two lions, supposedly the ones that pull her chariot. Rhea ।
रयि :--- रय--इन् । १ जले २ धने च निघण्टुः ।
रय, ङ गतौ । इति कविकल्पद्रुमः ॥ (भ्वा०-आत्म०- सक०-सेट् ।) ङ, रयते । इति दुर्गादासः ॥
रयः, पुं, (रयते अनेनेति । रय + “पुंसि संज्ञायां घः प्रायेण ।” ३ । ३ । ११८ । इति घः । रीणा- त्यनेनेति वा । री गतौ + घप्रत्ययेन साधुरिति ।) वेगः । इत्यमरः । १ । १ । ६७ ॥ प्रवाहः । यथा, -- “प्रवाहः पुनरोघः स्याद्वेणी धारा रयश्च सः ॥” इति हेमचन्द्रः ॥ (यथा, महाभारते । २ । १७ । ६ । “कथमन्तं न गच्छेम वृक्षस्येव नदीरयाः ॥” पुरुरवसः पुत्त्रभेदः । यथा, भागवते । ९ । १५ । १ । “ऐलस्य चोर्व्वशीगर्भात् षडासन्नात्मजा नृप । आयुः श्रुतायुः सत्यायू रयोऽथ विजयो जयः ॥”)
अमरकोशः
रय पुं।
वेगः
समानार्थक:रंहस्,तरस्,रय,स्यद,जव,जवन,जूति,वेग,आतञ्चन
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शरीरस्था इमे रंहस्तरसि तु रयः स्यदः। जवोऽथ शीघ्रं त्वरितं लघु क्षिप्रमरं द्रुतम्.।
: शीघ्रम्, अविरतम्
पदार्थ-विभागः : , गुणः, परिमाणः
वाचस्पत्यम्
'''रय'''¦ गतौ भ्वा॰ आ॰ सक॰ सेट्। रयते अरयिष्ट। अरयिढ्वम् अरयिध्वम्।
'''रय'''¦ पु॰ रय--अच्।
१ वेगे अमरः।
२ प्रवाहे च।
शब्दसागरः
रय¦ m. (-यः)
1. Speed, velocity.
2. The stream or current of a river.
3. Violence, ardour, zeal. E. रय् to go, घ aff.
Apte
रयः [rayḥ], [रय्-अच्]
The stream of a river, current; जम्बूकुञ्जप्रतिहतरयं तोयमादाय गच्छेः Me.2.
Force, speed, velocity; तोयस्येवाप्रतिहतरयः सैकतं सेतुमोघः U.3.36; Bhāg. 5.3.14.
Zeal, ardour, vehemence, impetuosity.
Monier-Williams
रय m. ( री)the stream of a river , current MBh. Ka1v. etc.
रय m. quick motion , speed , swiftness(675252 येणind. and 675252.1 यात्ind. quickly , immediately , straightway) Ka1v. Pur.
रय m. course(See. संवत्सरर्)
रय m. impetuosity , vehemence , ardour , zeal , S3is3. BhP.
रय m. N. of a son of पुरू-रवस्BhP.
रय m. of another king Cat.
Purana index
--son of पुरूरवस् and ऊर्वशी. Father of Eka. भा. IX. १५. 1-2. [page३-057+ ३४]
Purana Encyclopedia
RAYA : A King of the lunar dynasty and son of Purūra- vas. Urvaśī, who had many sons like Āyus, Śrutāyus, Satyāyus, Raya, Vijaya and Jaya. (Bhāgavata, 9th Skandha).
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