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Re: Rheia / Rhea
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I'd pronounce them both as REE-ə, and I'd assume that Rheia was either a mistake or an attempt to be different.I find Rhea a bit uncomfortable, like other goddess names. I knew a Venus once who was plump, stooped, elderly, had never married and always dressed in black; she was an intensely competitive Scrabble player. Didn't work. But, rather a goddess than a flightless bird.
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With Rhea, I don't feel like it really registers as a goddess name to the average person, like Venus or Athena do. Then there isn't the same expectation for the bearer to be goddess like or even particularly interesting.
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