Get The Goddess Look: Rheia

Rheia: Known as the Mother of the Gods, this daughter of Gaea and Uranus, and mother of Zeus and his siblings, is the goddess of all untamed nature—including forests, mountains, wild animals, and the primal human condition. Ecstatic in her primal dancing, loud with her clashing of cymbals, Rheia is wild yet self-controlled, motherly yet stern, and beautiful though a danger to behold.

Resting upon her woodland throne as a picture of royal matronly beauty, Rheia's sacred symbols include the lion, hawk, silver fir, pine tree, maple, spruce, oak, and instruments such as cymbals and drums. Go wild with these Rheia-approved products that will bring out the animal in you—as well as others.

Fresh Sugar Soap Anniversary Edition
When Rheia and Cronus (her husband) ruled the universe, he would swallow her children for fear that one would grow up to take the throne. Therefore, when she gave birth to Zeus, she hid the infant god in a cave and gave her husband a stone wrapped in cloth instead. Cronus, none the wiser, swallowed the stone and Zeus eventually took the throne by force. Eventually Cronus was thought to have vomited up Zeus' siblings as well as the stone, and it became sacred in and of itself. Fresh offers a sacred stone too, with their shea butter-enriched soap stone wrapped with delicate care and bound by a wire to a semi-precious stone.


Sephora Colorful Eye Shadow Palette
Even to the ancients, the noble lion was considered the ruler of the forest. Therefore, no other could represent Mother Nature more than this majestic creature. Even her chariot was said to be drawn by lions and one sat watchful on either side of her forest throne. Be noble yet natural with Sephora's eyeshadow palettes in Camel Leon and Jungle Chic.


PlantLove™ by Cargo Green Goddess Collection
When the sacred pines of the Great Mother were felled on Mt. Ida (some say the birthplace of Zeus), Rheia loudly mourned their loss with the clashing of cymbals and shrilling wails. She is the goddess of the green. Cargo emulates Rheia's woodland sympathies perfectly with this collection of natural-looking eyeshadows and blushes that will bring out the Green Goddess in you.

DSquared2 She Wood
After Rheia left her husband, Cronus (he was swallowing her kids—it's understandable), she built her own palace, hidden from man, deep in the mountainous forest of Phrygia. Even more than Artemis, her granddaughter, Rheia is the goddess of wild nature, woodlands, and untamed forests. Get the sophisticated and natural scent of the forest goddess with DSquared2's She Wood.


PerriconeMD Pigment Corrective 

According to Ovid, Rheia's lover Attis was transformed into a pine tree (or silver fir) upon his death. Thus, this tree remained sacred to the goddess. It's sacred to PerriconeMD too, who's secret ingredient for antiaging and wrinkle reduction is Maritime Pine tree bark. Get that ambrosial look with PerriconeMD's Pigment Corrective.

-Dax Carver