Debra

Season: 5, Episodes: 1, Faction: DHARMA Initiative

Overview

Debra was a DHARMA Initiative nurse.

Leadership (Queen)

Childbirth

Sexuality

Fertility (Water)

Fertility (Vegetation)

1977

5×11 – Whatever Happened, Happened

Debra assisted Juliet while operating and caring for a young Ben who was shot by Sayid.

She informed Juliet that Kate was there to donate blood for Ben because she was a universal donor. (“Whatever Happened, Happened”)

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Associated DHARMA Location

Decoded Season 1 & 2 Characters

Kate Austen

James Sawyer

Benjamin Linus

Decoded Season 3 Characters

Juliet Burke

Roger Linus

Decoded Season 5 Characters

Sweet Young Woman

Manager

Key Episode(s) to Decoding the Character

5x11 "Whatever Happened, Happened"

Wiki Info

Rhea was the Titaness daughter of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth, in Greek mythology. She was known as “the mother of gods”. In earlier traditions, she was strongly associated with Gaia and Cybele, the Great Goddess, and was later seen by the classical Greeks as the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses, though never dwelling permanently among them on Mount Olympus. The Romans identified Rhea with the Goddess Ops.

Cronus, Rhea’s Titan brother and husband, castrated their father, Uranus. After this, Cronus re-imprisoned the Hekatonkheires, 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.

Etymology and namesakes

If Rhea is indeed Greek, most ancient etymologists derive Rhea (‘Ρέα) by metathesis from έρα “ground”, but a tradition embodied in Plato and in Chrysippus connected the word with “ῥέω” (rheo), “flow”, “discharge”, which is what LSJ supports. Alternatively, the name Rhea may be connected with words for the pomegranate, ῥόα, later ῥοιά. Mythographer Karl Kerenyi suggested that the consonance might ultimately derive from a deeper, pre-Indo-European language layer: indeed the sign combination RU+JA meaning ‘pomegranate’ is attested in Linear A.

Children

Cronus sired six children by Rhea: Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera and Zeus in that order, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born except Zeus, since he had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own child as he had overthrown his own father. When Zeus was about to be born, however, Rhea sought Uranus and Gaia 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:

He was then raised by Gaia,
He was suckled by a goat named Amalthea, while a company of Kouretes, soldiers, or smaller gods, shouted and clashed their swords together to make noise so that Cronus would not hear the baby’s cry,
He was raised by a nymph named Adamanthea, who fed him goat milk. Since Cronus ruled over the earth, the heavens, and the sea and swallowed all of the children of Rhea, Adamanthea 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.

Zeus forced Cronus to disgorge the other children in the reverse order in which they had been swallowed, the oldest becoming the last, and youngest: 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 Hecatonkheires and the Cyclops, who gave him thunder and lightning, which had previously been hidden by Gaia. Zeus and his siblings, together with the Gigantes, Hecatonkheires, and Cyclopes, overthrew Cronus and the other Titans. Similarly, in later myths, Zeus would swallow Metis to prevent the birth of Athena, but she was born unharmed, out of a wound made in his head by one of the other gods.

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Mythological Family Members & Associated Deities

URANUS (Father)	GAIA (Mother)	CRONUS (Brother/Consort)	ZEUS (Son)	HERA (Daughter)	HESTIA (Daughter)	POSEIDON (Son)
HADES (Son)	DEMETER (Daughter)	ATHENA	CYBELE	AEGAEON	METIS	AMALTHEA
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