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But he again bound and shut them up in Tartarus, and wedded his sister Rhea; and since
both Earth and Sky foretold him that he would be dethroned by his own son, he used to
swallow his offspring at birth. His firstborn Hestia he swallowed, then Demeter and Hera,
and after them Pluto and Poseidon.1
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