Do you think that Demeter was Rhea/Cybele's favourite daughter/child because of their similarities? Do you think Rhea sees herself in her daughter perhaps?
Hera I don't think gets along with Rhea really, I don't think she approves of her mother's crazy wine frenzied wilderness cult where men castrate themselves
Hera and Rhea definitely don’t get along but I’m not sure who Rhea’s favorite would be bc it could be argued either way. It could be Hestia bc she was the first, or Demeter bc of their similarities.
I feel that Rhea is particularly close to Demeter. She is one of the few children of hers with whom she gets to interact in ancient Greek literature, first in Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter where Zeus sends Rhea to bring Demeter back among the gods and inform her about how Persephone will spend her time from that moment on: "Joyfully they [Demeter and Rhea] beheld each other and rejoiced in their hearts"; and then in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae where Ceres is visiting her mother when her daughter gets abducted.