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Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete, handing Cronus a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he promptly swallowed.
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Coates uses the metaphor of a vessel with contents poured into it and then shattered to demonstrate the sadness and violence of Prince's death: "And think of how that vessel was taken, shattered on the concrete, and all of its holy contents, all that had gone into him, sent flowing back into the earth"
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