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Zeus is a lightning god and a heavenly ruler and is the king of gods and men who reign in the summit of Mount Olympus. The symbol of this god is lightning, his sacred beasts are eagles and buffaloes while the sacred tree is an oak tree. Matches Zeus in Roman mythology is Jupiter who is also a lightning god.
Zeus was the son of Titan Cronos and Rhea and he was the youngest among his siblings. When Cronos knows the prophecy that his power will be overthrown by his own descendants, the Titan swallows all the children born to Rhea to prevent the prophecy from happening. He swallowed all the brothers Zeus, Hestia, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter and Hera.
Rhea also had her sixth child. He was upset because his son would receive the same fate as his other children. So he fled to Crete Island and gave birth to his son there. Rhea named the baby Zeus. After that he took a piece of stone and then wrapped it in a cloth and gave it to Cronos and admitted that it was his son. The Titan believed in the whole of Rhea and then swallowed the rock.
In Crete, Zeus is hidden in a cave at Mount Ida. He was reared and nurtured by Adamanthea's nymph and earned milk from a goat named Amalthea. The Korybantes were nine warriors who glorified Rhea singing and dancing while hitting the shield with a spear when the baby Zeus was crying for cries not to be heard by Cronos.
When he was grown up, Zeus had a face with his father and made Cronos vomit all his siblings by giving the Titan a potion made by Metis. Zeus frees the Cyclops and the Hecatoncheires from Tartarus after killing the guarding Campe dragon. In return, the Cyclops created for Zeus a weapon of thunder. The gods and his brothers with the help of the Cyclops and the Hecatoncheires fought with the Titan in an epic battle called Titanomachy. The Titan were defeated and their reign was over. Zeus imprisoned the Titan at Tartarus while Atlas was punished by having to shoulder the sky forever.
After the Titan defeated, the universe was ruled by the young deities called the Olympians. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades do lottery to determine the territories of power. Zeus earns the sky and controls the weather, Poseidon reigns over the ocean while Hades becomes king of the dead and the spirits in the Underworld.
Gaia was very upset because Zeus locked up his children (the Titanes) in Tartarus. When Zeus occupies the throne of the gods, Gaia sends his terrible son Typhon and Echidna to destroy Olympus. The god manages to defeat Typhon and traps it under Mount Etna in Sicily but Zeus lets Echidna and his children live.
Zeus has been married three times. First, Zeus married Oceanid Metis, who was a Titan. Metis also contains a child of the god but Gaia predicted that the child would be more intelligent than Zeus and would defeat the god. Zeus, who did not want this prophecy, was going to swallow a pregnant Metis. At the time of the birth, Zeus felt an extraordinary headache. He told Titan Prometheus to split his head with the ax. From the head of Zeus, a complete figure of a woman wearing armor. The woman is Athena.
His wife is also a Titan, Themis. Through it, Zeus became the father of the Horai, three goddesses representing law and justice namely Dike (goddess of justice), Eirene (goddess of peace) and Eunomia (goddess of law).
Zeus also married his brother, hera
Zeus is the most important god of mythology and the strongest among the gods. Therefore, he has many titles that show his majesty. Among them are Zeus Hospites (protector of guests), Zeus Philoxenon (protector of aliens), Zeus Aegiduchos (Aegis armor bearer), Zeus Horkios (guardians of oath), Zeus Agoraeus (trade protector), Zeus Olympios (god of Olympian), Astrapaios ), Brontios (drivers) and so on.
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