![]() Later, from his forehead was born Athena. She prophesied that she’d give birth to a daughter who’d rule the world. She’d helped the sky god give Cronos a potion that poisoned him, causing him to regurgitate his children. Zeus’s first wife was Metis, a prudent and cunning Titaness. Thus, the three, together, ruled the Earth. Poseidon was given the oceans, and Hades was given the world of the dead or the underworld. Zeus was given dominance of the sky and the air. He won in the end and the defeated were imprisoned in Tartarus, the deepest place on Earth.Īfter the victory, Zeus and his older brothers, Poseidon and Hades, cast lots for world dominance. This confrontation was known as Titanomachy. To establish his rule, Zeus and his brothers, as well as the beings he’d freed, waged a colossal war against the Titans. She also had parts of other dangerous animals protruding from her body. To free these beings, Zeus killed Campe, a monster that was half woman and half sea monster. The myth of Zeus also claims that he released the Cyclopes, giants with only one eye on their foreheads, who were confined in a dungeon in Tartarus. After this, he released the Hecatonchires, giants with 100 arms and 50 faces, who were brothers of Cronos and had been imprisoned in Tartarus. First, came the stone wrapped in swaddling clothes and then his brothers, in the reverse order from which they’d been swallowed. When Zeus became an adult, he forced Cronus to regurgitate everything he’d swallowed. Thus, he was suspended between heaven, earth, and the sea and Cronos couldn’t see him. ![]() So, to hide the little boy, she hung him from a tree with ropes. She knew that Cronus ruled the heavens, the earth, and the sea. Although he has a receptive and rustic aura that occasionally makes Zagreus wish his father were more laid back, Poseidon is quite stormy. ![]() They clashed their weapons when the child cried so that Cronos wouldn’t hear him.Īnother of the most widespread versions of the myth of Zeus indicates that the god was raised by a nymph named Adamanthea. Zeus father, Cronus, swallowed his children at birth because he feared that they would take over his spot on the throne one day. Some young warriors, called Curetes, guarded him. The most traditional indicates that he was nursed by a goat named Amalthea. There are several versions of the childhood of the sky god. ![]()
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