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Greek Mythology Birth of Zeus

In Greek Mythology Zeus is the lord of the sky. This is the crazy story the Greeks used to tell of how they believed his life started out.

Greeks believed Cronos was the leader of the Titans. The Titans had control of the world and had many children.But it all started with a prophecy the Greeks said that claimed one of Crono's sons will overthrow him. So Cronos swallowed his first five children Hades, Hestia, Demeter,Hera and Poseidon. Rhea (Crono's sister/husband) was furious with Cronos because he cept swallowing each one of the babys. So Rhea ploted to trick Cronos so when Rhea had her next baby she brought Cronos a rock in a blanket so Cronos swallowed the rock. But the baby Zeus yes the baby zeus was secretly living on the island of Crete and got raised by nymphs.

When Zeus got older he wanted to defeat Cronos. Zeus grew to be big and strong. Zeus ended up finding a man that gave him a drink that will make Cronos barth out all of the children he swallowed whole then Zeus and his brothers and sisters will be able to DEFEAT him. Cronos furiously found out about and was so mad at Rhea but finally made Zeus his cupbearer.

. Zeus finally got a chance to give Cronos the drink he got from that man. Zeus eventually gave Cronos the drink and he barthed out all his children Hades, Hestia, Demeter, Hera and Poseidon with the children not evan hurt because they were gods. Later they made Zeus there leader and Zeus eventually sent Cronos to Tartarus. If you like this topic you can search it under Greek mythology and etc..