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When the sixth child, Zeus, was born, Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save them and to eventually get retribution on Cronus for his acts against his father and children. Rhea secretly gave birth to Zeus in Crete , and handed Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, also known as the Omphalos Stone, which he promptly swallowed, thinking ...
His wife Ops eventually hid his sixth child and third son, Jupiter , on the island of Crete, deceiving Saturn by offering a stone wrapped in swaddling in his place. Unlike the painting, the myths usually portray Saturn/Kronos swallowing his children, and later vomiting them up alive after swallowing the stone, rather than violently tearing them ...
The motif of Zeus swallowing Metis can be seen as a continuation of the succession myth: it is prophesied that a son of Zeus will overthrow him, just as he overthrew his father, but whereas Cronos met his end because he did not swallow the real Zeus, Zeus holds onto his power because he successfully swallows the threat, in the form of the ...
Soon, Zeus could not take his headache anymore and had the smith god Hephaestus - a son of Hera, now his queen - cut his head open to let out whatever was in there on the river Triton's banks. Athena emerged from Zeus's mind full grown, wearing the armor her mother made her. She was soon made the goddess of wisdom, warfare, and crafts.
When Rhea had her sixth and final child, Zeus, she spirited him away and hid him in Crete, giving Cronus a rock to swallow instead, thus saving her youngest son who would go on to challenge his father's rule and rescue the rest of his siblings. Following Zeus's defeat of Cronus and the rise of the Olympian gods into power, Rhea withdraws from ...
Back on Mount Olympus, Queen of the Gods Hera, Zeus’ wife (and sister!), seems to tolerate Zeus’ neuroses. Zeus’ son Dionysus (The God of Pleasure) had a human mother until Hera turned her ...
(R.I.P., kitty.) Oh, and Zeus also sets fire to Hera’s bees — which include the mothers of many of his children. Dude’s on a tear! Poseidon confesses his love for Hera and she scolds him in ...
Cow, then back into woman: Zeus Zeus fell in love with the Argive princess Io, but Hera was quick to notice her husband's infidelity, so Zeus transformed the girl into a cow to hide her from her. Hera sent a gadfly to torment Io through the entire Mediterranean; Io only turned back into a human after Zeus begged Hera to let her go. Lycaon ...