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Metis was an Oceanid nymph, one of the 3000 daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys, [5] and a sister of the Potamoi (river-gods), which also numbered 3000. Metis gave her cousin Zeus a potion to cause his father Cronus , the supreme ruler of the cosmos, to vomit out his siblings their father had swallowed out of fear of ...
Metis, the personification of intelligence, was Zeus' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed. [7] The Oceanid Doris, like her mother Tethys, was an important sea-goddess. [8]
In addition, the myth can be seen as an allegory for Zeus gaining the wisdom of Metis for himself by swallowing her. [97] In Hesiod's account, Zeus's second wife is Themis, one of the Titan daughters of Uranus and Gaia, with whom he has the Horae, listed as Eunomia, Dike and Eirene, and the three Moirai: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. [98]
These included Metis, Zeus' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed; [12] Eurynome, Zeus' third wife, and mother of the Charites; [13] Doris, the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids; [14] Callirhoe, the wife of Chrysaor and mother of Geryon; [15] Clymene, the wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Menoetius ...
Idyia (Ίδυια), wife of the Colchian king Aeetes, mother of Medea; Leuce, first wife of Hades, became a white poplar tree; Metis, Zeus' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed; Styx, goddess of the river Styx; Theia, mother of the Cercopes; For a more complete list, see List of Oceanids
Zeus, by Gaia's advice, was elected king of the gods, and he distributed various honors among the gods. [25] Zeus then married his first wife Metis, but when he learned that Metis was fated to produce a son which might overthrow his rule, by the advice of Gaia and Uranus, Zeus swallowed Metis (while still pregnant with Athena). And so Zeus ...
These included: Metis, Zeus' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed; [20] Eurynome, Zeus' third wife, and mother of the Charites; [21] Doris, the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids; [22] Callirhoe, the wife of Chrysaor and mother of Geryon; [23] Clymene, the wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Menoetius ...
Zeus was plagued by the same concern, and after a prophecy that the offspring of his first wife, Metis, would give birth to a god "greater than he", Zeus swallowed her. [25]: 98 She was already pregnant with Athena, however, and she burst forth from his head—fully-grown and dressed for war. [25]: 108