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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 being overthrown. [6] After the Titanomachy, the 10-year war among the immortals, she was pursued by Zeus and they got married.
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 ...
To prevent this, Saturn ate his children moments after each was born, eating the gods Vesta , Ceres , Juno , Pluto , and Neptune . His wife Ops ( Rhea ) eventually hid his sixth child and third son, Jupiter ( Zeus ), on the island of Crete , deceiving Saturn by offering a stone wrapped in swaddling in his place.
To try to prevent this, Cronus swallows all of his children as soon as they are born. Rhea seeks out help in hiding her youngest son, Zeus, Gaia hears her distress and gives her a perfectly infant shaped rock that weights and looks the same as a baby to give to Cronus. Zeus later goes on to defeat his father and become the leader of the Olympians.
Apart from he and Gaia (now reconciled?) [48] warning their son Cronus that he is destined to be overthrown by one of his children, advising their daughter Rhea, Cronus's wife, to go to Lyctus on Crete to give birth to Zeus, so that Zeus would be saved from Cronus, and advising Zeus to swallow his first wife Metis, so that Zeus would not in ...
Because Cronus had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overthrown by one of his children, he swallowed each of the children born to him by his Titan older sister, Rhea. But when Rhea was pregnant with her youngest child, Zeus, she sought help from Gaia and Uranus. When Zeus was born, Rhea gave Cronus a stone wrapped in ...
When Cronus learnt that he was destined to be overthrown by one of his children like his father before him, he swallowed all the children Rhea bore as soon as they were born. 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 ...
The Hesiodic succession myth describes how Uranus, the original ruler of the cosmos, hid his offspring away inside Gaia, but was overthrown by his Titan son Cronus, who castrated Uranus, and how in turn, Cronus, who swallowed his children as they were born, was himself overthrown by his son Zeus, whose mother had given Cronus a stone wrapped in ...