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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 ...
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]
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 ...
Hera is Zeus' wife — and also his sister — and is the queen of the gods, as well as the goddess of fertility and marriage. She is often portrayed as a woman who scorns and brutally punishes ...
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]
Y ou would expect the king of the gods to have a pretty massive ego, but even by that standard, Zeus is a real piece of work. He swallowed his first wife, Metis, whole. He swallowed his first wife ...
Zeus then establishes and secures his realm through the apportionment of various functions and responsibilities to the other gods, and by means of marriage. Finally, by swallowing his first wife Metis, who was destined to produce a son stronger than himself, Zeus is able to put an end to the cycle of succession.