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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Zeus



Zeus the God of the Gods! Zeus is the king of Mt. Olympus, the kingdom of the Gods. Now for Zeus it is only fair to start at the beginning of his story, before mortal humans were on the Earth there was a group of Gods the first ever known as the Titans. The Titans then had children. There was one Titan named Cronus who married his sister Rhea, together they had 5 children, Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, and Hestia. Hades was the first child now, Cronus was told that his throne would be overturned by one of his children. Now to avoid this he swallowed each one whole. Zeus was then born and Rhea was tired of her husband eating her children so she hatched a plan to keep Zeus alive. Now just to clear this up the other children were not killed when swallowed because they are immortal. They just grew up inside of their father's stomach. So Rhea's plan was to give Cronus a rock instead of Zeus and then take Zeus to the island of Calypso. Cronus took the rock without even looking. Zeus then grew up and hatched his own plan to get his siblings back. He made a potion and pretended to be one of Cronus' servants. He gave him the potion and Cronus threw up all of his children and the rock Rhea had gave him. The children then teamed up and fought a battle that lasted 10 years known as the Techonomy.

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