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{{pp-semi-protectedquote |smalltext=yes}}{{otheruses}} {{Infobox Greek deityBible verse|Genesis| Image = Statue of Zeus.jpg1| Caption = The [[Statue of Zeus at Olympia1|Statue of Zeus]] at [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]]<br/>[[Phidias]] created the 12&nbsp;m (40&nbsp;ft) tall [[statue]] of '''''Zeus''''' at Olympia about [[435 BC]]. The statue was perhaps the most famous [[sculpture]] in [[Ancient Greece]], imagined here in a [[16th century]] [[engraving]]| Name lang= Zeus | God_of = '''King of the gods''' <br/>'''God of the Sky and Thunder'''| Abode WEB}} = [[Mount OlympusGenesis 1:1]] }}{{Infobox_Contents | Symbol = [[Thunderbolt]], [[Eagle]], [[Bull]] and [[Oak]] | Consort = [[Hera]] | Parents topic_name = [[Cronus]] and [[Rhea (mythology)God |Rhea]]| Siblings subtopics = [[PoseidonCharacter of God]], - [[HadesGod is the creator]], [[DemeterGod is love]], [[HestiaGod is holy]], [[HeraGod is forgiving]]| Children = * [[AresTrinity]], - [[AthenaGod the Father]], [[ApolloJesus Christ]], [[ArtemisHoly Spirit]], * [[Aphrodite]], [[DionysusNames of God]], [[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]], [[Hermes]], [[Heracles]], [[Helen]], [[Hephaestus]], [[Perseus]], [[Minos]], the [[Muse]]s| Mount opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}}| Roman_equivalent = * {{ebd}}* Sermon: [[JupiterLuke 15 - What is God like? (G.G.)]]

'''Zeus''' ({{IPAEng|zjuːs}}; in [[Greek language|Greek]]: [[nominative case|nominative]]: {{Polytonic|Ζεύς}} ''Zeús'' {{IPA|/zdeús/}}, [[genitive case|genitive]]: {{Polytonic|Διός}} ''Diós''; Modern Greek /'zefs/) in [[Greek mythology]] God is the [[king central being of the gods]], the ruler of [[Mount Olympus (Mountain)|Mount Olympus]] and the god of the [[sky father|sky]] and [[List of thunder gods|thunder]]all existence. His symbols are the [[thunderbolt]], [[eagle]], [[bull (mythology)|bull]], and [[oak]]. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the [[ancient Near East]], such as the [[scepter]]. Zeus He is frequently depicted by Greek artists eternal in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty. Zeus was the child of [[Cronus]] that he has no beginning and [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]], and the youngest of his siblingsno end. In most traditions he was married to [[Hera]], although, at the oracle of [[Dodona]], his consort was [[Dione (mythology)Genesis 1|Dione]]: according to the ''[[Iliad]]'', he is the father first chapter of [[Aphrodite]] by Dione. He is known for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including [[Athena]], [[Apollo]] and [[Artemis]], [[Hermes]], [[Persephone]] (by [[Demeter]]), [[Dionysus]], [[Perseus]], [[Heracles]], [[Helen]], [[Minos]], and the [[Muse]]s (by [[Mnemosyne]]); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered [[Ares]], [[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]] and [[Hephaestus]]. His [[Roman mythology|Roman]] counterpart was [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]] and his [[Etruscan mythology|Etruscan]] counterpart [[Tinia]]. In [[Hindu|Hindu mythology]] his counterpart was [[Indrafirst book]] with ever common weapon as [[thunderbolt]]. ==Cult of Zeus=====Panhellenic cults of Zeus===The major center where all Greeks converged to pay honor to their chief god was [[Olympia, Greece|OlympiaBible]]. Their quadrennial [[festival]] featured the famous Games. There was also an altar to Zeus made not of stone, but account is given of ash, from God creating the accumulated remains of many centuries' worth of animals sacrificed there. Outside of universe and the major inter-[[polis]] sanctuaries, there were no modes of worshipping Zeus precisely shared across the Greek world. Most of the titles listed below, for instance, could be found at any number of [[Greek temple]]s from [[Asia Minor]] to [[Sicily]]. Certain modes of ritual were held earth and creating people in common as well: sacrificing a white animal over a raised altar, for instance. [[Image:Statue of Zeus dsc02611-.jpg|thumb|300px|Colossal seated [[Dagon|Marnas]] from [[Gaza]] portrayed in the style of Zeus.Marnas<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06399c.htm Catholic Encyclopedia > Gaza] ; [http://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2004/rhahn.html Johannes Hahn: Gewalt und religiöser Konflikt] ; [http://philologoshis own image.org/__eb-thlatb/chap08.htm#mosue The Holy Land and the Bible]</ref> was the chief divinity of Gaza. Roman period [[Istanbul Archaeology Museum]])]][[Image:Bust of Zeus.jpg|thumb|right|Bust also reveals that God is full of Zeus in the [[British Museum]]]] ===History===Zeus, poetically referred to by the [[vocative]] ''Zeu pater'' ("O, father Zeus"), God is a continuation of *[[Dyeus|{{PIEforgiving|Di̯ēus}}mercy]], the and [[Proto-Indo-European religion|Proto-Indo-European]] god of the daytime sky, also called *{{PIE|Dyeus ph₂tēr}} ("Sky Father").<ref name="Zeus">{{cite web| url=http://www.bartleby.com/61/25/Z0012500.html| title=American Heritage® Dictionary: Zeus| accessdate=2006-07-03}}</ref> The god God is known under this name in [[Rig-Vedalove|Sanskritlove]] (cf. ''for example [[Dyaus Pita|Dyaus/Dyaus Pita]]''), [[Latin]] (cf. ''[[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]]'', from ''Iuppiter'', deriving from the [[PIE]] vocative *{{PIE|dyeu-ph₂tēr}}<ref>{{cite web| url=http1 John 4://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Jupiter| title=Online Etymology Dictionary: Jupiter| accessdate=2006-07-03}}</ref>), deriving from the basic form *''dyeu''- ("to shine", and in its many derivatives, "sky, heaven, god").<ref name="Zeus">{{cite web| url=http://www.bartleby.com/61/25/Z0012500.html| title=American Heritage® Dictionary: Zeus| accessdate=2006-07-03}}</ref> And in [[Germanic mythology|Germanic]] and [[Norse mythology]] (cf. *''[[tiwaz|Tīwaz]]'' > [[Old High German language|OHG]] ''Ziu'', [[Old Norse|ON8]] ''[[Tyr|Týr]]''), together with Latin ''deus'', ''dīvus'' and ''Dis''(a variation of ''dīves''<ref name="Dyeus">{{cite web| url=http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE117.html| title=American Heritage® Dictionary: dyeu| accessdate=2006-07-03}}</ref>), from the related noun *''deiwos''.<ref name="Dyeus">{{cite web| url=http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE117.html| title=American Heritage® Dictionary: dyeu| accessdate=2006-07-03}}</ref> To the Greeks and Romans, the god Millions of the sky was also the supreme god, whereas this function was filled out by [[Odin]] among the [[Germanic tribes]]. Accordingly, they did not identify Zeus/Jupiter with either Tyr or Odin, but with [[Thor]] ({{Unicode|Þórr}}). Zeus is the only deity people in the Olympic pantheon whose name has such a transparent Indo-European etymology.<ref>{{cite book|last=Burkert|title=Greek Religion| year=1985| pages= 321}}</ref> ===Role and epithets===Zeus played a dominant role, presiding over the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] Olympian pantheon. He fathered many of the heroes <!--"and heroines" was sweetly motivated, but can we name even one sired by Zeus?--> and was featured world trust in many of God as their [[Cult (religion)|local cults]]. Though the Homeric "cloud collector" was the god of the sky master and Lord and thunder like his Near-Eastern counterparts, he was also the supreme cultural artifact; in some senses, he was the embodiment of Greek [[religion|religious]] beliefs and the [[archetype|archetypal]] Greek deitytheir saviour. Aside from local epithets that simply designated the Zeus to doing something random at some particular place, the [[epithet]]s or titles applied to Zeus emphasized different aspects of his wide-ranging authority: *'''Zeus Olympios''' emphasized Zeus's kingship over both the gods in addition to his specific presence at the Panhellenic festival at [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]]. * A related title was '''Zeus Panhellenios''' ('Zeus of all the Hellenes'), to whom [[Aeacus]]' famous temple on [[Aegina]] was dedicated. *As '''Zeus Xenios''', Zeus was the patron of hospitality and guests, ready to avenge any wrong done to He is a stranger. *As '''Zeus Horkios'''personal being, he was the keeper of oaths. Exposed liars were made to dedicate a [[sculpture|statue]] to Zeus, often at the sanctuary of Olympia. *As '''Zeus [[Agoraeus]]''', Zeus watched over business at the [[agora]] and punished dishonest traders.*As '''Zeus Aegiduchos''' or '''Aegiochos''' he was the bearer of the [[Aegis]] with which he strikes terror into the impious and his enemies.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' i. 202, ii. 157, 375, &c.</ref><ref>[[Pindar]], ''Isthmian Odes'' iv. 99</ref><ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Poetical Astronomy'' ii. 13</ref> Others derive this epithet from {{polytonic|αίξ}} ("goat") and {{polytonic|οχή}} and take it as an allusion to the legend of Zeus' suckling at the breast of [[Amalthea (mythology)|Amalthea]].<ref>Spanh. ''ad Callim. hymn. who is three in Jov'', 49</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = | contribution = Aegiduchos | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]] | volume = 1 | pages = 26 | publisher = | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smithone -bio/0035.html }}</ref>*As '''Zeus Meilichios''', "Easy-to-be-entreated", he subsumed an archaic chthonic ''[[daimon]]'' propitiated in Athens, [[Meilichios]]. ===Some local Zeus-cults=== In addition to God the Panhellenic titles and conceptions listed above, local cults maintained their own idiosyncratic ideas about the king of gods and men. With the epithet '''Zeus Aetnaeus''' he was worshiped on [[Mount EtnaFather|Mount Aetna]], where there was a statue of him, and a local festival called the Aetnaea in his honor.<ref>Schol. ''ad Pind. Ol.'' vi. 162</ref> Other examples are listed below.*As '''Zeus Aeneius''' or '''Aenesius''', he was worshiped in the island of [[Kefalonia|CephaleniaFather]], where he had a temple on [[Mount Ainos|Mount Aenos]].<ref>Hes. ''ap. Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod.'' ii. 297</ref>*As '''[[Agamemnon (Zeus)Jesus Christ|Zeus Agamemnon]]''' he was worshipped at [[Sparta]]. ====Cretan Zeus==== On [[Crete]], Zeus was worshipped at a number of caves at [[Knossos]], [[IdaSon]] and [[PalaikastroHoly Spirit]]. The stories of [[Minos]] and [[Epimenides]] suggest Bible also reveals that these caves were once used for [[Incubation (ritual)|incubatory]] divination by kings and priests. The dramatic setting of [[Plato]]'s ''Laws'' is along the pilgrimage-route God stands ready to one such site, emphasizing archaic Cretan knowledge. On Crete, Zeus was represented in art as a long-haired youth rather than a mature adult, and hymned as ''ho megas kouros'' "the great youth". With the [[Kouretes]], a band of ecstatic armed dancers, he presided over the rigorous military-athletic training and secret rites of the Cretan ''[[paideia]]''. The Hellenistic writer [[Euhemerus]] apparently proposed a theory that Zeus had actually been a great king of [[Crete]] and that posthumously his glory had slowly turned him come into a deity. The works of Euhemerus himself have not survived, but Christian patristic writers took up the suggestion with enthusiasm. ====Zeus Lykaios in Arcadia===={{details|Lykaia}} The epithet ''Lykaios'' ("wolf-Zeus") is assumed by Zeus only in connection with the archaic festival of the [[Lykaia]] on the slopes of [[Lycaeus|Mount Lykaion]] ("Wolf Mountain"), the tallest peak in rustic [[Arcadia]]; Zeus had only a formal connection<ref>In the founding myth of [[Lycaon (mythology)|Lycaon]]any person's banquet for the gods life when that included the flesh of a human sacrifice, perhaps one of his sons, [[Nyctimus]] or [[Arcas]]Zeus overturned the table and struck the house of Lyceus with a thunderbolt; his patronage at the Lykaia can have been little more than a formula.</ref> with the rituals and myths of this primitive [[rite of passage]] with an ancient threat of [[cannibalism]] and the possibility of a [[werewolf]] transformation for the [[ephebe]]s who were the participants.<ref>A morphological connection to ''lyke'' "brightness" may be merely fortuitous.</ref> Near the ancient ash-heap where the sacrifices took place<ref>Modern archaeologists have found no trace of human remains among the sacrificial detritus, [[Walter Burkert]], "Lykaia and Lykaion", ''Homo Necans'', tr. by Peter Bing (University of California) 1983, p. 90.</ref> was a forbidden precinct in which, allegedly, no shadows were ever cast.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] 8.38.</ref> According to [[Plato]] (''Republic'' 565d-e), a particular clan would gather on the mountain to make a sacrifice every nine years to Zeus Lykaios, person acknowledges him and a single morsel repents of human entrails would be intermingled with the animal's. Whoever ate the human flesh was said to turn into a wolf, and could only regain human form if he did having not eat again of human flesh until the next nine-year cycle had ended. There were games associated with the Lykaia, removed in the fourth century to the first urbanization of Arcadia, [[Megalopolis, Greece|Megalopolis]]; there the major temple was dedicated to Zeus Lykaios. Apollo, too had an archaic wolf-form, ''Apollo Lycaeus'', worshipped in Athens at the Lykeion, or [[Lyceum]], which was made memorable as the site where [[Aristotle]] walked and taught. ====Subterranean Zeus==== Although etymology indicates that Zeus was originally a sky god, many Greek cities honored a local Zeus who lived underground. Athenians and Sicilians honored Zeus ''Meilichios'' ("kindly" or "honeyed") while other cities had Zeus ''Chthonios'' ("earthy"), ''Katachthonios'' ("under-the-earth) and ''Plousios'' ("wealth-bringing"). These deities might be represented as snakes or in human form in visual art, or, for emphasis as both together in one image. They also received offerings of black animal victims sacrificed into sunken pits, as did [[chthonic]] deities like [[Persephone]] and [[Demeter]], and also the [[hero]]es at their tombs. Olympian gods, by contrast, usually received white victims sacrificed upon raised altars. In some cases, cities were not entirely sure whether the ''daimon'' to whom they sacrificed was a hero or an underground Zeus. Thus the shrine at Lebadaea in [[Boeotia]] might belong to the hero [[Trophonius]] or to Zeus ''Trephonius'' ("the nurturing"), depending on whether you believe [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], or [[Strabo]]. The hero [[Amphiaraus]] was honored as ''Zeus Amphiaraus'' at Oropus outside of [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]], and the Spartans even had a shrine to ''Zeus [[Agamemnon]]''his way.

===Oracles [[Character of ZeusGod]]===Although most oracle sites were usually dedicated to [[Apollo]], the [[hero]]es, or various [[goddess]]es like [[Themis]], a few oracular sites were dedicated to Zeus.

====The Oracle at Dodona====The cult Although the mere existence of Zeus at [[Dodona]] in [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]], where there God can be deduced by natural reason his nature is beyond our understanding. He gives life to all and he is evidence the author of religious activity from the second millennium BC onward, centered around a sacred oaklove and forgiveness. When the [[OdysseyJohn 1:4]] was composed (circa [[750s BC|750 BC]]), divination was done there by barefoot priests called describes this beautifully:: ''Selloi'', who lay on the ground and observed the rustling of the leaves and branches ({{Bible verse|John|1|4|lang=WEB}}''Odyssey'' 14.326-7). By the time [[Herodotus]] wrote about Dodona, female priestesses called [[peleiades]] ("doves") had replaced the male priests.

Zeus' consort at Dodona was not God is also completely [[Heraholy]], but and without any evil. At the goddess [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]] &mdash; whose name same time God is a feminine form of "Zeus". Her status as a [[Titan (mythology)|titaness]] suggests to some that she may have been a more powerful pre-Hellenic deity, forgiving and merciful and perhaps the original occupant full of the oraclelove.

After Alexander made a trek into the desert to consult the oracle at Siwa, the figure arose of a ===[[Libyan SibylTrinity]].===

===Zeus and foreign gods===Zeus was equivalent to The Trinity is the Christian [[Roman mythology|Romandoctrine]] god [[Jupiter (godor teaching)|Jupiter]] and associated that describes the three-in the syncretic classical imagination -one (see ''[[interpretatio graeca]]''triune) with various other deitiesnature of God. Although impossible to fully grasp, such as the [[Egyptian mythology|Egyptian]] [[Amun|Ammon]] Bible reveals that there is one and only one God, and also that the [[Etruscan mythologyGod the Father|EtruscanFather]] is God, and yet [[Tinia]Jesus]. He (along with [[Dionysus]]) absorbed the role of Son is God, and also the chief [[Phrygia]]n god [[SabaziosHoly Spirit]] is God. That is, there is one God who eternally exists in the [[Syncretism|syncretic]] deity known in Rome as [[Sabazius]]three distinct persons.

==Quotes=Birth===[[Cronus]] sired several children by [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]]: [[Hestia]], [[Demeter]], [[Hera]], [[Hades]], and [[Poseidon]], but swallowed them all as soon as they were born, since he had learned from [[Gaia]] and [[Uranus (mythology)|Uranus]] that he was destined to be overcome by his own son as he had overthrown his own father— an oracle that Zeus was to hear and avert. But when Zeus was about to be born, Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save him, so that Cronus would get his retribution for his acts against Uranus and his own children. Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete, handing Cronus a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he promptly swallowed.

===Infancy===Rhea hid Zeus Sri Aurobindo, in a cave on [[Mount Ida]] in Crete. According to varying versions of the story:# He was then raised by [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]].# He was raised by a [[goat]] named [[Amalthea (mythology)|Amalthea]], while a company of [[Kouretes]]&mdash; soldiers, or smaller gods&mdash; danced, shouted ''Thoughts and clashed their spears against their shields so that Cronus would not hear the babyAphorisms''s cry. (See [[cornucopia]].)# He was raised by a [[nymph]] named [[Adamanthea]]. Since Cronus ruled over the [[Earth]], the [[heaven]]s and the [[sea]], she hid him by dangling him on a [[rope]] from a [[tree]] so he was suspended between earth, sea and sky and thus, invisible to his father.# He was raised by a [[nymph]] named [[Cynosura]]. In gratitude, Zeus [[Catasterismi|placed her among the stars]].# He was raised by [[Melissa]], : A God who nursed him with [[goat]]'s-milk and honey.# He was raised by a shepherd family under the promise that their sheep would be saved from wolvescannot smile could not have created this humorous universe.

===Zeus becomes king of the gods===Robertson Davies in ''Conversations''After reaching manhood, Zeus forced Cronus to disgorge first the stone (which was set down at [[Pytho]] under the glens of [[Parnassus]] to be a sign to mortal men, the [[Omphalos]]) then his siblings in reverse order of swallowing. In some versions, [[Metis (mythology)|Metis]] gave Cronus : A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an [[emetic]] to force him to disgorge the babies, or Zeus cut Cronus' [[stomach]] open. Then Zeus released the brothers of Cronus, the [[Gigantes]], the [[Hecatonchires]] and the [[Cyclopes]], from their dungeon in [[Tartarus]] (The [[Titans]]; he killed their guard, [[Campe]]. As gratitude, the Cyclopes gave him [[thunder]] and the thunderbolt, or [[lightning]], which had previously been hidden by Gaia.) Together, Zeus and his brothers and sisters, along with the Gigantes, Hecatonchires and Cyclopes overthrew Cronus and the other Titans, in the combat called the [[Titanomachy]]. The defeated Titans were then cast into a shadowy underworld region known as Tartarus. Atlas, one of the titans that fought against Zeus, was punished by having to hold up the skyinordinate value on himself.

After the battle with the Titans, Zeus shared the world with his elder brothers, [[Poseidon]] and [[Hades]], by drawing lotsAlbert Einstein : Zeus got the sky and air, Poseidon the waters, and Hades the world of the dead (the underworld). The ancient Earth, [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]], could not be claimed; she was left to Before God we are all three, each according to their capabilities, which explains why Poseidon was the "earthequally wise -shaker" (the god of earthquakes) and Hades claimed the humans that died. (See also: [[Penthus]])equally foolish

Gaia resented the way Zeus had treated the TitansBenjamin Franklin: God heals, because they were her children. Soon after taking and the throne as king of the gods, Zeus had to fight some of Gaia's other children, doctor takes the [[monster]]s [[Typhon]] and [[Echidna (mythology)|Echidna]]. He vanquished Typhon and trapped him under a mountain, but left Echidna and her children alivefee.

===Zeus and Hera==={{Main|Hera}}Zeus was brother and consort of [[Hera]]C.S. By Hera, Zeus sired [[AresLewis]]: God whispers to us in our pleasures, [[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]] and [[Hephaestus]]speaks in our conscience, though some accounts say that Hera produced these offspring alonebut shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Some also include [[Ilithyia|Eileithyia]] and [[Eris (mythology)|Eris]] as their daughters: God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. The conquests : If God thinks this state of Zeus among [[nymph]]s and war in the mythic mortal progenitors of [[Greeks|Hellenic]] dynasties are famousuniverse a price worth paying for free will... Olympian mythography even credits him with unions with [[Leto]], [[Demeter]], [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]] and [[Maia (mythology)|Maia]]then we may take it it is worth paying.

Among Galileo Galilei (1564 ~ 1642): I do not think it is necessary to believe that the mortals: [[Semele]]same God who has given us our senses, [[Io (mythology)|Io]]reason, [[Europa (mythology)|Europa]] and [[Leda (mythology)|Leda]]. (For more detailsintelligence wished us to abandon their use, see below)giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.

Many myths renders Hera as jealous of his amorous conquests and a consistent enemy of Zeus' mistresses and their children by him. For a timeYiddish proverb, a [[nymph]] named [[Echo (mythology)|Echo]] had the job of distracting Hera from his affairs by incessantly talking: when Hera discovered the deceptionIf God lived on earth, she cursed Echo to repeat the words of otherspeople would break his windows.

===Consorts and children==={{MultiCol}}====By divine mothers====J.R.R. Tolkien{| border="1" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%; width:25%; heightIf you do not believe in a personal God the question:200px"|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"| <center>`What is the purpose of life?'''Mother''' || <center>'''Children'''|- style="height:60px" | [[Ananke (mythology)|Ananke]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>|# [[Moirae]] ([[Fates]])<nowiki>*</nowiki>## [[Atropos]]## [[Clotho]]## [[Lachesis]]|-| [[Demeter]]|# [[Persephone]]# [[Zagreus]]|-| [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]]|#[[Aphrodite]]|-| [[Thalassa]]| [[Aphrodite]]|-| [[Gaia]]†| [[Orion (mythology)|Orion]]|-| [[Hera]]|# [[Ares]]# [[Eileithyia]]# [[Eris (mythology)|Eris]]# [[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]]|-| [[Eos]]| #[[Ersa]]# Carae|-| [[Eris (mythology)|Eris]]| #[[Limos (mythology)|Limos]] (aka Limus)|-|-| [[Leto]]|# [[Apollo]]# [[Artemis]]|-| [[Maia (mythology)|Maia]] | # [[Hermes]]|-| [[Metis (mythology)|Metis]]|# [[Athena]]|-| [[Mnemosyne]]|# [[Muses]] (Original three)## [[Aoide]]## [[Melete]]## [[Mneme]]# [[Muses]] (Later nine)## [[Calliope]]## [[Clio]]## [[Erato]]## [[Euterpe (mythology)|Euterpe]]## [[Melpomene]]## [[Polyhymnia]]## [[Terpsichore]]## [[Thalia]]## [[Urania]]|-| [[Persephone]]|# [[Zagreus]]# [[Melinoe]]|-| [[Selene]]| # [[Ersa]]# [[Nemean Lion]]# [[Pandia]]|-| [[Themis]]|# [[Astraea (mythology)|Astraea]]# [[Nemesis (mythology)|Nemesis]]# [[Horae]]## First Generation### [[Auxo]]### [[Carpo]]### [[Thallo]]## Second Generation### [[Dike (goddess)|Dike]]### [[Eirene (Greek goddess)|Eirene]]### [[Eunomia (goddess)|Eunomia]]## Third generation### [[Pherusa]] ### [[Euporie]] ### [[Orthosie]]# [[Moirae]] ([[Fates]])<nowiki>*</nowiki>## [[Atropos]]## [[Clotho]]## [[Lachesis]]|}is unaskable and unanswerable.

{| border="1" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%; width:25%; height:200px"Emily Dickinson |- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"| <center>'''Mother''' || <center>'''Children'''|- style="height:60px" |-| [[Aegina (mythology)|Aegina]]| [[Aeacus]]|-| [[Alcmene]]| [[Heracles]] ([[Hercules]])|-| [[Antiope (mother of Amphion)|Antiope]]| # [[Amphion]]# [[Zethus]]|-| [[Callisto the Greek myth|Callisto]]| [[Arcas]]|-| [[Carme (mythology)|Carme]]| [[Britomartis]]|-| [[Danaë]]| [[Perseus (mythology)|Perseus]]|- | [[Elara (mythology)|Elara]]|# [[Tityas]]|-| [[Electra (Pleiad)|Electra]]| # [[Dardanus]]# [[Iasion]]|-| [[Europa (mythology)|Europa]]| # [[Minos]]# [[Rhadamanthys]]# [[Sarpedon]]|-| [[Eurynome]]| [[Charites]]([[Graces]])# [[Aglaea]]# [[Euphrosyne (mythology)|Euphrosyne]]# [[Thalia]]|-| [[Himalia (mythology)|Himalia]]|# Kronios# Spartaios# Kytos|-| [[Iodame]]| [[Thebe (mythology)|Thebe]]|-| [[Io (mythology)|Io]]| [[Epaphus]]|-|-|-| [[Lamia]]|-| [[Laodamia]]| [[Sarpedon]]|-| [[Leda (mythology)|Leda]]| # [[Castor and Polydeuces|Polydeuces]] ([[Pollux (mythology)|Pollux]])# [[Castor They say that God is everywhere, and Polydeuces|Castor]]# [[Helen]] [[Sparta|yet we always think of Sparta]] ([[Troy|Him as somewhat of Troy]])|-| [[Maera]]| [[Locrus]]|-| [[Niobe]]| # [[Argus]]# [[Pelasgus]]|-| [[Olympias]]| [[Alexander the Great|Alexander III]] [[Macedon|of Macedon]]|-| [[Plouto]]| [[Tantalus]]|-| [[Podarge]]| # [[Balius]]# [[Xanthus]]|-| [[Pyrrha]]| [[Hellen]]|-| [[Semele]]| [[Dionysus]]|-| [[Taygete]]| [[Lacedaemon]]|-| [[Thalia]]| [[Palici]]|-| Unknown mother| [[Litae]]|-| Unknown mother| [[Tyche]]|-| Unknown mother | [[Ate]]|}{{EndMultiCol}} a recluse.

<nowiki>*</nowiki>The Greeks variously claimed that Catherine Doherty: With God, every moment is the Fates were the daughters moment of Zeus and the Titaness [[Themis]] or of primordial beings like [[Nyx (mythology)|Nyx]], [[Chaos (mythology)|Chaos]] or [[Ananke (mythology)|Anake]]beginning again.

<nowiki>†</nowiki>[[Hermes]] and [[Poseidon]] also played a part in Orion's conception and are also biological fathers of Unknown source: You can live without God, but you better not die without him. He is described as being "Earth-born" and was gestated buried beneath the ground; this is Gaia's domain, though she had no direct involvement in his birth or development. Other versions of his parentage include a version of the former excluding Poseidon and one with solely Poseidon and [[Euryale]] as his parents.

===Zeus miscellany===<!--this needs to be less jejune and judgmental: *Though Zeus could be petty and malicious, he also had a righteous element, perhaps best exemplified in his aid on behalf of [[AtreusRomans 5]] and his murder of [[Capaneus]] for unbridled arrogance. He was also the protector of strangers and travelers against those who might seek to victimize them.:7-->8*Zeus turned [[Pandareus]] to stone for stealing the golden [[dog]] which had guarded him as an infant in the holy Dictaeon Cave of [[Crete]].*Zeus killed [[Salmoneus]] with a thunderbolt for attempting to impersonate him, riding around in a [[bronze]] [[chariot]] and loudly imitating [[thunder]].*Zeus turned [[Periphas]] into an [[eagle]] after his [[death]], as a reward for being righteous and just.*At the marriage of Zeus and Hera, a nymph named [[Chelone (Greek mythology): {{Bible verse|Romans|5|7|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|Romans|Chelone]] refused to attend. Zeus transformed her into a tortoise (chelone in Greek).*Zeus, with Hera, turned King [[Haemus]] and [[Queen Rhodope]] into [[mountain]]s (the [[Balkan mountains]], or Stara Planina, and [[Rhodope mountains]], respectively) for their vanity.*Zeus condemned [[Tantalus]] to eternal torture in Tartarus for trying to trick the gods into eating the flesh of his butchered son.*Zeus condemned [[Ixion]] to be tied to a fiery wheel for eternity as punishment for attempting to violate Hera.*Zeus sunk the [[Telchines]] beneath the sea for blighting the earth with their fell magics.*Zeus blinded the seer [[Phineus]] and sent the [[Harpies]] to plague him as punishment for revealing the secrets of the gods.*Zeus rewarded [[Tiresias]] with a life three times the norm as reward for ruling in his favour when he and Hera contested which of the sexes gained the most pleasure from the act of love.*Zeus punished [[Hera]] by having her hung upside down from the sky when she attempted to drown Heracles in a storm.*Of all the children Zeus spawned, [[Heracles]] was often described as his favorite. Indeed, Heracles was often called by various gods and people as "the favorite son of Zeus", Zeus and Heracles were very close and in one story, where a tribe of earth-born Giants threatened Olympus and the Oracle at Delphi decreed that only the combined efforts of a lone god and mortal could stop the creature, Zeus chose Heracles to fight by his side. They proceeded to defeat the monsters.*[[Athena]] has at times been called his favorite daughter.*His sacred bird was the golden eagle, which he kept by his side at all times. Like him, the eagle was a symbol of strength, courage, and justice.*His favourite tree was the [[oak]], symbol of strength. [[Olive tree]]s were also sacred to him.*[[Zelus]], [[Nike (mythology)5|Nike]], [[Cratos]] and [[Bia (mythology)8|Bia]] were Zeus' [[retinue]].*Zeus condemmed [[Prometheus]] to having his liver eaten by a giant eagle for giving the Flames of Olympus to the mortals.lang=WEB}}

== In Philosophy ==In [[Neoplatonism]], Zeus' relation to the Gods familiar from mythology is taught as the [[Demiurge]] or Divine [[nous|Mind1 John 4:16]]. Specifically within [[Plotinus]]' work the [[Enneads]] <ref>In Fourth Tractate 'Problems of the Soul' The Demiurge : God is identified as [[Zeus]].10love."When under the name of Zeus we are considering the Demiurge we must leave out all notions of stage and progressWhoever lives in love lives in God, and recognize one unchanging and timeless lifeGod in him."</ref>

=== Spoken-word myths — audio files ==={| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" |-! style="background:#ffdead;" | Zeus Myths as told by story tellers|-|[[MediaExodus 3:Zeus and Tantalus, with Poseidon and Pelops - wiki.ogg|'''1. Zeus and Tantalus,''' (including Pelops and Poseidon episode), read by Timothy Carter14]]|-|Bibliography of reconstruction: [[Homer]], ''Odyssey,'' 11.567 (7th c. BCKing James Version); [[Pindar]], ''Olympian Odes,'' 1 (476 BC); [[Euripides]], ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]],'' 12–16 (408 BC); [[Apollodorus]], ''Epitomes'' 2: 1–9 (140 BC); [[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses,'' VI: 213, 458 (AD 8); [[Hyginus]]God said unto Moses, ''Fables,'' 82: Tantalus; 83I AM THAT I AM: Pelops (1st c. AD); [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece,'' 2.22.3 (AD 160–76)|-|[[Media:02-Zeus and Ganymede 2qual.ogg|'''2. Zeus and Ganymedehe said,''' read by Timothy Carter]]|-|Bibliography Thus shalt thou say unto the children of reconstruction: [[Homer]], ''Iliad'' 5.265ff; 20.215–35 (700 BC); Anonymous, ''Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite'' 202ff. (7th c. BC); [[Sophocles]], ''The Colchian Women'' (after [[Athenaeus]], 602) (b. 495 – d. 406 BC); [[Euripides]], ''Iphigenia in Aulis'' (410 BC); [[Apollodorus]], ''Library and Epitome'' iii.12.2 (140 BC); [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''Histories'' 4.75.3 (1st c. BC); [[Virgil]]Israel, ''Aeneid'' 5I AM hath sent me unto you. 252–60 (19 BC); [[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses'' 10.155ff. (AD 1–8); [[Hyginus]], ''Poetica Astronomica''|}

==See also==* [[Achaean Federation]]* [[Deception of ZeusIsaiah 45]]* [[USS Zeus (ARB:5-4)|USS ''Zeus'' 7 (ARB-4King James Version)]]* [[Jupiter (mythology)]]* [[Zeus (Planetarion)]]: I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

==References==Spike Milligan{{Refbegin}}*Burkert, Walter, (1977) 1985. ''Greek Religion'', especially section III.ii.1 (Harvard University Press)*[[Arthur Bernard Cook|Cook, Arthur Bernard]], ''Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion'', (3 volume set), (1914-1925). New York, Bibilo & Tannen: 1964.**Volume 1: ''Zeus, God of the Bright Sky'', Biblo-Moser, June 1, 1964, ISBN 0-8196-0148-9 (reprint)**Volume 2: ''Zeus, God of the Dark Sky (Thunder and Lightning)'', Biblo-Moser, June 1, 1964, ISBN 0-8196-0156-X**Volume 3: ''Zeus, And God of the Dark Sky (earthquakes, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorites)''* [[Maurice Druon|Druon, Maurice]]said, 'Let there be light'The Memoirs of Zeus'', 1964, Charles Scribner's and Sons. (tr. Humphrey Hare)* Farnell, Lewis Richard, ''Cults of the Greek States'' 5 vols. Oxford; Clarendon 1896-1909. Still the standard reference.* Farnell, Lewis Richard, ''Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality, 1921.* [[Robert Graves|Graves, Robert]]; ''[[The Greek Myths]]'', Penguin Books Ltd. (1960 edition)* [[William Mitford|Mitford,William]], ''The History of Greece'', 1784. Cf. v.1, Chapter II, ''Religion of the Early Greeks''* Moore, Clifford H., ''The Religious Thought of the Greeks, 1916.* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/gpr/ Nilsson, Martin P., ''Greek Popular Religion'', 1940.] * Nilsson, Martin P., ''History of Greek Religion'', 1949.* [[Erwin Rohde|Rohde, Erwin]]there was light, ''Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among but the Greeks'', 1925Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.* [[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]], ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', 1870, [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/], William Smith, ''Dictionary'': "Zeus" [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/3655.html]{{Refend}};Footnotes{{Reflist}}

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