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====The birth of Zeus====
[[File: Titan three.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Mount Olympus]]
Naturally, Rhea was enraged by Cronus' plan to murder her child so she came up with a plan. She sought the help of Gaia, who told her what to do. When she was about to give birth to Zeus she secretly went to the island of Crete. Here she delivered the future king of the Olympians in a cave in Mount Ida. This was a well-known pilgrimage site in Ancient Greece and can still be visited, to this day. Now Cronus was aware that Zeus was born, and he demanded that the infant be handed over to him. Rhea and Gaia had devised a clever strategy she found a huge stone and wrapped it in swaddling clothes and they present this to the Cronus and told him that this was the infant. Cronus swallowed the stone and was satisfied that Zeus was no longer a threat. In reality, he grew up in Crete, according to a popular version of the myth by the 7th century BC poet Hesiod.<ref>Hesiod, Theogony, 480</ref>. There is no agreement in the sources as to who raised the young God, in some sources it was a nymph and in others it was his grandmother Gaia. Zeus grew up to be a mighty god in Crete.
====Cronus and the Olympians====