15,697
edits
Changes
no edit summary
Mindful of the prophecy Cronus came up with a strategy to ensure that his children could never threaten or depose him. When they were born, he swallowed them all whole. When Rhea was pregnant with Zeus, he also intended to swallow him, so he would not be a threat.<ref>Hesiod, Theogony, 480</ref>
====The birth How did Zeus avoid the Fate of Zeus==his Siblings? ==
[[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.
