In one account the other gods were so afraid of Typhoon that they transformed themselves into animals to hide from his wrath. However, all the myths agree that Zeus overcame the creature known as the enemy of the gods. In most of the sources, the King of the Gods cast the huge serpentine monster into Tartarus with his other enemies. However, other stories state that Zeus entombed him under Mount Vesuvius and that the flames that occasionally shot from the volcano are from Typhoon.<ref>Graves, p. 113</ref>
====Conclusion====Zeus became King of the Gods and the absolute ruler of the world by brute force and strategy. He was very cunning and used his ability to see what the future held to become the foremost Olympian. The Succession Myths demonstrate that Zeus was the monarch of the heavens and the earth because he was the most powerful. The Greeks like Like other peoples, such as the Babylonians , the Greeks conceived of their gods as powerful entities and not spiritual beings. They respected them because of their power and goodness. Zeus in In the series of 'Succession Myths' , Zeus was ruthless when it came to the seize of power. However, he arguably did not have any choice. He rose to power, by waging a war against the older gods, the Titans , and defending it against them and the monster Typhoon. These myths are similar to other myths around the worldworldwide, which focus on the rise to supremacy of a ruler-god.
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