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Metis was both a threat to Zeus and an indispensable aid. [8] He lay with her, but immediately feared the consequences. It had been prophesied that she would bear a daughter who would be wiser than her mother, and then a son more powerful than his father, who would eventually overthrow Zeus and become king of the cosmos in his place. [ 9 ]
Zeus (/ zj uː s /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach.
Zeus, by Gaia's advice, was elected king of the gods, and he distributed various honors among the gods. [25] Zeus then married his first wife Metis, but when he learned that Metis was fated to produce a son which might overthrow his rule, by the advice of Gaia and Uranus, Zeus swallowed Metis (while still pregnant with Athena). And so Zeus ...
The daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid Metis, she rose from her father's head fully grown and in full battle armor. Her symbols include the owl and the olive tree. Hephaestus: Vulcan: Master blacksmith and craftsman of the gods; god of the forge, craftsmanship, invention, fire and volcanoes. The son of Hera, either by Zeus or through ...
Metis, Zeus' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed; Styx, goddess of the river Styx; Theia, mother of the Cercopes; For a more complete list, see List of Oceanids; Oceanus (Ὠκεανός), god of the Earth-encircling river Oceanus (the ocean), the fountain of all the Earth's freshwater
The definitions and usage of the terms "Métis", "Metis", and "métis" (lowercase) have at times been controversial and contentious; however, there are also legal definitions. [9] Descendants of English or Scottish and Indigenous were in some cases also historically called "half-breeds" or "country born".
Hera sent her Titans to rip the baby apart, from which he was called Zagreus ("Torn in Pieces"). Zeus rescued the heart; or, the heart was saved, variously, by Athena, Rhea, or Demeter. [162] Zeus used the heart to recreate Dionysus and implant him in the womb of Semele—hence Dionysus became known as "the twice-born". Certain versions imply ...
Apollodorus, 1.1.6 makes the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the nurses of Zeus, daughters of Melisseus, leader of the Kuretes of Crete: Idyia or Eidyia [60] [61] Leucippe Libye [62] Lyris Lysithoe [63] Mother of Heracles by Zeus in some myths. [64] Melia (consort of Apollo) [65] See also (below) the Argive Oceanid Melia who was the consort of Inachus