Zeus
grew up to a strong, powerful young god. One day he met the Nymph
Metis
and told or about what happened to his brothers and
sisters. Touched of what he told her she gave him a liquid a kind of
emetic that he should mix in the food of his father, Kronus. Zeus gave the
liquid to Rhea and these mixed it in the food of
Kronus and quite soon he spit all the children he ate before out. They
formed an alliance with Zeus and it started a long and strong battle
against the titans. Zeus free the hundred arms and the Cyclopes from the
Tartaros which supported from there on of course the gods.
The
basis of the Titans was on the mountain Orthres
and Zeus and his alliance had their basis on the mount Olympus. The
Cyclopes gave thunder and lightning to Zeus, Poseidon gave him the trident
and Hades gave him a had which made him invisible.
More
then 10 years they were fighting it is said, but in the Mythology in
generally time have not to be seen so serious and exactly. At the end the
Olympian defeat Kronus and the Titans However not all the Titans were
fighting with Kronus, Oceanus and Prometheus for example, all the other
were locked in the Tartaros and closely guarded by the hundred arms.
It
is said, that Zeus and Kronus become reconciled, if you think about a war
between gods, nobody will die anyway.
Kronos got transferred to the island of the saints, you
can imagine this island like an old peoples home for gods. Here he became
mayor for all time.
Atlas, the son of the Titan
Iapetros who fought together with Kronus, instead got punished
really hart. Zeus send him to the border between Chaos and night and he
had to carry the whole earth and the sky. Also
it is said about Atlas, that once upon a time he was the King of an
enchant island in the middle of the Ocean, Atlantis.
The
children of Atlas and Pleione
are the seven daughters the Pleiaden.
Taygete, Elektra, Alkyone, Asterope,
Kelaino, Maia and
Merope form the known constellation
of the Pleiaden.
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