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Why did Zeus, the youngest son of Kronos and Rhea, become the main among the Olympian gods?

Kronos, the father of Zeus, fearing to be deposed by his children, swallowed each time the child just born to Rhea. First he swallowed Hestia, then Demeter and Hera, then Hades, and then Poseidon. Rhea was beside herself with what was happening, and when Zeus was born, she swaddled the stone and gave it to Kronos to swallow instead of the baby.

The deception was successful, and little Zeus survived. Having matured, Zeus, on the advice of the titanides Metis, asked Rhea to make him the butler of Kronos. Rhea expressed her readiness to help her son and even took out mustard and salt, which the same Metis advised to mix in Kronos' honey drink. Having taken a sip of the drink, Kronos first spewed out a stone from the mouth, and then swallowed the older brothers and sisters of Zeus. All were safe and sound, and in gratitude offered Zeus to lead them in the fight against the titans.

The war (titanomachia) lasted ten years, until Gaia (Earth) predicted victory for her grandson Zeus, on the condition that he take the Cyclopes and the Hundred-armed, who were cast into Tartarus, as allies. Having killed the guardian of Tartarus Kampa, Zeus freed both of them, for which the Cyclopes forged lightning for him.

Putting on the helmet of Hades, which made him invisible, Zeus quietly entered the abode of Kronos and struck him with lightning, and then the hundred-handed began to throw stones at the remaining titans. Kronos and all the defeated titans, except for Atlas, were thrown into Tartarus, where they were left under the protection of the hundred-handed. Thanks to the intervention of Metis and Rhea, all the Titanides were spared. After that, the three brothers - Zeus, Poseidon and Hades - divided power among themselves. Zeus received supremacy over the rest of the Olympic gods and dominance in heaven, Poseidon - power on the sea and in all the waters of the earth, Hades - the kingdom of the dead (the earth and Olympus remained common).

Thus, Zeus took the leading position in the family of the Olympic gods due to two circumstances: firstly, it was he who freed his brothers and sisters from the womb of their father, and, secondly, only he - the thunderer - was subject to lightning, and sometimes only fear before its deadly power made the inhabitants of Mount Olympus obedient.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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