What are some interesting facts about Zeus?

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what wars was he in other stuff like that

Answer 1

Hi, what I find most interesting is the name Zeus in itself and its evolution and implications:

First Zeus was originally written: θεως read Theos, and it is very possible that θεως is a Hellenism of Toth, Thoth or θωθ, the Egyptian God and supposed inventor of writing, not Hermes as Plato claimed. Especially considering a timeline of script and cultural development in the meditteranean which basicallly was Egyptian, next Cretan or Minoan,which jumped to Asia as Phoenican and whose alphabet was adopted by the greek Greek.

If Zeus was written: θεως, and we know that the Greek alphabet also had the letter Z it makes you wonder why they did not write it Zεως instead of θεως. A plausible and simple explanation, Ockham’s razor, is that we write it with Z because Christian philologists wanted to make the Christians look in other direction, specifically towards the Hebrews and their Bible.

Since the genitive of θεως is δiος or Dios, etymological origin of the name that Italians Dio, Spanish Dios, French Dieu, Portuguese Deus and other give to God. We can infer that the θ - Z change hides the etymological origin of God in the ancient Greek sources rather than in the Semitic sources.

Further more from θεως παταρας or Zeus Pateras, or Zeus Pater the Romans slightly modified it and changed into Jupiter which was one step further in the deformation of θεως and according to the church has no relation with the Christian Dios, Note that English call Jupiter Jove a bastardized form of θεωv (the accusative form really pronounced Dion). More people pointing in the wrong direction. The Biblical direction.

Form the Christian liturgy we see plenty of examples directly copied from the Greek and Egyptian religion, from the Amen, to the Blesseings, our father which were the source of Christianism much more so than the Torah. Those in the know the Egyptian Christian communities became the Gnostics that founded Gnosticism.

Furthermore, the name θεως - Theos reinforces theories about the contact of Egyptian with the oldest mayor American Cultures. The Olmec and Maya civilizations.

On one hand the Olmec gods where also called θεως e.g. Teotihuacan – city of the Gods, Teontxitlan now Tenochtitlan etc as early as 1500 BCE through 100 BCE, although there is evidence that the Olmec culture existed into the Common Era. The Maya culture originated in the Yucatan around 2600 B.C. and rose to prominence around A.D. 250. In addition The Olmec and Maya writing systems are hyerogliphic too. The Olmec Signs are similar to the writing used by the Vai people of West Africa. The Olmecs spoke and aspect of the Mandingo (Malinke-Bambara) language spoken in West Africa. Whilst the Maya or Proto-Mayan script Mayan writing that helped Rafinesque (1832) and other with the decipherment of the Olmec Writing. Mayan glyphs broken down into their constituent parts were analogous to the ancient Libyco-Berber writing. The Libyco-Berber writing cannot be read in either Berber or Taurag, even though these people use an alphabetic script similar to the Libyco-Berber script, which is syllabic CV and CVC in structure. Hence more relations between Greeks, Egyptians and God.

So in my opinion Zeus was the model for our Christian god and not the Hebrew Aθωναι, read Adonai, from Aton - ai or Father Aton, the singular God of the first monotheistic religion in human history, and not the Hebrew as both the Jewish and Christians claim. Finally, we can see the mimetic and syncretic properties of many cultures, in special the Greek and Hebrew cultures which claim to be the inventors of so many things.

Hope it helps
Santiago

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Answer 3

according to some myths Zeus castrated his father, and unlike the previous gods of the Greeks, let all the gods rule in there special way. So he sort of created a peace between his brothers and sisters. Zeus also slept around with the goddesses, seduced many mortal women, raped a large number more, and even had his eye on a few mortal men. He allowed his brother Hades to abduct his daughter Persephone without telling Demeter, yea he was great. (Note sarcasm.)

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After reaching manhood, Zeus forced Cronus to disgorge first the stone (which was set down at Pytho under the glens of Parnassus to be a sign to mortal men, the Omphalos) then his siblings in reverse order of swallowing. Then Zeus released the brothers of Cronus, the Gigantes, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes, from their dungeon in Tartarus. Together, Zeus and his brothers and sisters, along with the Gigantes, Hecatonchires and Cyclopes overthrew Cronus and the other Titans, in the combat called the Titanomachy. The defeated Titans were then cast into a shadowy underworld region known as Tartarus. Atlas, one of the titans that fought against Zeus, was punished by having to hold up the sky.
After the battle with the Titans, Zeus shared the world with his elder brothers, Poseidon and Hades, by drawing lots: Zeus got the sky and air, Poseidon the waters, and Hades the world of the dead (the underworld). The ancient Earth, Gaia, could not be claimed; she was left to all three, each according to their capabilities, which explains why Poseidon was the "earth-shaker" (the god of earthquakes) and Hades claimed the humans that died.
Gaia resented the way Zeus had treated the Titans, because they were her children. Soon after taking the throne as king of the gods, Zeus had to fight some of Gaia's other children, the monsters Typhon and Echidna. He vanquished Typhon and trapped him under a mountain, but left Echidna and her children alive.

Answer 6

Well, first he was the youngest of the children of Gaea and Kronos, and was the only one saved from being devoured by his father. He grew into the person who overthrew the titans and became king of olympus.

He never got into any real battles, and his most prominent fight was against a monster called Typhon.

There is nothing worth knowing about Zeus because he is really not that worth knowing. He is a flirting god who loves to have sex with every mortal and immortal he knows.

If you want to learn about a god, I suggest Odin of norse myths, but if you really like Classical, Apollo is more interesting.

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Answer 8

I don't recall much about his history, but an interesting tidbit is that the Suez Canal in the Middle East was named after the backwards spelling of his name. He was known as the "king of the gods" and his equivalent in Roman mythology was Jupiter. I believe Hera (Minerva in Roman mythology) was his wife. Also, if I recall correctly, he was portrayed by Lawrence Olivier in _Clash of the Titans_.

Answer 9

Here yah go...............

King of the Greek gods and goddesses
Zeus's Appearance: Usually represented as an older, vigorous bearded man. But representations of Zeus as a powerful young man also exist.
Zeus' Symbols or Attributes: Thunderbolt.

Zeus's Strengths: Highly powerful, strong, charming, persuasive.

Zeus's Weaknesses: Gets in trouble over love affairs, can be moody.

Major Temple Sites of Zeus to Visit:Dodona in northwestern Greece; the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens; Mount Olympus.

Zeus's Birthplace:Zeus is most commonly believed to be born in a cave on Mount Ida on the island of Crete where he took ashore Europa at the beach of Matala.The Cave of Psychro or Diktaean Cave above the Lassithi Plain is also said to be his birthplace. His mother is Rhea and his father is Kronos; things got off to a rocky start as Kronos, fearful of being usurped, kept eating Rhea's children. Finally, she got wise after giving birth to Zeus and subsituted a swaddled rock for her husband's snack. Zeus conquered his father and freed his siblings, who were still living in Kronos' stomach.
Zeus's Tomb:Unlike mainland Greeks, the Cretans believed that Zeus died and was resurrected annually. His "tomb" was said to be on Mount Juchtas just outside of Heraklion, where from the west the mountain looks like a giant man lying on his back. A Minoan peak sanctuary crowns the mountain and can be visited, though these days it has to share space with cell phone towers.

Zeus's Spouse: Hera in most stories; Europa, at least among the Cretans; Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis; Dione, mother of Aphrodite, at Dodona. Here is a picture of Zeus: at Dodona

Children: Lots and lots of them. Hercules is one famous child.

Basic Story: Zeus is King of the Gods of Mount Olympus, fights with his wife Hera, and drops down to earth in a variety of disguises to seduce maidens who catch his fancy.

Interesting Fact: Some experts believe that not all the names of Zeus really refer to Zeus, but instead refer to similar gods popular in local areas of Greece. Zeus Kretagenes is the Zeus born on Crete.


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Zeus is the Supreme God. His parents were both titans they were Cronus and Rhea. He had 5 siblings who were Hades, Hestia, Demeter, Poseidon and Hera. He Married Hera. The thunderbolt is his symbol which he got from Cyclops to fight against the titans and his father. Zeus had control over all the skies Zeus He was called the father of gods and mortals. Zeus was the only one of his fathers children to not be eaten by his father. His mother brought him to some centaurs to be raised. We he was old enough he returned to his mother and his mother told him all about his history. Then Zeus went to save his brothers and sisters from his father. He made his father throw up his brothers and sisters.

Answer 10

Zeus is a myth, how can their be facts.