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Once upon a time...

Many years ago...

Cronus became the supreme ruler of the universe. 

He married Rhea who gave birth to six children! 

The Great Gods!

Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus. 

However, Cronus’s greatest fear was that one day one of his children 

would take his throne, as he was told once by his father Uranus. 

To prevent the reoccurrence of his father’s fate, he was determined to 

kill all his children one by one as soon as they were born.

Whenever his wife, Rhea, was having a newborn, Cronus would grab 

it and then swallow it.

But Rhea was very unhappy! 

So, when she was pregnant with Zeus, to save him from his father, 

went to the island of Crete, and secretly gave birth to the new baby. 

Then, she entrusted the Nymphs who were responsible to take good 

care of him and raise him. 

This way Cronus was tricked! 

Rhea quickly replaced the baby’s body with a stone wrapped in 

swaddling clothes and said: 

"Look, this is our last child!" 

Cronus swallowed the stone at once without hesitation.

Zeus was raised with love and affection by the Nymphs and 

became great and strong. 

When he grew up, he decided to confront his father. 

Metis, the daughter of Ocean, helped Zeus and gave him a potion to 

cause Cronus to vomit the stone and his siblings… 

And, like a miracle, Cronus’s sons and daughters were still alive! 

Hera came back to life and went to Evia, 

where she was raised by the nymph Macris. 

Then Zeus fought with his father, overthrew him and finally managed to take 

control of the universe. 

Ever since, Zeus became the undisputed king of the Gods and lived in the 

highest mountain in the heart of Greece, Mount Olympus.

Zeus was the greatest of all Gods! He was powerful and wise! 

He was the one who would arrange people’s lives, whenever they 

needed help, but also would punish them for their mistakes. 

He used his mighty weapons that the Cyclopes gave him: the 

Thunder, the Lightning and the Thunderbolt. The symbols of his 

power were the Victory, the Eagle, the Thunderbolt and the Scepter. 

Besides being powerful and intelligent, he had his weaknesses too. 

His greatest weakness was that he would often fall in love with other 

women!

One day as he was wandering in the mountains he met Hera in the 

southern highlands of the island Evia, Mount Ochi! 

Hera was very beautiful! 

Zeus fell in love with her immediately and set out to conquer her! 

However, Hera was aware of his weakness to fall in love to other 

women and did not trust him, as she was very jealous. 

As he saw that she was stern and serious...

He had an ingenious thought! 

So, when one day the beautiful goddess was taking a walk in a green 

forest of Mount Ochi...

Zeus to pique her curiosity transformed himself into a bird, a cuckoo, 

and sat on a high branch. 

Suddenly it began to rain and... 

the cuckoo fell trembling in front of Hera’s feet. 

Touched, Hera took the bird to her breast to warm it. 

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