Zeus early life

     When Zeus was born, his mother hid him in a cave on the island of Crete.
There he was raised by a Nymph called Amalthea, with goat milk and honey, while at same time Kurites smaller soldier gods danced shouted and clashed their spears at the shields, so that Cronus would nor hear the baby cries.

    Then When Zeus reached manhood he cut his father's stomach open pulled out all his siblings that had been eaten.
    After that the young gods freed the  Gigantes, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes from tartarus the abyss.

      As a token of their appreciation, the Cyclopes gave Zeus the thunder and the lightning. Which became Zeus symbols of power.

 Zeus and his lightening















               

 A Cyclops