Relationship Between Gods And Goddesses

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The most common theme throughout myths are all the challenges that gods and goddesses faced. Throughout their lives gods and goddesses came across problems, which either help them become the god/goddess they were, or it allowed them to help others. The first clear example of this was Zeus. The whole problem started because Zeus wanted to overthrow his father and save his brother and sisters from the inside of his father Cronus, where they were capture. So both of them went to war against each other, and they both had allies. Zeus allies were all his sisters and brothers, Hecatonchires, Prometheus, Themis, and the Cyclopes. Cronus allies were the Titans. After defeating the Titans, Gaia was mad because those where her kids, so she send Typhoeus,

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