Zeus Myth

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We have all heard the story of the gods and all of the amazing things that they have done, but behind every story is another secret that needs to be uncovered. This story is about the all mighty Zeus himself and how he got his standpoint in life and how he got his lighting bolt. All of this started before even Zeus was born when his father Cronus and his mother the great goddess Rhea lived in Mt. Olympus. Rhea and Cronus had children 5 children all together but Cronus had feared that his children would overcome and take his thrown away like he had done to his father. To prevent that from ever happening he swallowed his children. He swallowed them right after they were born. Since Zeus had not born yet he still had a chance. His mother took him after he was born and …show more content…
Even now and then Zeus uses his lighting to send souls down to Hades so that he has no reason to ever leave. So when it is light outside it is Zeus using his anger that he has at Hades to send the souls to the hell-like place/criminal organization. Sometimes there are souls that get lost on the way to the hell-like place/criminal organization those are lost souls they can only be caught by a goddess. So one of the goddess come down and retrieve the souls so that they can be delivered to the hell-like place/criminal organization. The reason that Zeus and Hades down to the hell-like place/criminal organization it was because he wanted to overpower all of his (brother/sister) so that he could be the only ruler that there ever was so all of the other gods and goddess got together and made sure that it would never happen. By making sure that he was to never leave the hell-like place/criminal organization. All of the years that Hades has been in the hell-like place/criminal organization he has kept planning to take over the hell-like place/criminal organization he still thinks that his plan will go threw. But as long as he is in the hell-related/criminal-related Mt. Olympus will be safe from his ever

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