When he grew up, Zeus found his father and tricked him into drinking a mixture of wine and mustard, which caused him to disgorge the contents of his stomach. The Nymphs took care of Zeus and fed the baby with the milk of a goat.
She also tricked Cronus into thinking he swallowed this child too, by giving him a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, which Cronus swallowed thinking it was his newborn. However, Rhea was expecting a sixth child and fearing it would share the same fate with her other children, she secretly gave birth on a mountain in Crete and hid the newborn there. So, when they were born, he swallowed them. He married Rhea, who gave birth to two gods and three goddesses: Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia and Demeter.īut Cronus inherited the fear of his father and believed that one of his offspring would later take his throne. But his son, Cronus, the strongest of the Titans, defeated him and became world leader. That is why he enclosed every one of them in the depths of the Earth. But, Uranus was afraid that one of his children would take his throne. Then Uranus and Earth came together and gave birth to the Titans. Dense darkness covered everything until the Earth was born out of Chaos and the mountains, the sea, and then the sky (Uranus) with the sun, the moon and the stars.
According to Hesiod’s Theogony, in the beginning, there was only Chaos.
