Greek mythology is a very complex and interesting science. Unfortunately, not everyone who knows its main points is familiar with the beginning of the beginnings of deities.
Like many other nations, the Greeks speak of the initial chaos that reigned in the universe. After him, the future ancestors of all divine characters appear - the first titans, Uranus and Gaia. Dominating the living world, they constantly produce offspring. Uranus turns out to be a very passionate husband, but he is clearly lacking in affection, his first sons - hecatonheirs and cyclops - fall out of favor: fearing the relics of his own children, he sends them to Tartarus. Of course, her mother, Gaia, is saddened, and therefore she teaches her next offspring, Krona, to overthrow her father and deprive him of the possibility of having descendants by means of insulting.
The future father of Zeus obeys his parent in everything and achieves success. But his mother suddenly predicts to him that he will fall at the hands of his own son.
Now myths already tell of the next divine pair - Krona and Ray. Having become fertile as a father, the unfortunate one is obsessed with fear, and therefore devours his own children. But this is precisely what becomes the cause of disaster - yearning for her descendants, Reya saves one of her sons by feeding an ordinary cobblestone instead of her beloved husband.
But a young god was born in one of the caves of Crete - where, according to his mother, Cronus would not have looked for him. According to legend, she endured torment in silence, thrusting her fingers into the ground, and the entrance at that time was guarded by jackets. Leaving her son in the care of these amazing creatures, Rhea returned to her husband. Over time, the Cave of Zeus became known and popular among people. Today, any tourist who came to Greece can visit it.
Unsuspecting father of Zeus lives, as before, while one of his children accumulates strength and hatred to get even with the murderer of brothers and sisters.
And now the time has come. Zeus, who has grown and strengthened, gives his father a special potion that forces him to spew earlier swallowed children (who, by the way, managed to grow right in his womb). Of course, the saved gods and goddesses are grateful to the savior, and therefore together with him they go to war against the tyrant, who was the father of Zeus - Kron the child-killer.
However, the war was far more complex and lengthy than everyone expected. The Titans turned out to be extremely strong and cunning opponents. But, in the end, the young gods were still able to prevail, and the father of Zeus was sent to Tartarus with his own son.
Well, Zeus himself stayed with his brothers and sisters on Olympus - a high mountain, leaving a peak in the sky. Wise and childish, cunning and merciful, beautiful and quick-tempered, they began their own lives, and the god Zeus - the great Thunderer - became the eldest among them.
What is most interesting, the Greeks themselves, despite the seemingly even attitude to all stages of their mythological history, consider the golden age a period when Cronus and Rhea ruled everything. According to legends, people themselves were in many ways similar to the gods - they did not know grief and loss, time was not so powerful over them, there was no need to work, the souls of all living people had purity, and their minds were extraordinary clarity and piercing.