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A few of Zeus's characteristics are when he is pictured, he is usually pictured as a young man with a white beard and a lightning bolt. He has many woman friends. He is the father to many heroes. His symbol is a lightning bolt. He is highly powerful,strong,charming, and persuasive. He gets in trouble over love affairs. He can be moody. Zeus's has many powers. He is god of the sky, of the earth,and is god of all gods. He has supreme authority over earth and Mt.Olympus. Because he is god of the sky he is also controls the skies attachments like clouds, lightning, storms, rain, and things like that. He could get woman by force or by seducing them. Here are a few myths about Zeus. Cronus sired several young children by Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born, since he had heard from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own son as he had overthrown his own father. A oracle warned that Zeus was to hear and avert. But when Zeus was about to be born Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save him. So that when Cronus would get his retribution foe his act against Uranus and his own children. Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete and instead of giving Cronus Zeus she gave him a rock wrapped in swaddling cloth which Cronus promptly swallowed. Zeus was hidden in a cave where he was nursed by goat milk. Once he was grown up he forced Cronus to vomit up his brothers and sisters, and these gods joined him in fighting to wrest control of the universe from the Titans and Cronus. They vanquished his father and the other Titans. Zeus imprisoned most of the Titans in the underworld of Tartus. Zeus is the father of the heroes Perseus and Herades. Zeus split the natural events between himself and his siblings. He became god of the sky and god of all gods. Hades is god of the underworld, Poseidon is god of the sea/ all water, Demeter is goddess of wheat, Hera is goddess of marriage and Zeus wife, and Hestia is goddess of hearth and home.