07/13/2024
Zeus — in ancient Greek mythology, the god of heaven, thunder, and lightning, in charge of the whole world. The main and most powerful of the Olympian gods, the third son of the titan Kronos and the Titanide Rhea; brother of Hades, Hera, Hestia, Demeter and Poseidon. The wife of Zeus is the goddess Hera. In Roman mythology, he was identified with Jupiter.
Attributes of Zeus were a shield and a double-sided axe (labris), sometimes an eagle; Olympus was considered the seat (Olympian Zeus). Zeus was thought of as a "fire", a "hot substance", dwelling in the ether, owning the sky, organizing the center of cosmic and social life.
In addition, Zeus distributed good and evil on earth, put shame and conscience into people. Zeus is a formidable punishing force, sometimes he is associated with fate, sometimes he himself acts as a being subject to the goddesses Moira — fate, fate. Zeus has the ability to foresee the future; he proclaims the destiny through dreams, as well as with the help of thunder and lightning. The whole social order was built by Zeus, he was.
