Entry # 1
The god I have chosen is Zeus. The reason I have chosen this god, is because Zeus is the strongest god and the leader of all the gods in the greek mythology, plus there is a lot of information about him, so I thought he would be easy too.
First, he is the god of earth and the leaders of all the gods that live in olympus. He is known to be fairly good looking and is one of the most powerful god there are. He is the youngest son of Cronous and Lea. Before Zeus was born, and before Cronous was the ruler, Cronous's father Uranus was the ruler of the earth. But after having monsters has children Uranus got sick of them and locked them up in the under world. This made his wife/mother, Gaeaa, furious and made her order her other sons to defeat their father. While they all were afraid, the youngest and most powerful son, Cronous, agreed to defeat his own father and take his place as the ruler. After he defeated Cronous, Gaeaa was hoping that Cronous would save her children from the underworld, but instead he took more of Gaeaa's monster children and locked them up in the underworld as well. Of course Gaeaa become furious once more and cursed Cronous that he will be defeated from his child as he defeated his father. Cronous got scared and as soon his wife, Lea, had their first child, Hestia, he swallowed his own child. Of course Lea was shocked but couldn't do anything about it. After that Lea had five more children, but Cronous, who was afraid of his mother curse, swallowed all of them. Finally Lea was pregnent with her Sixth child, Zeus, but this time she went to her mother, Gaeaa, for help, and there she made a plan. Lea gave birth to Zeus alone in a cave and gave it to elfs so that they can raise him. Instead of taking her baby, Lea hid a rock in cloth and pretend that it was Zeus, of course Cronous, being the idiot he is, thought it was the baby and swallowed the rock. Time went by and Zeus became older and more stronger. He fell in love with a goddess Metis, the daughter of Tetis, and married her. Zeus thought about how he was going to overthrow his father with Metis. Metis thought of a plan about rescuing his brothers and sisters that were swallowed by their father. Metis made a potion that can make someone throw up and gave it to Zeus. Zeus went to his mother and gave her the potion Metis had made for him. Lea mixed the potion with some wine and served it to Cronous. As soon Cronous took a drink of the wine, he felt greatly ill and threw up his children that he swallowed before. Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter and Hestia came out of their father body (at last Cronous threw up the rock that he thought was Zeus). Zeus hurried and gave his brothers and sisters weapons and all together they threw over Cronous. So Gaeaa's curse came true. Zeus divided powers with his brothers, Zeus become the ruler of earth, Poseidon became the ruler of sea and Hades become the ruler of the underworld. As Zeus gained power, the Titians (Cronous's brothers and Gaeaa's Children) became jelous and there was a big war between the gods. Since they are all gods they could not die. So the war never ended. Zeus went to Gaeaa (his grandmother) for advice. Gaeea told Zeus to free her children that were locked up in the underworld by Uranus and Cronous. Zeus did what he was told and the monster children of Gaeaa fought and made weapons for Zeus's side. Zeus's side eventually won and locked up the Titans up in the underworld.
Zeus is the father of Hercules and have the similarites of being powerful. Hercules didn't have a love story, while his father Zeus, was the best flirter there was. He had so many wifes that you can't even count and even more affairs. In personalities, the two don't really differ, they are serious and strong and just normal. One difference about Zeus and Hercules is that Zeus is a god while Hercules is half human. Even though Zeus is the father of Hercules, his mother is human, which makes Hercules half god, and half human.
Source: "Greece Rome Mythology", author by Thomas Bulfinch
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