after Cronus had eaten five of his
children in fear that one of them might
one day grow up and turn against him
just as was prophesied by his father
Uranus, Rhea, when it came to her
sixth child, was determined to save
him from the fate of his brothers and
sisters and with the help of her mother
Gaia she succeeded in deceiving
Kronos by giving him a baby-sized
rock wrapped in the swaddling clothes of
a baby and Kronos unsuspectingly took
the rock with the clothes around it for
a baby and swallowed it whole just as he
did with the previous five children once
Rhea made sure that Kronos was at ease
again
she hurried off to Crete and on that
island she gave birth to a healthy
beautiful baby whom she named Zeus and
she entrusted that baby to the nymphs who
lived on that island and to the Curetes
however everyone had still to be
extra cautious about everything as we
said earlier Kronos was a great despot
and had he found out about the presence
of a newborn in the world he would
definitely investigate into the matter
and would absolutely find out the truth
and so poor Zeus had to spend his baby
years in a cave to make sure that Kronos
would not find out about his presence
and also to make sure that Kronos would
not hear the cries of this babies Zeus
the curators had to stand at the
entrance of that cave wearing full body
armor and beating their spears against
their breasts so as to produce a very
loud din that would drown out the cries
of the baby Zeus was nursed on the milk
of a goat and he grew up to be a
beautiful handsome even radiant strong
young man
of course his childhood was quite happy
he spent his time running around the
island along the rivers and lying in the
shade of trees his teenage years were
were also quite blissful he spent those
years following and seducing women and
girls
an unfortunate hobby of his that stayed
with him for the rest of his life much
to the dismay of his later life
Hira who would go on to painstakingly divise
ingenious plans to punish his countless
really countless lovers and mistresses
but on the plus side giving us many
delightful stories a daughter of Oceanus
called Metis was responsible for
teaching Zeus the arts of wisdom and
a great friendship and bond grew between
those two and we have many stories about
Zeus and Metis and we'll come to those
stories later on anyway when the time
came for this used to take action
against his father he was more than
ready syria had made sure that Chronos
as he grew up from a baby to a boy to a
teenager and finally to a fine young man
one idea never left his mind and that
idea was the horror that his father had
committed towards his brothers and
sisters and so Zeus was seething with
hatred towards his father and was
burning with desire to right the wrong
that had been committed there was a plan
devised by rare Gaia and Metis and use
was to fold that a plan to exact revenge
on his father first his use was
introduced to Chronos as his cup bearer
and Chronos a lusty and vicious God
accepted the handsome young man perhaps
with ulterior motives in mind and after
serving him for a while his use went to
Metis to find out how to proceed with
the plan and she gave him a potion made
from herbs that she had collected and
she asked him to give that potion to
Chronos as you succeeded in doing that
he added the potion
to a cup of wine that he was giving to
offer to pronounce and to Chronos as
usual to the common suspecting li
dim-witted li and drunk but no sooner
had the potion reached the stomach of
Chronos then he started to feel a sort
of unease all over his body there was a
strange chemical reaction going around
there then he started to feel quite
queasy in the stomach and then with a
sudden explosion he started vomiting he
threw up many many disgusting things
most notable of which perhaps was the
rock that Raya had managed to deceive
him with many many years ago it turned
out that the potion made a certain
peculiar reaction with the quality of
that rock that produced this strange
effect after the rock Chronos threw up
the siblings of Zeus out of his stomach
came Demeter Hestia hero and Poseidon
and Hades once Cronus had evacuated
let's say all the contents of his
stomach he was very tired fell into a
swoon and lay there unconscious zeus
rejoiced at the sight of his brothers
and sisters andrea of course was quite
delighted with the outcome of their job
however the excitement faded quite soon
because once the brothers and sisters
the formidable unconscious body of their
father Cronos they realized that what
had just happened was an event of great
significance there was no turning back
now
once Cronus regained consciousness
indeed once his Titan brothers and
sisters found out about the
transgression of Zeus and the rebirth of
the children they were to put it mildly
demand retribution Zeus and his brothers
and sisters realized that war was at
hand and they had to be ready for that
war the story of this great wall and the
details of that story will be the
subject of our next video for today that
is all thank you very much for watching
and I'll see you in the next one
