First Person Point of View

My Father was a greedy Titan, he wanted to rule the world by himself. He didnt necessarily like my mother because she kept giving him children that threatened his throne. Cronus would take my siblings and devourer them like they were nothing more than a piece of bread at a meal. My mother, Rhea, got tired of this so when she had me she hid me away on the Island of Crete where I was protected by the Curete. Rhea then wrapped a rock in swaddling clothes and convinced Cronus that the rock was me. He devoured it like he had all of my siblings before.
 When I was a child my screams could be heard all around the world, so my protectors the Curetes would bang on their shields creating a very loud beating sound that could cause an avalanche from thousands of miles away. As I grew older I the Curetes taught me to fight. Throughout the years I had come to be known as one of the fiercest warriors. I can not remember a day when I was not training to one day take the throne from my father.
When the day finally came I was ready and had a plan. My siblings were needed to carry out this plan so that is where it started. They needed to be freed. There is a special plant that is on the island that can cause any animal to regurgitate what is in there stomach. The Curetes helped me get this herb. I had come up with a way to trick my father into eating it so my siblings could be freed. When the time came and the herb was in place Cronus ate it and within minutes my brothers and sisters were freed. With their help we went into battle and over took Cronus slicing him into pieces and throwing him into the deepest part of Tartarus, trapping him there so he could never return.    

Myth Resoulution

 

The resolution of the myth is when Zeus and his siblings win the fight with their father and take over Olympus. The battle starts with Zeus getting his father to eat a special herb and then him regurgitating his children. Zeus and his siblings then go to war with their father. They chop him into pieces and throw him into Tartarus. The gods then take over Olympus.

Climax of the myth

The climax of the myth is when Zeus finally comes to the age of which he can takeover the throne. Zeus grew up on the island of crete where he was hidden from his father who had eaten all of his other siblings and had been decieved into thinking that he had eaten Zeus too. When he finally came of age Zeus tricked his father into eating a special herb that made him throw up his children. After the deciete Zeus and his siblings then went to war with their father in order to take the throne from him. Cronos' children won this battle and then later chopped him into pieces and threw him into the depths of Tartarus.

Conflict

The main conflict within the myth is that Cronus eats all of his children so they cannot take his throne from him, but his wife Rhea hides one of the children away. Cronus was a very greedy god and he overthrew his father to take the throne of the world and he didnt want that to happen to him. Ctonus had devowered every one of his children that Rhea had given to him, with the exception of Zeus. Rhea decieved her husband and tricked him into thinking that a rock was the baby, though she had already sent Zeus to the island of Crete to keep him hiden. This conflict also leads to another, Zeus overthrowing his father with the help of his siblings. Zeus finally came of the age to take the throne, he also decived his father and tricked him into eating an herb that pretty much made him throw up his children that he had earlier devowered. With the help of his siblings Zeus became the new god of the sky.

Crete

The mythe earlier in the blog mainly takes place on the Island of Crete. Zeus was sent away to this island by his mother to stay hidden from his father who would have eaten him. Deamonds known as Curetes who served the Titan Rhea lived on this island. When Zeus was sent there they kept his cries hidden from others by pounding their shields. The islad was really loud most of the time with continuous thump thump of the deamonds shields. The island of ancient Crete was very beautiful and being surrounded by the sea it smelled of seawater. Now the city of Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits.

Rhea is the daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus, in Greek mythology. The classical Greeks saw her as the mother of the Olympian goddesses and gods, but not as an Olympian goddess in her own right. She was originally worshiped in the island of Crete, where according to myth, she saved the new-born Zeus from being devoured by Cronus, by substituting a stone for the infant god and entrusting him to the care of her attendants. Rhea only appears in Greek art from the fourth century BC, when her iconography draws on that of Cybele. Most often Rhea's symbol is a pair of lions, the ones that pulled her celestial chariot and were seen often, rampant, one on either side of the gateways through the walls to many cities in the ancient world.

Cronus was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, divine descendants of Gaia, the earth, and Uranus, the sky. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus. Cronus was usually depicted with the harpe and a sickle, which was the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a patron of harvest. Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn.

Zeus is known as Jupiter in Roman mythology, is the god of the Sky and King of the Gods in Greek mythology. He is the last and youngest son of Cronus and Rhea, and fulfilled the oracle's prediction by overthrowing Cronus. Zeus is able to turn into animals, usually an eagle.

In modern culture Greek Mythology is also used in movies, in direct reference, In Clash of the Titans , Perseus, the son of Zeus is a hero who attempts to stop the underworld from spreading to Earth. Greek Mythology along with its god Zeus are also referenced in many other movies as well.

In ancient times one of the Greeks most mportant festivals, the Olympic Games, was held every four years in honor of the King of their gods, Zeus. Like modern Olympics, athletes traveled from distant lands, including Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt and Sicily, to compete. The Olympics were first started in 776 B.C. and held at a shrine to Zeus located on the western coast of Greece in a region called Peloponnesus. The games helped to unify the Greek city-states and a sacred truce was declared. Safe passage was given to all traveling to the site, called Olympia, for the season of the games.