He also freed his father’s brothers from their enslavement by Uranus, and the Cyclopes, who out of gratitude granted him the thunder and lightning that became the signs and instruments of his power. He saved his brothers and sisters by causing Cronus to regurgitate them. Zeus grew up and defeated Cronus through trickery and force.
As a result, when the time came for Zeus to be born, she went to Lyktos in Crete and hid the newborn in a cave at Mount Aegean, and Cronus was given a large stone wrapped in swaddling clothes to swallow instead, thus tricking him. He did not want another god to claim his rank, so Cronus immediately swallowed all of his children as they came out of the sacred body of Rhea, which saddened her greatly. Cronus was King among the children of heaven and learned through his mother Gaia and his father Uranus that he was destined to fall by a mighty son. Zeus was the youngest son of Cronus (Saturn), grandson of Uranus and Gaia, and Rhea. The Trident has also been used as a powerful weapon in many other mythologies, which makes one wonder if indeed this kind of weapon existed. He majestically held the sign of his reign, the Trident, which gave him the power both to create storms and calm the waters. Poseidon, God of the Sea, possessed control of the waves and the tides, also the springs and rivers, and was considered responsible for geological phenomena such as earthquakes. If we take the myth literally, then we would say that Hephaestus manufactured some sort of weapon that appeared thunder-like as no one knew anything equivalent. Hephaestus manufactured thunderbolts at Etna and Zeus threw them from Mount Olympus. The thunder was the symbol of power and one of his most powerful weapons, which he used to correct people. Zeus, lord of Olympus, was a weather god, controller of lightning, thunder and rain. Poseidon was the Greek equivalent of Oannes, the standard of marine gods for the Sumerians. Zeus was the Greek equivalent of Enlil (later Ammon), Babylonian God of Heaven and Earth. The Greek gods had much in common with Sumerian deities.
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