Zeus

Siblings: The Olympians

**Zeus**, also known as **Jupiter**, the **God of Lightning** and the **King of all Greco-Roman Gods**, is the Olympian God son of Cronus and Rhea, husband of Hera and father of Athena, Ares, Hephaestus, and many other gods and demigods. He is the national god of the Greek pantheon and the king of the Dodekatheon.

## Overview

He is respected as a typical God-father of all who was the head of the gods and assigned others their roles. He was equated with many foreign weather gods, such as El the Canaanite God of the Desert. It is believed that Zeus will be destroyed and dethroned in the future (probably in the Greek Apocalypse, the End of Works and Days).

Zeus' reputation for violence often caused men to tremble in fear for he could easily punish them with one of his thunderbolts. Of course, he would give them a fair warning before the final, destructive bolt, and punishment was usually carried out only with the consent of the other gods.

## Appearance

Zeus possesses blue eyes and white hair that goes all the way down to his shoulders. He also has a white beard and is usually seen wearing a white tunic. Zeus was most often portrayed with a long, white beard, and his symbol was the eagle atop a scepter which he carried as he sat upon his majestic throne.

## Personality

Zeus is very well known for his many affairs, which greatly enraged Hela. Zeus has slept with countless women, with his most well known children from his affairs being Hermes, Artemis, Apollo, Heracles, and Perseus.

Despite Zeus' near-never ending lust for "magnificent women", as his fellow gods describe it, and infidelity towards Hera (his sister/wife), he was still the upholder of the universal order. Zeus brought justice upon humans in an attempt to make them better, make them more enlightened and educated. He would most often punish oathbreakers, liars, and violators of sacred hospitality.

He is a strict adherent and follower to the universal code of rule of the Council of Godheads and the celestial laws decreed by Yesh, the supreme being of the Multiverse. Anyone who taints or disobeys the law, according to him, must receive a rightful punishment. He is also possesses a strong and moral sense of justice, and can be seen as a benevolent god of Olympus, taking pity/mercy towards the innocents and people who ask for his forgiveness.

His benevolence is such, that he empowers his champions and demigod children who cry out for his help and mercy, and bestows them with tremendous power, by further punishing the wicked and evil doers. He also hates prideful arrogance and hypo criticism, knowing how much damage it can do to a person (despite admitting that he is one of its victims), and so he will cast severe punishments towards the guilty/sinners and justice towards the innocents. He also assisted the Greeks during the Greco-Persian War, by storming the Persian navy, using thunder storms, rainfalls, and tidal waves, much to the Greeks' joy.

He is strict and can be sometimes cruel in his rulership, yet he is benevolent and fair to his subjects, children, servants, and worshippers. His job and status as chief deity makes him sometimes a cruel and arrogant king, specially when he is obsessive to claim things that he wants to, as he always puts himself in a higher position in the other gods. But when it comes to important matters, he is honorable and just; for example he almost always honors his subjects' decisions. He can also be (at times) very carefree, easygoing, and laid back in his job and status as a chief deity like Odin and his brother, Poseidon.

He can be also remorseful for his past wrongdoings and infidelity, especially towards Hera, due to her duty as the patron goddess of birth, the absence of personal time they don't have together due to working overtime and the women that he had affairs and sired sons with (this spot in his behavior possibly stems from his previous marriage and he's deeply saddened due to imprisoning his wife in his stomach). He loves his family above all, including his many demigod children as he sees, observes, and guides them from the heavens. He holds his mother, Rhea, in high regard, and has always been appreciating her a lot, despite the fact that she is among the Titans (along with Prometheus, Helios, Leto, Metis, Leda, Themis, and some others) that he spared during the Titanomachy.

## Powers and Abilities

**Animal Companionship:** Zeus can form a sacred and powerful union between himself and animal companions, and they both tend to protect and care for one another and assist each other in multiple situations. Zeus can also share an empowering friendship so that they draw strength from and granting them the power to achieve anything and overcome potential obstacle in their way. The bond they have with their animals is purely sacred because of the pure love they have for one another and use it to synchronize each other and gain a variety of powers they use for themselves.

**Animal Morphing:** Zeus with this ability can transform into animals, whether partially or completely, as well as use the abilities, traits and appearance/physiology of animals by rearranging their own DNA structure. They are able to transform into animals that exist, alien animals, animals that are extinct, such as dinosaurs, or a combination of different animals.

**Commerce Deity:** Zeus with this ability either is or can transform into a commerce deity, a god/goddess in mythology who represents or is associated with commerce, trade, deals and business.

**Fate Deity:** Zeus with this ability either is or can transform into a fate deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with the fate, destiny and in many cases temporal energies. Fate deities can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms. Fate and time deities are very closely related as their abilities can overlap depending on the deity in question.

**Fertility Deity:** As an archetype of a Fertility Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with fertility, virility, sex, sexual health, reproduction, procreation, pregnancy, birth, nature, vegetation and crops. Fertility deities are common in mythology and were important among ancient and current civilizations. In most cases these deities are directly associated with these experiences.

**Justice Deity:** Zeus with this ability either is or can transform into a Justice Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with justice, law, order, judgements and punishments. Justice Deities are common in mythology and were important among ancient and current civilizations.

**Lightning Deity:** Zeus with this ability either is or can transform into a lightning deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with lightning and thunder.

**Masculinity Deity:** Zeus with this ability either is or can transform into a Masculinity Deity, a god who represents or is associated with masculinity, men and manhood. Masculinity deities weren't common in mythology but were very present among the civilizations they were worshiped in.

**Father God:** As an archetype, the father god, a deity/male god figure who is conceived as reigning over the other deities, or at least is one of the most powerful deities and is literally the father of most of the younger generation of the pantheons of which he is part.

**Order Deity:** Zeus is an Order Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with order, concord, organization and stability. They possess divine dominion over the makeup and proper maintenance of their world and its inhabitants.

**Sky Deity:** Zeus with this ability either is or can transform into a Sky Deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with the skies and the air. They are a common feature in polytheistic religions, and may include characteristics of the air and weather deities.

**Sky Father:** As an archetype, the Sky Father, personification/entity of make up the sky and the heavens, and are conceived as reigning over the other deities, which makes them normally one of the more powerful if not the most powerful deities in their respected pantheons. Many are literally fathers of most of the younger generations of the Pantheons of which they are apart.

**Supreme Deity:** Zeus either is or can transform into a supreme deity, a god/goddess who unquestionably upholds divine sovereignty between its pantheon, and is associated with higher divine powers and abilities, and are considerably far more powerful by reason of being controllers of other divine spirits, gods/goddesses, and the universe which they rule over. Making them the alpha deity among the others.

**Weather Deity:** Zeus is a weather deities, a god/goddess in mythology who represents or is associated with all types of weather and storm phenomenon. These types of deities were very common, very powerful, and even feared for their great powers over the weather and storms in polytheistic religions.

**Divine Weather Manipulation:** Zeus can assert control over all forms of weather available to divine entities or forces and utilize them in a variety of ways. Zeus can dominate atmospheric patterns which span over planets at a time and induce powerful forms of weather phenomenon. Zeus can also manipulate cosmic weather phenomenon, allowing them to assert their influence over patterns beyond that of those limited to planetary atmospheres.

**Demiurge Physiology:** Zeus with this ability either is or can transform into a demiurge, an artisan-like being responsible for the fashioning, shaping, and maintenance of the physical universe, or at least some portion of it. It may clear things to know that in Greek *dēmiourgos* means literally "public worker" and was originally a common noun meaning "craftsman" or "artisan", but gradually it came to mean "producer" and eventually "creator" or "maker". Depending on the system, they may be considered to be either uncreated and eternal or considered to be the product of a supreme entity.

**Divine Object:** Zeus has access to an object that grants them divine/holy powers. They can range from source materials to apparel to fully-designed weapons; whatever the form, they can impart divine powers to those who lack them entirely or augment the already existing holy capabilities.

**Divine Weaponry:** Zeus is able to create and wield any kind of weapon of divine powers. The weapon can also grant Zeus special powers of any kind, make them invincible and even reach the same level of power of a deity making it possible for Zeus to hurt a god.

**Enhanced Combat:** Zeus possesses proficiency, capabilities and knowledge regarding general combat. Essentially, they would be extremely skilled in combat, beating the toughest of opponents or dozens of aggressors at once. Zeus would also be able to perform combat maneuvers and other stunts much more proficiently than the average person. They would be able to use their combat skills for both offense and defense and would also be able to utilize high-level combat techniques that would give them an edge over other combatants. Naturally, Zeus would also possess above average physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual attributes that would aid them or enable them to fight at an enhanced level. If Zeus possesses supernatural abilities (such as Fire Manipulation, Flight, Telekinesis), they would also be able to incorporate and utilize those abilities to either enhance their combat performance or to have high skill in using them in combat.

**Growth Manipulation:** Zeus can manipulate all forms of growth, including physical, spiritual, mental, conceptual, biological/organic, etc. They can increase, decrease, transfer, revert, invert, negate, the growth of anything, including of beings, powers, elements, concepts, etc.

**Age Manipulation:** Zeus can manipulate age of living beings or objects, causing them to rot and decay by aging them forward, or regressing them by aging them backward. This can be used offensively to decay oncoming attacks to nothingness, turn opponents to dust, or enhancing one's own attributes by entering into their "Golden Age".

## History

Zeus was born to Cronus and Rhea. He is the youngest of six siblings with his older brothers and sisters being Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. Cronus, out of fear that his children will overthrow him, swallowed all of them, except Zeus, who was saved by his mother Rhea.

When he reached manhood, Zeus freed his siblings from Cronus’s stomach. In one version, Metis tricked Cronus into drinking something that forced him to throw up Zeus’s siblings. In another version, Zeus cut Cronus's stomach open and freed his brothers and sisters one by one. After freeing his siblings, he released the Gigantes, the Hecatoncheires, and the Cyclopes, from their dungeon in Tartarus, killing their jailer, Kampe, in the process.

As a sign of thanks and a way for Zeus to defeat the Titans, the Cyclopes forged the Master Bolt and gave it to him. They also crafted the Helm of Darkness and a trident for Hades and Poseidon respectively. With the help of his siblings, the Gigantes, Hecatoncheires, and Cyclopes, Zeus overthrew Cronus and the other Titans, in a terrible ten-year war called the Titanomachy. When the war drew to an end, Zeus punished his enemies. Atlas was forced to hold up the sky while the rest of the Titans that fought against the gods were casted into Tartarus.

After the Titanomachy, Zeus divided Earth’s territories with his brothers Poseidon and Hades by drawing lots: Zeus got the sky, Poseidon got the sea, and Hades got the Underworld. The land was to be shared by all of them along with their sisters. While all seemed well at first, Gaea created the monsters Typhoeus and Echidna to overthrow Zeus as she was angry at how he treated the Titans. While Zeus defeated Typhoeus by trapping him under Mount Etna, he allowed Echidna and her children (most of whom would later be killed by the Greek heroes), to live.

When the Greco-Roman era ended, Zeus and the rest of the gods retreated to their palaces on Mount Olympus and observed humanity on their thrones.

## Myths and Legends

The name "Zeus" comes from the Proto-Indo-European term "Dyēus", while his Roman name, Jupiter, has a Latin origin; Jupiter comes from Iup (light in Latin and have his origin in the Proto-Indo-European word Dyēus) and Piter (father in Latin and have his origin in the Proto-Indo-European word ph₂tḗr).

## Quotes

*"Come, try me, immortals, so all of you can learn. Hang a great golden cable down from the heavens, lay hold of it, all you gods, and all goddesses too: you can never drag me down from sky to Earth, not Zeus, the highest, mightiest king of kings, not even if you worked yourselves to death. But whenever I'd set my mind to drag you up, in deadly earnest, I'd hoist you all with ease, you and the Earth, you and the sea, all together, then loop that golden cable round a horn of Olympus, bind it fast and leave the whole world dangling in mid-air. That is how far I tower over gods and men." - Zeus.*

*"Who would ever worship someone as abusive as Zeus is? You're ruthless to humans! Your crew is like the clash of the douches. Ruling over the Greeks: a people weak and frightened! I'd spit in your face, but you'd probably like it!" - Thor to the Olympians.*

*"I do what I want! I am the al-mighty Zeus! I dethroned my father Cronus and killed him with my bare hands. You insects do not even come close to his power and will likewise be destroyed by me." - Zeus to the Titans.*

## Trivia

* His name "Zeus" means "to shine" or "sky, heaven, or god".
* In Christian tradition, he is associated with Saint Barnabas.
* Zeus is said to be the biggest fan of the Proto-Indo-European Dyēus.
* Theologians have equated Zeus with Amun, Hadad, Thor, Perun, Indra, Perkūnas, Tinia, Zojz, and Sabaoth.