Ouranos tries to kill his children by Ge, and Chronos rebels and dethrones him, the same pattern the Greeks told of Zeus and his father Chronos.
Ouranos has daughters named Astarte (Ashtoreth) and Rhea, and Dagon, "after he had found out bread-corn and the plough, was called Zeus-Arotrius".
In Crete there was even a story of the death of Zeus, his tomb being pointed out.
Donnelly lists the twelve gods of Olympus, after Murray, as Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Apollo, Artemis, Hephæstos, Pallas Athena, Ares, Aphrodite, Hermes and Hestia.
Donnelly writes that the land of the gods passed through a Golden Age and a Silver Age of peace, then a Bronze Age and an Iron Age, and was finally lost to a flood that Zeus sent as punishment.
Zeus determined to destroy the human race by a great flood.
These apples were a wedding gift from Gaia (Earth) to Hera, the queen of the gods, upon her marriage to Zeus.
It was usually served by Hebe, the goddess of youth, or Ganymede, a mortal youth who was granted immortality and made a cupbearer by Zeus.
This theme continued with Cronus and his son Zeus, who would later overthrow Cronus in a similar fashion.
The Gods desired at once to reduce their might and punish their temerity, but did not wish to destroy the human race; consequently at the advice of Zeus, each androgyne was hewn asunder, so as to leave to each half two arms and a pair of legs, one head and a single sex.
According to him, she was sent in mockery by Zeus to be a scourge to man:
In Hesiod, Zeus laughs and tells the smith god to shape a girl from clay and water.
Greek Mythology: The Big Three in Greek mythology refer to Zeus (king of the gods), Poseidon (god of the sea), and Hades (god of the underworld).
Verse 12: "Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker."
Verse 13: "The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them."
Similarly, Barnabas is associated with Zeus (Jupiter), often considered the chief deity.
The summit of mountainous Thrace received the name “Haemus,” and Apollodorus related the tradition of the Thracians that the summit was so named because of the “stream of blood which gushed out on the mountain” when the heavenly battle was fought between Zeus and Typhon, and Typhon was struck by a thunderbolt.
After Scorpius succeeded in stinging Orion, both the scorpion and Orion were placed in the sky as constellations by the god Zeus.