Zeus was born to the Titans Cronus and Rhea, youngest of six siblings. Cronus, warned he'd be overthrown by his own child,
swallowed each of his babies at birth. Rhea, desperate to save her last child, tricked Cronus into swallowing a stone wrapped in cloth
instead, then hid the infant Zeus away on the island of Crete, where he was raised in secret by nymphs and the goat Amalthea.
Once grown, Zeus returned and forced Cronus to disgorge his swallowed siblings — Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon.
Together, the six siblings waged a ten-year war against Cronus and the Titans, known as the Titanomachy. Zeus freed the Cyclopes
and Hundred-Handed Ones from the underworld, who gifted him his signature thunderbolt. With their combined might, the young gods
overthrew the Titans and cast them into Tartarus, and Zeus claimed the sky as his domain.
After the war, Zeus drew lots with his brothers Poseidon and Hades to divide the cosmos — Zeus took the sky, Poseidon the sea,
Hades the underworld. As king of the gods, Zeus went on to defeat the monstrous Typhon, a beast so powerful it nearly ended his reign,
cementing Olympian rule over the cosmos for good.