However, the most common belief about who fostered Zeus suggests that Amalthea, who was sometimes displayed as a goat feeding him, raised the father of all gods and kept him hidden by making soldiers dance around the cave for Cronus to not to hear baby Zeus crying. In another version of the story Zeus rewarded the nymph who hid him form Cronus, namely Cynosura by giving a place to her among stars. While some myths told Gaia raised him, some told he was raised by a nymph named Melissa, some told he was raised by a family of shepherds to whom Zeus promised to protect their sheep from wolves. According to another myth the nymph that is believed to have raised him, Adamanthea hid him from his father simply by hanging him on a tree, suspending him in the air thus making him invisible to Cronus since he is the ruler of the heavens, the sea and the Earth. How Zeus was raised from here on until manhood was narrated differently in various myths. However, Rhea made a plan with Gaea (the goddess of Earth), fed Cronus rocks wrapped in some clothes making him think he actually swallowed Zeus and managed to hide Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida. According to the myths, as soon as Zeus is born Cronus wished to swallow him just like he did for Zeus’s brothers and sisters, namely Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia and Hades. He is the youngest son of Titan King Cronus and his wife, Rhea. Zeus is known in Greek Mythology as “the father of Gods” and “the chieftain of Gods”.
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