The 12 Olympians: The God Who Ate His Own Wife (UNTOLD Story)

🏛️ Subscribe for more legends: https://youtube.com/@TheMortalMyths Cronus ate five of his own children to stop a prophecy. Zeus overthrew him for it - then swallowed his own pregnant wife to stop a prophecy that her child would be stronger than him. He became the exact thing he destroyed his father for being, and not one god on Olympus said a word, because eleven of the twelve thrones belonged to his own blood. This is Part 4 of the Zeus arc. Part 1 - The War: https://youtu.be/3RltXvfXj6c Part 2 - The Monster That Almost Ended Him: https://youtu.be/0Vnat6UowDY Part 3 - The Gods He Buried Alive: https://youtu.be/Sy_tGnXfMfo In this episode: - Why Hades has no throne on Olympus, and why it is not the reason you were told - The lots the three brothers drew for the sky, the sea and the dead - Hestia, who refused marriage and took a hearth instead of a seat - The son Hera threw off the mountain, who came back and built their halls - Aphrodite, who in Hesiod is older than Zeus himself - Why there is no single ancient list of the twelve CHAPTERS 0:00 He Became His Own Father 0:51 The War Was the Easy Part 1:18 The Six Who Survived Cronus 1:44 Three Brothers, Three Lots 2:23 Why Hades Is Not on the List 2:49 Hestia and the Hearth 3:35 The Eight Thrones Zeus Filled 4:10 The Son His Mother Threw Off Olympus 4:52 Aphrodite Does Not Fit 5:40 What Each Throne Actually Came With 6:40 There Is No Single List of Twelve 7:38 A Throne Was Never About Power 8:05 He Divided the Map and Kept the Room 8:58 Thirteen Gods, Twelve Seats SOURCES Hesiod, Theogony 886-900 - Zeus swallows Metis, and Athena is born from his head Hesiod, Theogony 927 - Hera bears Hephaestus alone Hesiod, Theogony 188-206 - Aphrodite born from the sea, before Zeus Homer, Iliad 15.187-193 - Poseidon on the three brothers drawing lots, and on being Zeus's equal Homer, Iliad 1.590-594 and 18.395-399 - the two different accounts of Hephaestus being thrown from Olympus Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 21-32 - Hestia refuses Poseidon and Apollo and is given the hearth The Altar of the Twelve Gods, Athenian agora, c. 522 BC Greek and Roman sources are kept separate throughout. Where a story is later than Hesiod and Homer, the video says so on camera. So tell me in the comments - who would you take off the list to make room for Hades? Subscribe for new Greek mythology three times a week. 📩 Business: [email protected] #greekmythology #olympians #zeus #hades #hera #hephaestus #aphrodite #hestia #poseidon #athena #hesiod #mythology #ancientgreece #greekgods #mortalmyths #GreekMythology #Mythology #MortalMyths #AncientGods #Olympus