According to Hesiod's Theogony in the beginning there was only Chaos. Dense darkness covered everything until the earth was born out of chaos and the mountains , the sea , and then the sky with the sun , the moon and the stars. Then Uranus and Earth came together and gave birth to the Titans. But Uranus was afraid 😟 that one of his children would take his throne. That is why he enclosed every one of them in the depths of the earth. But his son , Cronus , the strongest of the Titans , defeated him and became world leader. He married Rhea , he gave birth to two gods and three goddesses- Hades , Poseidon , Hera , Hestia and Demeter. But Cronus inherited the fear of his father and believed that one of his offspring would later take his throne. So when they were born , he swallowed them. However , Rhea was expecting a sixth child and fearing it would share the same fate with her other children , she secretly gave birth on a mountain in Crete and hid the newborn there. She named the child Zues. She also tricked Cronus into thinking he swallowed this child too , by giving him a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes , which Cronus swallowed thinking it was his newborn. The Nymphs took care of zeus and fed the baby with the milk 🍼 of a goat 🐐. When he grew up , Zeus found his father and tricked him into drinking a mixture of wine 🍷and mustard , which caused him to disgorge the contents of his stomach. Zeus' older brother and sister came out of Cronus fully grown! This is how the great Titanomachy began , the war between the Titans and the Gods , with Zeus as their leader. This titanic battle lasted for 10 years. The Gods defeated the Titans and threw them into Tartarus , a dark and gloomy place as far from the earth as earth 🌎 is from the sky. Then the Gods fought with the giants for the dominance of the world 🌍. The Gigantomachy lasted a long time as well. But the Gods were again victorious. Thus , Zeus became the ruler of the whole world and he and the other Gods settled in Olympus.