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FAMILY
Gea asked the rest of his children for help, but only Cronos offered to save his brothers by defeating his father and rising to power during the mythological golden age.
In spite of this defeat, Cronos would need the support and permission of his brother Titan, since this was the first-born of his parents. Titan decided to give him the throne in exchange for Cronos killed all his offspring, this way, some day not too distant, the power would return to the titans.
According to other versions, it would be Gea who would disclose to Cronos that he would be overthrown by one of his sons.
Be that as it may, the fact is that from his union with his wife Rhea several gods were born, such as Demeter, Hera, Hades, Hestia and Poseidon. But these gods were swallowed by Cronos as soon as they were born.
So, Rea, desperate, asked Gea for help to hide the last of her children. The sixth of the gods, Zeus. Both hatched a plan hiding Rhea in Crete and causing her to give birth on her own. When Cronos found out, Rea gave him a stone wrapped in diapers, known as Ónfalos. Cronos swallowed it without looking if it was a child, convinced that his lover could not deceive him.
This is how Zeus was hidden in the cave of Mount Ida, in Crete. When he grew up, the god used the poison that his grandmother Gea would give him to force Cronos to regurgitate the contents of his sated stomach in reverse order.
When he freed all his brothers, he also released the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes, whom Cronus had returned to lock up in Tartarus after killing Uranus. They were in charge of forging the rays of Zeus, the trident of Poseidon and the helmet of darkness of Hades.
Finally, after a long war called Titanomaquia, Zeus and his brothers ended with Cronos, and so they divided the world and locked the titans, along with Cronos, in Tartarus. Thus, Poseidon stayed with the waters, Hades with the world of the dead and Zeus got, casting lots, sky and air.