The Rise of a New King: An Echo

The Birth of Zeus from Alexandros Reneotis

              From the Theogony of Hesiod, one main event kept on happening. The overthrowing of the king. For some reason, they just can't accept that their reign is done. They do everything in their power to stop time or change how the prophecy goes. But a prophecy is a prophecy. The world works in mysterious ways but everything is already written. It may make some twist and turns but all will end up in same position. 

               It all started with Uranus and  his fear of losing his power to his descendants. He cast his children into the depths of the earth but the prophecy said  he will be overthrown so he will. With the help of his own wife, Uranus was gone. From the advice of his Mother, Gaia, Cronus took a sickle and castrated Uranus. But Cronus' fate wasn't really as different as his father. He shared the same fate as his father. Cronus sired several children by Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born, since he had learned that he was destined to be overcome by his own son as he had overthrown his own father. But when Zeus was about to be born, Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save him, so that Cronus would get his retribution for his acts against Uranus and his own children. This, Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete, handing Cronus a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he promptly swallowed.  

             The new king grew up with the help of grandma and ready to take his throne so he did. With just a glass of weird herb to get his siblings out, Zeus, the new king of the gods has risen.

               There were heaps of betrayals that happened in this story. Betrayal of own flesh all because of greed. Greed is powerful and that's why a lot of people are greedy. They want the power and the glory. For what? For bragging rights? For a pedestal? All of this will be gone bu just one second.  It is sorrowful to see how cruel the world can be. It is probably blinding, isn't it? All we see is the things we'll get once we are the end but we forget how many people we hurt in the process. And it's all because we only look out for ourselves.

                 One thing I can say the world now is to empathize, even just a little. Everyone has feeling and we seem to forget that all the time. The world will turn their backs against you if you continue to be be a bitter ghoul. Be a better person. Make a difference in the sad society we live in. 

References: 

• Explore Crete 2017, Zeus was born on Crete Available from: <http://www.explorecrete.com/mythology/zeus-birth.html> [31 October 2019]
• Cretan Beaches 2019, The Birth of Zeus Available from: <https://www.cretanbeaches.com/en/history-of-crete/cretan-mythology/the-birth-of-zeus> [31 October 2019]