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Zeus

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The named chief sky and storm god of the Greek Olympian order. Not Jupiter as the Roman planet-named twin under one id, and not sky as a bare element.

Also known as Zeús

Hellenic religion

  • Zeus appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus seats Zeus among Greek cult, oath, and oracular speech throughout the Histories. A named zeus in that traveler’s speech, not Zeus-Ammon as the Egyptian historically_related_to row filed beside this and not a generic sky-god dump.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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  • Keraunos is sacred to Zeus.

    Hesiod’s Theogony has the Cyclopes give Zeus the keraunos — thunderbolt with thunder and lightning — as his own sky-weapon. A named bolt sacred to that god in the cosmogony, not a vajra and not Mjölnir.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

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  • Lightning is sacred to Zeus.

    Hesiod’s Theogony places lightning among the sky-fire the Cyclopes give Zeus for the Titan war. A named lightning sacred to that god in the cosmogony, not keraunos as the bolt-object alone and not thunder as the sound alone.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

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  • Thunder is sacred to Zeus.

    Hesiod’s Theogony places thunder with the sky-fire given to Zeus for the Titanomachy. A named thunder sacred to that god in the cosmogony, not lightning as the flash alone and not keraunos as the bolt-object.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

    sacred to · sourced · documented

  • Olympus is sacred to Zeus.

    Hesiod’s Theogony seats Zeus’s ordered kingship among the Olympian gods on Olympus after the Titans fall. A named mountain-seat sacred to that god in the cosmogony, not underworld as the below and not every peak dump.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

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Egyptian religion

  • Zeus is historically related to Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus repeatedly ties Zeus to the Ammon oracle and Egyptian Ammon speech without a published ammon entity to carry a god-to-god edge. A named historically_related_to meeting from Zeus into egyptian-religion for that Ammon link, not zeus-hellenic appears_in as Greek cult attestation alone.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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