For people who have been following me for a while, I understand that it is unusual for me to “drop off the map” when I’m in the middle of a sequence of blog posts that go together. I apologize for this latest one with a bit of an explanation. For some reason, still unknown to…
The focus for today’s post is on common offerings made to Zeus, both historical and UPG. Some of these are relatively easy to do in the modern era, where others are less so. In general, incense is usually acceptable to the Theoi. Zeus is primarily offered storax according to several sources, both ancient and modern.…
One of the things that I consider to be one of the biggest misconceptions about Zeus is that he is a philanderer and even a rapist. If you look at the culture in the Mycenaean and Pre-Classical Greece. you see that there are documented instances of males having multiple wives. This is in approximately the…
Variations in how Zeus is viewed by various areas of Greece is something that is interesting to a lot of people. And this is reflected in the various myths that describe Him. The variations begin in the story of his birth, because Crete is where Zeus was raised from infancy, but other stories don’t describe…
This is the second of my “catch-up” entries and discusses Zeus’ epithets and titles. Because Zeus has SO MANY, I will be discussing only some of them. The reason for the large number is that many of them are regional epithets or titles, so in this post I will try to focus on some of…
A few words of apology MUST accompany this entry and the next. I have begun classes at my local Community College this week and had not quite anticipated the amount of homework I would be doing. I will be trying to make sure that I do these entries BEFORE starting my classwork each day in…
As Zeus is the youngest son of Chronos and Rhea, he has five siblings. They are Hestia, Haides, Demeter, Poseidon, and Hera. He has five uncles and five aunts who are first-Generation Titans and he is the grandson of Ouranos and Gaea. He is also the father of Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Hermes,…
