How did Poseidon survive being eaten?

However, in some folklore stories it is believed that Poseidon, like Zeus, was not swallowed by Cronus because his mother Rhea who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended to have given birth to a colt, which was devoured by Cronus instead.

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How did Zeus save Poseidon from being swallowed?

Poseidon was the last one to suffer this fate before Rhea decided to deceive Cronus and whisk the sixth child, Zeus, away to safety, after offering Cronus a rock wrapped in a blanket to eat. Once Zeus was grown, he gave his father a powerful emetic that made him gorge up the children he had eaten.

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How did Poseidon survive Cronus?

After being born, Poseidon was swallowed by his father Cronus because of a prophesy that said Cronus' children would someday overthrow him. Poseidon was eventually saved by his younger brother Zeus. Poseidon and his brothers, Zeus and Hades, went to battle with the Titans.

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How did the gods survive being eaten by Cronus?

Cronus then ate the rock. Rhea kept Zeus hidden in a cave on Mount Ida, Crete. According to some versions of the story, he was then raised by a goat named Amalthea, while a company of Kouretes, armored male dancers, shouted and clapped their hands to make enough noise to mask the baby's cries from Cronus.

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Why did Poseidon get swallowed?

Poseidon was the son of Cronus and Rhea, both Titans. Cronus lived in fear after a prophecy told him that one of his children would overthrow him. The prophecy, however, never told him which child that would be. Poseidon was born full-grown and after his birth, Cronus swallowed him.

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How Evil Was The Greek God Poseidon?

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How old was Poseidon when he died?

Semi-immortality: As a God, Poseidon is incapable of dying due to old age. He is very ancient, being older than the Big Bang (making him over 13.8 billion years old).

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How did Zeus not get swallowed?

Rhea was the wife of Cronus. Cronus made it a practice to swallow their children. To avoid this, Rhea tricked Cronus into swallowing a rock, saving her son Zeus.

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How is Hades alive if Cronus ate him?

When he was born, Hades' father Cronus swallowed him to prevent a prophecy that one of his sons would someday overthrow him. Eventually, his younger brother Zeus convinced Cronus to regurgitate his siblings, and Hades was saved.

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How did Zeus survive being swallowed at birth?

But Rhea, his wife, saved the infant Zeus by substituting a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes for Cronus to swallow and hiding Zeus in a cave on Crete.

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How many kids did Kronos eat?

He now became the king of the Titans, and took for his consort his sister Rhea; she bore by him Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon, all of whom he swallowed because his own parents had warned that he would be overthrown by his own child.

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What is Poseidon weakness?

Poseidon's strengths: He is a creative god, designing all the creatures of the sea. He can control waves and ocean conditions. Poseidon's weaknesses: Warlike, though not so much as Ares; moody and unpredictable. Spouse: Amphitrite, a sea goddess.

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Did Poseidon ever try to overthrow Zeus?

Together with Apollo, Poseidon tried to overthrow Zeus one time. However, Zeus was alerted and shot both gods with his powerful lightning. When they lost, Zeus punished Poseidon and Apollo by throwing them from Olympus, stripping them of their immortality, and forcing them to build the walls of Troy.

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What did Poseidon do to Medusa?

Medusa. The Medusa we know was raped by Poseidon in the goddess Athena's temple. Athena then punished her for desecrating her sacred space by cursing Medusa with a head full of snakes and a gaze that turns men to stone. Then, a heroic Perseus severed the serpent-headed Medusa, turning her into a trophy.

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Who almost ate Zeus?

Fearing he would be overthrown, Cronus swallowed his newborn children retaining them inside his own body where they could do him no harm. Cronus' wife Rhea saved Zeus by tricking Cronus into thinking a wrapped stone was their newborn. Zeus eventually grew up and defeated his father.

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How did Poseidon lose to Athena?

And Poseidon challenged Athena to combat. Zeus, however, demanded that the quarrel be submitted to the arbitration of the gods. Then the male gods sided with Poseidon, while the goddesses favored Athena. Since Zeus withheld his vote, the goddesses were in the majority so that Athena won.

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Who fed Zeus human?

Lycaon, in Greek mythology, a legendary king of Arcadia. Traditionally, he was an impious and cruel king who tried to trick Zeus, the king of the gods, into eating human flesh. The god was not deceived and in wrath devastated the earth with Deucalian's flood, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book I.

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Why did Zeus swallow Athena before she was born?

Athena (Minerva), the goddess of war and wisdom, had a strange birth. Her father Zeus (Jupiter) had swallowed his pregnant consort Metis (“wisdom”), because he was afraid she would bear a son who would overthrow him.

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Did Athena get swallowed by Zeus?

She was the daughter of Zeus, produced without a mother, so that she emerged full-grown from his forehead. There was an alternative story that Zeus swallowed Metis, the goddess of counsel, while she was pregnant with Athena, so that Athena finally emerged from Zeus.

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Who fed Zeus as a baby?

Amalthaea, in Greek (originally Cretan) mythology, the foster mother of Zeus, king of the gods. She is sometimes represented as the goat that suckled the infant god in a cave in Crete, sometimes as a nymph who fed him the milk of a goat.

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Was Hera ripped in half?

Kronos eventually discovered the plan and ripped Hera in half in his rage. Despite Zeus trying to help Hera during her healing process, she looked to Hades for comfort instead.

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Did Kronos rip Hera in half?

Although many, including Hades and Hera's mother Metis, disapproved of the plan, Hera insisted on going through with it. After Kronos discovered her deception, he was filled with rage. Finding her on the battlefield, he grabbed her and tore her in half. Her sacrifice allowed his defeat.

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Why can't Hades have a child?

Hades apparently loves to cook and is a good one at that. He is revealed to be infertile. As such, he is incapable of having children. Although he is unsure, he believes he may have lost his ability to have children after consuming the pomegranate fruit to become King of the Underworld.

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How many babies did Zeus eat?

To pre-empt any takeover he, therefore, swallowed all of his children: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon.

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Who tricked Zeus with meat?

So when Zeus decreed that man must present a portion of each animal they scarified to the gods Prometheus decided to trick Zeus. He created two piles, one with the bones wrapped in juicy fat, the other with the good meat hidden in the hide. He then bade Zeus to pick.

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How many times Zeus cheated?

Unfortunately, Zeus constantly cheats on Hera and he has done it over a hundred times, but in the end Hera always forgives him. But that does not make her angry and mad. This anger then goes to his sons and daughters as she takes her anger out on the children he has with the other mortals and deities.

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