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According to ancient Greek mythology, Zeus (Ζεύς, Jupiter) was the Father and leader of the Olympian gods. Known by many epithets related to weather phenomena, such as “Αστράπιος” (Αστραπή = lightning), “Βρόντιος” (Βροντή = Thunder), “Νεφεληγερέτης” (Νέφος = cloud, he who brings on the clouds), “Ερίγδουπος” (Γδούπος = deep sudden sound), “Ικμαίος” (Ικμάδα = dew) to name a few, Zeus overlooked human affairs below from his throne in Mt Olympus (the tallest Mountain of Greece) and when he was displeased by their acts, he unleashed powerful lighting against them.
Severe thunderstorms are quite common on summer days, when massive amounts of warm, moist air rise into the atmosphere. The strong electric fields caused by opposite polarity charged cloud bottoms and the ground many times cause a discharge in the form of lightning, releasing tremendous amount of heat, light and energy (measured in tens of thousands of degrees and Amperes).
That was the case on the night of August 15th, 2020, when a massive thunderstorm was active not far away from Mt Olympus area (situated outside the field of view of the photo and to the left). I was fortunate enough to catch a lot of them with my camera shutter open for several seconds, but this particular one totally overexposed the frame. I was also fortunate to be far away from the storm!
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Zeus is the boss of our little herd. It's great that he's really nice. Rams are often aggressive and rough. He, however, is entirely the loving father. He can push the others when it comes to eating - but hey: everyone has to look after themselves...
Head from a statue of Zeus, marble, 1st C BCE. After a Greek original about 460-450 BCE. At the Exhibition "Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes", National Museum of Australia. Canberra.
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Father Zeus, protector of the weak, help me to be strong against my fears.
Father Zeus, protector of the wronged, help me to do right by all I meet.
Father Zeus, protector of the home, help me to safeguard those within my walls.
Father Zeus, help me to do what I must, be with me as I walk in the world.
Happy Caturday and RIP Zeus.
My son found the youngest of his 3 cats deceased in the house when he came home from work Wednesday. I really don't know the exact reason but Thanksgiving was difficult for the kids and us so we didn't bring it up.
That boy will be missed.
Apparently, the media intends to pull out the history of mankind, apparently, someone came up with the idea that Zeus is a fictional character created for comics, certainly, these dogs want to erase our memories.
This is what I know about Zeus:
Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter. His mythologies and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of Indo-European deities such as Jupiter, Perkūnas, Perun, Indra, Dyaus, and Thor.
Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. In most traditions, he is married to Hera, by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus. At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione, by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite. Zeus was also infamous for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many divine and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses.
He was respected as an allfather who was chief of the gods and assigned roles to the others: "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence." He was equated with many foreign weather gods, allowing Pausanias to observe "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men". Zeus' symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" (Greek: Νεφεληγερέτα, Nephelēgereta) also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East, such as the scepter. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand or seated in majesty.
The name of the god in nominative is Ζεύς (Zeús). It is declined as follows: vocative: Ζεῦ (Zeû); accusative: Δία (Day); genitive: Διός (God); dative: Διί (Dií). Diogenes Laërtius quotes Pherecydes of Syros when spelling the name Ζάς.
Zeus is the Greek continuation of * Di̯ēus, the name of the Proto-Indo-European god of the daytime sky, also called * Dyeus ph 2 tēr ("Father of the sky"). The god is known under this name in the Rig Veda (Vedic Sanskrit Dyaus / Dyaus Pita), Latin (compare Jupiter, from Iuppiter, which derives from the Proto-Indo-European vocative * dyeu-ph 2 ter), derived from the root * dyeu- ("to shine", and in its many derivatives, "heaven, heaven, god"). Zeus is the only deity in the Olympian pantheon whose name has such a transparent Indo-European etymology.
The first attested forms of the name are the Mycenaean Greek , di-we and , di-wo, written in the Linear B syllabic script.
Plato, in his Cratylus, gives a popular etymology of Zeus meaning "cause of life always for all things", due to puns between alternative titles of Zeus (Zen and Dia) with the Greek words for life and " because". This etymology, along with all of Plato's method of deriving etymologies, is not supported by modern scholarship, because they are the first who want to destroy mythology and history.
Diodorus Siculus wrote that Zeus was also called Zen because humans believed that he was the cause of life (Zen). While Lactantius wrote that his name was Zeus and Zen, not because he is the giver of life, but because he was the first of the children of Cronos to live.
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From last night's (16/12) thunderstorm over Athens, Greece. 14 lightning frames stacked. Rainshaft visible
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