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Individual:
ZEUS
King of the gods
ZEUS came to power by a combination of violence and trickery and, once established, his rule was permanent and unchallengeable. He took the heavens as his particular domain (his name appears to be derived from an ancient root meaning sky, suggesting that he was originally a sky god), while his brothers POSEIDON and HADES became lords of the sea and the underworld respectively. In one account his division of realms was made by drawing lots, but the supremacy of ZEUS was never doubted. He married and then swallowed METIS ("cunning intelligence"), who had helped him to defeat KRONOS, and with METIS inside him he could not be tricked or manipulated as he himself had tricked and manipulated his way to power.
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