Zeus is the supreme god and ruler of Olympus. He is known by many titles: Lord of the Sky, the Cloud-gatherer, the Rain-god and Zeus the Thunderer, all of which show which force of nature was considered tobe the most important in Ancient Greece - rain. In most other mythologies the "ruler-god" was usually associated with the sun, butin Greece the climate is hot and dry making rain the scarce, life-giving force. Zeus was the sixth child born to Croons and Rhea, Because Croons, ruler of the Titans and the supreme god at the time, was afraid that one of his children would overthrow him, just like he overthrew his father, Uranus, he swallowed his first five children - Poseidon, Hades, Hera,